OPINION: Celebration or provocation? Specialists comment on Succar and his controversial celebration in the classic
What did the controversial character mean? The decision to remove direct promotion to the first division from the Copa Peru. Perhaps with the precedent that of the last ten champions - not counting ADT, the current winner who remains in the middle of the Liga 1 standings - only Carlos Stein (2019), Binacional (2017), and UTC (2012) remain in the highest category of Peruvian football.
The adjustments don't end there. The federation also announced that each club competing in the first division of the district leagues must have a maximum of four players over 25 years old. And in the second division, four players over 23 years old. "That new rule has not been well received because it will take jobs away from many players. In addition, every year they keep changing the regulations, making readjustments, it has never had a project, a path to follow," says Juan Andrés Fernández, journalist and director of "Desde la Cancha Peru", the media specialized in the tournament played in every corner of the country.
"I believe it is good to reengineer the Copa Peru, improve it, strengthen it. But if you only promote to Liga 2 (second division), then you also have to strengthen that tournament. Today, for example, it is not televised. So the entrepreneurs who invest in the Copa Peru teams will no longer want to do it because to reach the first division you have to go through a league that is not well structured, does not give you benefits, and in which you have to stay. It is very difficult like this," he adds.
The Copa Peru - the amateur tournament that brings together all the departments of Peru, which is only talked about in a negative way and the fact that Leonardo Rugel, one of the heroes of the classic, or Percy Liza, the last Peruvian to play abroad, took their first steps there - will no longer be a direct path to the Liga 1 starting in 2023. That is, this will be the last year that it will be, and the champion will surely go down in history.
That's why, next, we'll tell you what's next for the championship that is in its final stretch, in the national stage. There are only 50 teams left, departmental champion and runner-up, who dream of reaching the first division.
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