Argentine football is a maze that even the many compatriots of Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi struggle to navigate. It is the sport that binds a polarised nation wrestling with deep economic problems, yet no-one seems entirely sure how its competitions actually work.
And who could blame them? From one week to the next, clubs can jump from a half-season league format to play-offs for a Cup or a Super Cup – and then, perhaps, to a second Super Cup. Yes, there are two.
“No-one understands it; everything changes all the time. The only logic is the power-building of the directors,” says sports journalist Andrés Burgo, author of several books on the nation’s main passion: football.
The latest change caught supporters off-guard, although fan
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