Argentinean Football Is The New Al Capone

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The Argentinian season is going down like a mob boss.

Whether it’s the news, TV or make pretend video games, we’ve all heard it before: ruthless head of a criminal organization famed for murder, drugs, theft, etc. is brought down not by any of his heinous crimes, but rather by a white-collar crime along the lines of tax evasion. A typical Al Capone case, if you will.

Well ruthless Argentinean football wasn’t felled by its violent reputation on and off the field, but rather for its mounting debts.

The beginning of the season has been suspended indefinitely due to the fact that the clubs need money – it’s really the simple. And while it’s highly doubtful the season will be scrapped altogether, this will be some necessary time off to fix all that ails. Namely the toilets.

“The (Argentine) game is poorly commercialised, it’s obsolete … There are problems of infrastructure, the bathrooms of some clubs look like Kosovo,” he told reporters.

The problems are, of course, much larger than anything that flushes, amounting to some 300m pesos in debts or so strewn about the clubs. The heads seem to think it can be fixed with television revenue. It probably can’t. Because the problems are far greater than debts. It’s violence, corruption, fan-player interaction and so much more. Too much to name, really.

And they’ve made things worse by suspending the season, as you can see in the above video. But it’s a step in the right direction, and one which could serve to inspire the rest of South America as they struggle with one ridiculous incident after another.

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