translated from Spanish: ANFP: “It is impossible to reschedule the 24th date of the National Championship”

The manager of Professional Leagues of the ANFP, Rodrigo Robles, explained that it is impossible to reschedule the date 24 of the National Championship.Those national championship matches with the friendlies of the Chilean national team in October and stated that his schedule was released several months ago to national clubs.” The second semester in Chile is extremely complex and restrictive with regard to scheduling Chilean football and was one of the great challenges of the national programming board,” he told Radio Cooperativa.In that sense, he argued that there is a series of events that were develop in our country, such as APEC, COP25, the Copa Libertadores final, and other “elements that had been scheduled at pincipio of the year, which are the league of Primera B, the semi-finals of Copa Chile, the final morning of Copa Chile, all scheduled in the middle of the week “.” Some are alien to football, but part of the public safety of our country that is the one that provides the security service to our parties, the product of that work with this countless restrictions, at the beginning of July this programming was given to all clubs,” he continued. One glimpsed that it would coincide with the FIFA date, but there were no more spaces resulting from all the circumstances and restrictions of our country for the second semester, of the date left for the second wheel to have 16 matches, with one in the middle of the week” Said. He therefore noted that the impossibility of changing the programming “has nothing to do with a topic of judgment or purpose or will. It has to do with a topic of technical feasibility, because if something had been modified in the event that there was a space, that there is no space, one could not run one or two matches, it would have to run the full date.” Even in that period if we changed the full date, it would be scheduled between the date 14 and 16, for example, that at that point those dates would be scheduled simultaneously with a team that would have been champion, then it would be a chaotic situation, more subject to criticism. Unfortunately there is no other space, so it was programmed on that date,” he said. Finally he addressed the criticisms of the president of Cruzados SADP, Juan Tagle: “With Catholic we spoke, I spoke with ‘Tati’ Buljubasich -José María- last week, I explained the detail of what was happening and understood that the subject was understood”.” I offered to provide you with fine information with details of all the complexity of the second semester in Chile and said that it was not necessary, because i understood the situation, but well, President Tagle is entitled to express his feeling”,

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