Overview
- River members vote on November 1 with five tickets on the ballot to succeed Jorge Brito, and roughly 87,000 are eligible to participate in a process set up for high turnout.
- Di Carlo says the stadium project is very advanced and would lift El Monumental’s capacity beyond 100,000, a scale he argues would set a continental benchmark.
- He claims the plan includes about 15,000 additional places to be added to the lower Sívori and Centenario stands for members in good standing.
- He insists the works would be financed with the club’s own resources and would not cut the budget for the professional squad, framing infrastructure and football spending as separate tracks.
- He calls a return to winning results the absolute priority and publicly reaffirms support for coach Marcelo Gallardo, whose contract runs through December 31.