Overview
- River confirmed it will rejoin the AFA Executive Committee to present a public “documento crítico” at the committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 22, and said vice president Ignacio Villarroel will represent the club.
- The six-point package calls for a gradual reduction in Primera División participants and a rule that competition formats and regulations cannot be changed once a tournament is under way.
- On arbitration the document asks for objective criteria for referee appointments and creation of an independent committee to audit referee performance and remove discretionary decision-making.
- River proposes a root-and-branch overhaul of national and international TV-rights commercialization to raise resources while keeping a solidarity-based revenue distribution and also asks to realign the competition calendar and transfer windows with international standards.
- The move is a political re-entry after months of distancing and River says the changes should be debated collaboratively inside the AFA, though any implementation will require committee consensus and could affect club finances, scheduling and player transfers.