The albos will debut on the first date against the recently promoted Deportes Copiapó and the traditional champions’ duel with the current Primera B monarch will not take place. From the ANFP they explain the reasons for changing the rival in the debut.
The 2023 season begins to take shape, after Colo Colo learned the fixture of the 2023 National Championship. The albos will go out to revalidate the title obtained last season and thus obtain a new two-time championship from the hand of Gustavo Quinteros.
But there was a detail that caught our attention and that is that The traditional duel of Champions will not take place on the first date that have always starred the monarchs of Primera A and B, who are currently the Chieftain and Magellan. This, because the debut will be before the other promoted to the division of honor, Sports Copiapó.
Why isn’t Magallanes played on the first date?
The albos had to face the Academy on the opening day. However, from the ANFP they explained the reasons for not playing the so-called Popular Classic, which will only be played on date 7 of the 2023 National Championship.
This is because Colo Colo and Magallanes will play the Super Cup on January 15 and they want to repeat the same match in a week. For this reason, they gave the winner of the Promotion League, in this case, Deportes Copiapó, the opportunity to debut against the current champion.
The confrontation between Popular and the northern team will take place at the Estadio Bicentenario Luis Valenzuela Hermosilla, a venue that He last visited in 1996, when the place was Regional Atacama.
