The 26th of June 2011 was a dark day in the history of Club Atlético River Plate. After a complicated season, that day was when the club was certified to descend to Second Division after signing a draw at the Estadio Monumental against Club Atlético Belgrano. It was the first time that Club Atlético River Plate descended to the silver category. Two years later, Rodolfo D'Onofrio and Matías Patanian won the presidential elections and took over the Argentine club. That was the beginning of the rise of Club Atlético River Plate. "We gave River the institutionalization it lacked" and managed to pass from a revenue of 50 million to a "five times higher" one, said in an event where he was present Infobae. In December 2013, the Millonarios celebrated the presidential elections. The call to the urns resonated throughout Argentina, given the number of votes, the highest number until then. Rodolfo D'Onofrio took the throne and Matías Patanian took the position of vice-president. This Tuesday, 2nd of June, Patanian spoke about how he took over a club that was "with a huge burden" that comes with being in Second Division, in the Workshop International El Deporte en el Contexto Global organized by ICAD. "We took a divided club, with the River Plate family very scattered". To this was added the situation with the accounts. "The first thing we did was to unite the family. We are the club that gave Real Madrid Alfredo Di Stéfano, the one that gave Omar Sívori, Mastantuono, Julián Álvarez, Enzo Fernández, Aimar, Saviola, Demichelis, Gallardo, Ortega. Along with Barcelona, we are one of the main formers of players in the world", highlights the former vice-president of River. Therefore, they recovered great players who had passed through the team and placed them in various positions within the club's structure. All this to make River a family again. Once achieved, the next step was to recover the identity, "give River the institutionalization it lacked". They started working on marketing and professionalized the management, because "a civil association has to have a professional leadership". These movements came accompanied by results and an economic increase. "We started with a revenue of fifty million dollars, today River has a revenue five times higher". This management was also accompanied by a reform of the stadium, which, like Real Madrid, took advantage of the pandemic to carry out. They passed from a capacity of 70,000 to 86,000 people, becoming the largest stadium in South America. Although they want to expand it again to reach 101,000 spectators. Changes that were carried out in an adverse context, caused by Argentine football, where there is a league with thirty teams; television rights are ten times less than what our rivals, such as Brazil, receive; or the problems of currency and exchange rate, which complicate the operations of buying a contract. "But we feel proud of having grown in this sense". Now River has 350,000 members "who pay their monthly fee, which represents an absolute and incredible support for the club's coffers". A financing that allows them "to invest in football, infrastructure and generate a virtuous link".