Argentine football chiefs back the AFA: “We’re all behind this leadership” | OneFootball

The celebration of the Alumni Awards at the Lionel Andrés Messi Complex brought together various sports leaders. Representatives from top-tier clubs, lower divisions, and federal football united behind the association's figure. Details.

This Wednesday night, a new edition of the Alumni Awards took place at the Lionel Andrés Messi Complex in Ezeiza. The home of the national team served as the venue for presenting the prestigious awards to journalists, leaders, athletes, and coaches in various branches of football, futsal, and beach soccer.

Before the first award was presented, the leaders present in the venue, from both the First Division and various lower divisions and federal football, lined up behind Marcelo Achile. The president of Defensores de Belgrano and current titular member of the AFA structure took the microphone and delivered a speech in defense of the Argentine Football Association.

“The AFA and our beloved clubs are suffering a very complicated attack from the media. It is an opportune moment to show ourselves united. To show solidarity, camaraderie, and why we support the association. When we started, the AFA was under complex intervention, and the clubs were tremendously in debt. The worst moment was during the intervention; the clubs were on the brink of bankruptcy and disaster. There was a union reflected among all the clubs from the Interior and AMBA, expressed in a leader who is ‘Chiqui’ (Claudio) Tapia,” Achile commented.

The leader emphasized that they are all “behind this leadership” and described as “immeasurable what is said in the media.” “Let them say what they want because they do not understand the regulations or passion. They do not understand what our National Team means. There is a political background where they come for something else, they come for clubs, to do business. Anonymous societies have the underlying objective of making money. We, the Non-Profit Civil Associations, have the common good. Day by day, we put our soul into the club to move forward,” he stated.

“To not lose our history and our idiosyncrasy, we needed this expression. Let any government come. We are here supporting (Pablo) Toviggino, Tapia, and all of us, who will stand up for the Argentine Football Association.”

True to his style, Javier Milei took advantage of the Estudiantes corridor to fire shots at the AFA and its leadership. In recent hours, the president used his personal account to join a post made by Federico Sturzenegger, Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation.

The Minister prepared a supposed “report” pointing out Tapia and the refereeing decisions in favor of Barracas Central: “DEVASTATING RESULT,” wrote the State head, accompanying the title with “the work in question demonstrates with hard statistics the irregularity in refereeing that many whisper about and no one denounces.”

Far from getting involved in his work matters, Sturzenegger was concerned about the dissemination of a document that “would demonstrate” that Barracas Central “receives 8% more favorable decisions and 28% fewer unfavorable decisions,” posted the Minister, accompanying the statistic with a “link.”

The Minister's post attacking the AFA leadership would not be a coincidence Is it a “revenge”? It is worth noting that at the end of October, his father, Adolfo, made a ridiculous comparison between the economy and the Monumental.

That absurd comparison of the “shantytown” of River's stadium reached the AFA, which, through its Treasurer, Pablo Toviggino, responded with a spicy post also calling for the renewal of Peronism.

“The Fruit does not fall far from the Tree. What a lovely idiot this guy is. Exactly like the Son. Deregulation?? You and your Son, Deregulated have the head, the brain!!!”, wrote the leader of the main house.

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