The fight has to do with football, it is clear.
But it goes much further than Alexis Domínguez's attack on Iván Marcone, which was barely sanctioned with a yellow card.
Pablo Dóvalo's regulatory nonsense left an open wound in the AFA and exposed the internal one.
It is no coincidence that the protagonists of this scandal, which has been growing on a large scale since Tuesday night, walk on opposite paths.
Despite the friendship he has with
Carlos Tevez
, to the point of sharing birthday parties, one of
Claudio Tapia
's main objectives is the growth of Barracas Central, a club that promoted his career as a leader.
What happened on the Huracán field, then, is just a free sample of what has been observed in recent years,
a controversial arbitration
with benefit for the
Commissioner's horse
.
Claudio Tapia, president of AFA, and Pablo Toviggino, head of the Federal Council, the two heads of Argentine football decisions.
Dóvalo, who directed 24 games against
Guapo
with 60% of points obtained for Luna and Olavarría's team, is a supporting actor.
The fight unleashed by the Independiente coach and Pablo Toviggino, executive secretary of the baseball's mother house,
has a political background.
Born 44 years ago in Rosario, but residing in Santiago del Estero where his connection with football began, Toviggino was a member of the Normalizing Commission led by Armando Pérez, president of Belgrano, and in 2015 - after the infamous 38 to 38 - He set foot in the AFA with Luis Segura.
With close ties with Governor Gerardo Zamora, he built power at the head of the Federal Council that groups 220 leagues and 3,500 clubs in the interior of the country.
He is the executing arm of Tapia, who arrived at the hands of Daniel Angelici to the chair on Viamonte Street and survived the government of Mauricio Macri, aligned with Alberto Fernández and the Kirchnerist apparatus.
You have to read between the lines when Toviggino, who expressed
himself
via
The blow is for Tevez and, simultaneously, for Macri.
In 2016, the former Boca player bought a project to build six wind farms and two solar parks in Argentina.
The Auditor General of the Nation (AGN) opened a file on the issue in November of last year, not coincidentally, during election times.
Macri and Tevez are friends and Toviggino considers them enemies because the proposal that Javier Milei has for football is the arrival of Sports
Joint Stock Companies (SAD)
.
He is the old desire of the former head of Boca, who failed to prosper during his mandate at the head of the national Executive.
Close to the President of the Nation they told
Clarín
that “he is not aware” of what happened in Barracas Central-Independiente, but this morning he reposted Nik.
The cartoonist expressed on his social networks: "Finally, the day has come. They began to lose their fear. They are the caste of Argentine football, which they are destroying day by day. Carlos Tevez and Kun Agüero went out to cross Chiqui Tapia very hard and his right hand man, Pablo Toviggino. Chiqui "Mafia" and Pablo "Tobillera"... when is there coming a serious "audit" on the AFA's business? And the VAR? And the corruption of the referees? And the unpresentable Beligoy? The assets of these two boys? And the collector cars? And the negotiations of the "friendly" of the National Team? And the offshore accounts? And the front men? And the relationship with Sergio Massa "We must clean up the corruption of politics, and also the corruption of Argentine football. Get out!"
#GoodWednesday The day finally arrived.
They began to lose their fear.
They are the CASTE of Argentine football, which they are DESTROYING day by day.
Carlos Tevez and Kun Aguero came out to cross Chiqui Tapia and his right hand Pablo Toviggino very hard.
Chiqui “Mafia” and Pablo… pic.twitter.com/UdtLtC16hq
— Nik (@Nikgaturro) March 6, 2024
Milei supported Macri during the Boca elections, who competed as Andrés Ibarra's vice president against Juan Román Riquelme.
The former enganche ended up winning by a wide margin.
This is another friend of Massa, whom Toviggino publicly supported in the national elections that the former Minister of Economy lost at the hands of the libertarian economist.
How much will this strong relationship between Massa and Toviggino have to do with his appointment in the Chamber of Deputies?
According to the record accessed by
Clarín
, Tapia's right-hand man appeared until this Wednesday on the payroll of the Chamber of Deputies staff with file 801436 in the General Secretariat of the Presidency since April 2020. Yes, at the beginning of the pandemic and when the Tigrense was, precisely, the one in charge of the legislators' chamber.
He was never seen in Congress.
And, when the news broke,
Martín Menem's administration terminated his contract
.
Sergio Massa and Pablo Toviggino, united in the political background of Carlos Tevez's fight with refereeing and the AFA.
Tevez returned thick ammunition with the “buried” bags from Qatar and the friendlies from China, which were canceled due to a conflict between agents.
The AFA broke the link with
Guillermo Tofoni
, owner of World Eleven, the company that organized the National Team's matches and agreed with
Eduardo Beltramini
.
There is a claim in court regarding this issue.
Tofoni, precisely, is the one who approached businessmen to invest in Argentine soccer through Juliana Santillán.
A few weeks ago, he appeared with the deputy, Daniel Scioli (Minister of Tourism and Sports) and Nicolás Maya, executive of 777 Partner, shareholder of Genoa in Italy, Vasco da Gama in Brazil, Hertha Berlin in Germany, Standard Liege in Belgium, Red Star Saint-Ouen in France, Seville in Spain and Melbourne Victory in Australia.
Tapia opposes the arrival of the SAD and expressed it via the Executive Committee
, which will meet again next Monday or Tuesday, with the idea of disciplining the leaders or making a decision with the referendum?
Toviggino knows that Macri is behind the issue.
Also, that Tevez is his friend and that Independiente is headed by two active members of the PRO, President
Néstor Grindetti
(today head of the Buenos Aires cabinet) and
Cristian Ritondo
, deputy and head of the yellow bloc in the lower house.
The two met this Wednesday with Tevez, prior to the press conference in which they tried to lower the foam.
In front of the cameras, Grindetti was more political.
Carlitos, on the other hand, upped the ante.
The Argentine Association of Referees responded with a document letter for “slander, insults and incitement to violence.”
He wants to take the Independiente coach to criminal and civil justice.
Federico Beligoy
, head of the referees, is a Tapia man, but he is under the wing of Toviggino.
There is a collection of embarrassing referees that multiplied from the Amateur Regional to the First Division.
With the referees reporting to the AFA, the executive secretary has great power.
There are t-shirts that are heavier than others.
Also,
union preference.
After all, Beligoy is the secretary of the AAA and also the one who appoints the judges.
In that sense, five years ago he had a dispute with the SADRA led by
Guillermo Marconi
and which generated a series of protections in the Labor Court with compensation and job restitution for judges who did not want to leave the federal union.
This Wednesday, without going any further, the National Labor Court No. 34 ruled in favor of
Martín Grasso
, an assistant judge who has not been appointed since 2019. The AFA was convicted of “unfair practice” and must pay, among compensation, fines and coasts, a sum close to 5 million pesos.
"There are four power teams that should not be in the First Division: Barracas Central, Riestra, Independiente Rivadavia and Central Córdoba
," said Marconi, who pointed out to Beligoy: "You cannot be in the employers' association and in the union at the same time." .