Like in his football career Juan Sebastian Veron He likes to lead, he carries it in his personality, be it on the pitch, in the office or as another fan in the audience, and suffers like rarely from the climactic penalty shootout (5:4, after 1:1 in 120 minutes). students Champion of Final tournament.
His instincts lead him to act more like a shepherd than a member of the flock. In his time as an integral midfielder, he made the rest of the team revolve around his way of understanding the game, and now, as supreme leader of the Punmarrata, he sets the trend, sets the course and does not give up, even when opposed by the superstructure that contains his club: the AFA.
The “Little Witch”, a rebel with a cause, was a guest on the hot Santiago night on Saturday A champion president mingled with fans in the stands of the Madre de Ciudades Stadium. He traveled to Tucumán on a private flight with close friends on Saturday and from there continued overland to Santiago del Estero. Due to the six-month ban imposed on him by the AFA, he was banned from entering the pitch for the awards ceremony as they considered him an ideologue and responsible for it “back”the hallway turned around, which Estudiantes disapproved of Bach giant the income of Central rosary, a few days before suddenly consecrated by Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia Champion of the annual tournament.
An ad hoc desk title for the president of the AFA that he can use to particularly ingratiate himself Angel Di Maria and furthermore with a central rosary in accordance with Tapia’s general guidelines.
Verón could pretend to be distracted by this indignation and secretly think about his anger, but has decided to distance itself from an accommodating leadership, He cut into the complacent homogeneity of his colleagues to send a clear message: “Not that, that’s not how it works.” Even in the face of the unusual and disproportionate sanction of the disciplinary court, he did not remain idle. He has already announced that he will contact the national player Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) for assessing the disqualification as “arbitrary”.
After receiving the trophy from the hands of Wallthe captain Santiago Ascacibar He walked to the edge of the floor to present it to Verón, who accepted it to the cheers of the fans. “It was a nice gesture from the guys, some of them accepted me as a teammate. I didn’t expect it, it wasn’t necessary, I thank them because they kept an eye on me at that moment,” Verón told ESPN.
It continued on television, “at a meeting with friends”the semi-final victory in the classic against Gimnasia. Used to experiencing football from the inside out, he described the restriction of not being able to accompany his team as “difficult”. This Saturday’s success did not change his rejection of the AFA management model: “It’s nice to play finals, but the organization of the tournaments is quite controversial.”
As a team, Estudiantes have handled the pressure of being the anti-establishment representative well. All the hustle and bustle around him did not cloud his focus, as in the round of 16 he made every game an act of extreme concentration and confidence in his resources. He left behind along the way a Rosario Central that did not live up to the gracious distinction that Tapia granted him, a Central Córdoba controlled by the powerful Treasurer Pablo Tovigginoto a proud and resurrected Gimnasia and, to top it off, to this electric and volcanic race. Estudiantes on the field was an expression of his president’s beliefs.
The background of Verón’s confrontation with the AFA is that of a free thinker against the indoctrination and subjugation demanded by the two-member government of Tapia-Toviggino. La Brujita advocates the entry of private capital into football without ipso facto implying the transformation into a public company, a figure not allowed in the statutes of the AFA, which turns a blind eye in some cases where it is in fact an SA. Or how else can you think about it? Deportivo Riestramanaged by Victor Stinfale as if he were a majority shareholder combining football with his other company, the energy drink Speed? But since Stinfale is functional for Tapia, there is no culture clash.
Although he was a pioneer in incorporating private capital, Verón admitted that the experience with the American businessman Foster Gillett It was “a failed attempt”. Nevertheless, Estudiantes could rely on it Christian Medinaan important part of the football structure, thanks to the 15 million dollars that Gillett paid for the termination clause that Boca had set. Then Gillett’s financial inconsistency with the failure of the Uruguay project with Rampla Juniors led him to finally distance himself from Estudiantes. For Verón, it was the implementation that failed, not the model: “It may be that it was a failed attempt to achieve something that will come at some point and that must serve the health of the clubs, namely the injection of private capital.”
Tapia never came out to publicly confront Véron. That’s why he has Toviggino, his media arm on social networks, to discredit, insult and threaten anyone who disagrees with the AFA’s actions. And Véron’s character is important enough to fight him with big ammunition. After Estudiantes announced that there had been no vote at the meeting of club leaders that Tapia used to declare Rosario Central champions, Toviggino attacked Verón. He called it “Sir, Sir, Sir” (association with an English citizen), “Miamian” and “Cold Chest”.
In addition to making personal disqualifications public, Verón also expressed his fears about the harm Estudiantes could suffer through a practice that has been widespread for some time: partial arbitration, with decisions that function as rewards and punishments. This was usual until the perfect storm was unleashed on Tapia between his uncontrolled omnipotence to declare Rosario Central champion and the judicial investigations for alleged illicit enrichment based on his association with the Financier Ariel Vallejo. With Tapia needing to regain some credibility, the arbitrations suddenly became fair and without much room for controversy. Without a muddy or sloping field, Estudiantes eliminated Rosario Central and Central Córdoba, teams where the balance of referee successes and errors had worked in their favor.
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Verón is celebrating his third term as president third titleafter the League Cup and the 2024 Champions Trophy. As vice president, he won the 2023 Argentine Cup. In his first term as president, he dedicated himself to this Reconstruction of the first stadiumanother proud expert. There were no sporting successes back then. This Clausura is something very special. As a leader, he won the game that only he dared to play.
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