The thing is tangled on purpose.
Cornered by legal investigations, Tapia and Toviggino resorted to an old tactic: “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”
That’s what they care about. Confuse, distract, hide.
You complicated it. How do you hide 54 luxury cars, including a Ferrari worth more than $500,000, and seven collector motorcycles? How to disguise a villa of more than 55,000 square meters in the name of a pensioner and monotributist with ties to the AFA?
On this property, the police found, among other things, a bag with the AFA logo and the name Pablo Toviggino as well as a thank you plaque from the Barracas Central club. None other than Barracas, the Tapia team, favored by the referees to the point of scandal. Yes, it even seems like a gross joke.
By the way, another key name in the AFA disaster has escaped public attention for the time being: Federico Beligoy is the referee who gives the power triangle its final shape.
But let’s continue with the questions: How does Tapia hide his connection to Ariel Vallejo, the owner of Sur Finanzas and financier of dozens of clubs?
The financial company’s treasurer was arrested on Friday and refused to comment. He didn’t know what to say until someone advised him to state the obvious: “I followed orders.”
How does Tapia explain his close relationship with Vallejo?
Nothing, says the AFA statement released on Monday.
A long rant that doesn’t answer the question everyone is wondering, but tries to hide the names behind the institutionality of the AFAtake credit for the successes of clubs and national teams and appeal to political victimization.
They are persecuted by governments “Because we do it too well”they wrote without irony.
They say: “Even today.” They insist on portraying us as Peronist AFAwhen we were the ones who didn’t accompany the pressure to proselytize with our image.”
Then where does the Peronist AFA come from?
Perhaps this tweet from Toviggino before the last presidential election was influential: “It’s time to publicly support @SergioMassa. Every Argentine football club should demonstrate in defense of their institutions. NO TO THE SAD! No to the privatization of football.” Come on, dear Sergio, strong comrade. A country needs you. MASSA PRESIDENT.”
Or this other one from Chiqui Tapia after the provincial general election: “On this important day, I would like to congratulate @kicillofok and his entire work team on the overwhelming victory in the general elections. This result represents an important impetus for deepening the transformation of the province.” May the successes continue”.
Here, however, a reflection is imposed, which also becomes blurred in the confusion. The inexcusable thing about Tapia and Toviggino’s management is this They stole the Holy of Holies: the opportunity to experience football without suspicion and mistrust. Those in charge, coaches, footballers and fans know it and suffer because of it.
It’s not about being naive. Football has always been an area of distrust, but There was a space of faith that survived despite everything.
The fragile shared trust It was the one that Tapia and Toviggino broke.
Justice may or may not punish your possible personal corruption. They will have to explain their assets, which are difficult to justify. your problems.
But football is much more important. It is shared passion, the possibility of a single happiness, our paradise in the midst of so many hells.
It is what they took from us and it will be difficult and long to recover from it. No fan should forgive them.
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