Miley, with Estudiantes T-shirt and click/web details
Politics has taken its toll in the open conflict between the Argentine Football Association and Estudiantes, the most typical expression of which was the harsh punishment meted out to the club, its players and its president, Juan Sebastian Veron, in the hallway with his back to Rosario Central. Javier Maile clearly sided with Pincha, posting photos showing the Peroja shirt on a Rivadavia chair and reposting an iconic photo of Carlos Bilardo hugging Osvaldo Zubeldia from the late 1960s.
Miley is a Boca fan but admits he is a fan of pool, especially because of his attachment to the results. In politics, economics and in general in the country’s leadership.
Sources linked to Estudiantes explain that for Veron, it is somewhat uncomfortable to remain associated with the libertarian faction in politics. Not ideologically, but because it puts him in a position he does not want for the club he heads: for Bencha to be classified as a “purple” club. Above all in a world, the world of journalism/media, which is strongly characterized by the paradox “SAD yes vs. SAD no”.
It is also true that in the midst of the loneliness left by his idol and president Bencha in relation to his colleagues from other clubs, the support – which he has not yet asked for – from the highest echelons of power strengthens him a little, and perhaps evens the balance. details.
It is convenient to return to a point. It is worth noting how radio and television programs insist on framing the confrontation between Veron and Tapia “Czech” with the logic of the struggle for the relegation of sports companies contributing to national football, which, by the way, is what the liberal government wants. But in the case of this particular conflict, this concept seems to have nothing to do with it.
The hall in which the Bencha players appeared was a gesture of rejection of the office trophy that the AFC had awarded to Rosario Central de Angelito Di María, as soon as the group stage of the tournament had ended without prior notice. On the other hand, Veron has never said that he intends for Estudiantes to become a SAD company, but he advocates injecting private capital into the entities to expand them and giving them priority, without them ceasing to belong to the partners.
Governments and AFA
Football in Argentina is about passion, intensity and people. For this reason, it is not new in this geography for politics to try to influence the AFC and its internal life in some way. In fact, Miley had intended to do so ever since he took office. let’s see.
President Raúl Alfonsín put great pressure on Bilardo to leave his position as coach of the national team before the 86th World Cup in Mexico. A stage in which the team was, strictly speaking, playing very poorly. There was enormous pressure on the Argentine Football Association at the time, headed by Julio Grondona, to remove “Narrejón”. Grondona resisted and kept Belardo. In the end, Argentina emerged champions, and Alfonsin even gave up the Rosada balcony for the team’s celebration. “Sorry Belardo” flag.
It was Minimism that began promoting joint-stock sports companies, under the slogan of modernizing them as the country was “modernizing” through the privatization of public service companies. Menem and Grondona were on good terms, but the football captain never advanced the idea even though, say football historians, he began to give more commercial interest to the entity on Via Viamonti.
K and football for everyone
The Kirchnerian government was perhaps the government most involved in football in the context of its battle with Grupo Klarin, which managed the television rights to the matches. It was Cristina Fernandez who broke this contract – citing commercial exploitation and lack of transparency – and launched Fútbol Para Todos. Thus, he turned televised matches into a communication and political tool for his administration, with intermissions in which only the actions of his government were announced (even opponents were attacked from there) and even the microphone operators had to be Kirchner’s fighters. Grondona maintained a very close relationship with the then president, now imprisoned on corruption charges.
With the death of Grondona, a section of K.’s government attempted to influence the appointment of his successor. Specifically, La Campora. They chose a revamped character: Marcello Tinelli, a man from San Lorenzo. It ended in an embarrassing and impossible draw, “38 to 38.” Justice later intervened in the AFA.
Macri and the Premier League
Mauricio Macri, who became a politician after leading the most successful tournament in Boca’s history, promoted the creation of the Premier League and was the first to really push – more than Menem – for progress with the SAD, in an unsuccessful attempt to reform the sports law. He received almost no support from any club, including the strongest clubs.
With Alberto Fernández, the AFC, with Tapia already at its head, was greatly strengthened, thanks to the contribution of the political sector that was ruling the country at the time and which fully influenced the internal life of the entity. To make matters worse, Leo Messi’s national team became world champions in Qatar, protecting ‘Czech’ from almost everything.
Fernandez’s famous tale is what prompted Scaloni’s team to go to La Rosada, seeking to capitalize on a victory that threw a crowd of five million people into the streets to celebrate. Alberto, who at the time was dreaming of a second term, believed he would receive a picture worth gold. But he never got it. Not by Tapia’s decision, but by the players. This, in short, may be the main factor that makes the game possible.