
While in Buenos Aires media headlines still link some unclear financial plans, Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia He didn’t waste a minute during his stay USA and had a busy schedule. He was there on Friday Washington for the group draw for the next World Cup, and on Saturday afternoon he saw Lionel Messi is dedicated to Inter Miami in the MLS.
Until then, there is nothing except what could be expected from the President of the USA Argentine Football Association. The surprise came in the evening when Tapia – as he spread with a message and photos on his X account – attended a dinner in honor of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk at the exclusive private club of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in Miami.
“It is an honor to be a part of Mar-a-Lagoas part of the tribute to Charlie Kirk. “I would especially like to thank Felix Lasarte for inviting me to this very important day,” the Argentine football boss wrote on his X account. And to attest to his presence, he attached three photos in which he appears accompanied by the aforementioned Lasarte.
The person who invited the San Juan native to the evening at Mar-a-Lago is an American lawyer of Cuban descent who specializes in land use and urban building code issues and took over in 2021 Trump National Doral – the golf club the tycoon runs in Miami – just as the current President of the United States was finishing his first term in the White House.
From then on, Lasarte earned a place in Trump’s inner circle by managing the billionaire’s affairs in Miami, and with the conservative leader’s return to the U.S. presidency, he eventually became “someone my father has great confidence in,” according to Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and the president’s son.
Double yellowa digital medium that usually coincides with the AFA’s positions and decisions contained numerous details about the evening in Miami and highlighted Lasarte as “adviser to the United States Intelligence Commission.”
According to this medium, which has good information about what was going on behind the scenes at Viamonte 1366, there was a lively dialogue between Tapia and Lasarte an invitation to the AFA’s top leader to meet with Trump in the White House before the World Cup.”