Pablo Toviggino, Tapia’s right-hand man, celebrated Vélez’s victory with a message to the president of Talleres, Andrés Fassi

Vélez’s consecration leaves a lot of fabric to be cut in football matters, as happens after the end of a championship. But the other thread also appeared, politics. And since he likes to be at all the events, Pablo Toviggino, treasurer of the AFA, reappeared on the scene and rekindled the fight with Andrés Fassi, president of Talleres and, subtly, also sent a message to the national government for the Public Limited Companies. Sports.

As usual, Toviggino fired via Vélez’s victory might have postponed it.

“What a joy!! But what a joy. My family and friends from Gotham City all came to celebrate!! At dinner, NOODLES T . . . . . . . . Yes!! “I better not say anything because they get angry!!”, Tapia’s right-hand man wrote in the first part of his tweet. And he continued: “What a year, what a year!! Plagued with triumphs again and again. Law by law, tournament by tournament!! Oh, and he accompanied the message with a short video of a sketch by Alfredo Casero in the remembered Chá Chá Chá, in which the actor, dressed as Batman, uncovers a champagne and shouts: “Long live Perón.”

The first part of the tweet is directed at Fassi, with whom the AFA went to war after the president of Talleres denounced Andrés Merlos after the clash in the Malvinas Argentinas locker room area after the Córdoba team lost to Boca and was out. harmed by the aforementioned referee. Fassi also attacked the mother house of Argentine football and visited the President of the Nation, Javier Milei, at the Casa Rosada, in clear support for the promulgation of the SAD that the national government is trying to impose.

Almost a month after that episode with Merlos, the Disciplinary Court of the Argentine Football Association decided to suspend the president of Talleres for 24 months from exercising his position as a result of the incidents he carried out with the aforementioned referee.

The punishment, explained in a very extensive ruling that had more than 38 pages, was also applied for having “violated the AFA statutes” when Fassi tried to suspend the assembly of the Argentine soccer headquarters with a complaint to the General Inspection of Justice. without previously resorting to football bodies. From there a battle was fought and despite the fact that Fassi had not appeared in public for a while, Toviggino once again chose him as a target and once again made reference to him with the figure. of the “noodle noodles”, from the nickname of Talleres.

The second part of the tweet was dedicated to the national government. With the “forum to jurisdiction”, Toviggino showed his chest for the latest judicial decisions that ruled in favor of the AFA and gave validity to the October Assembly in which Claudia Tapia was re-elected as president and the relegations were suppressed. There was also a change of address to Ezeiza so that it could be placed under the orbit of the province of Buenos Aires, governed by a political ally such as Axel Kicillof. In turn, recently, the Federal Chamber of San Martín maintained the precautionary measure that suspends the effects of the articles linked to the SAD in DNU 70/2023 until the final ruling is issued.

Last week, indirectly, Toviggino had also been at the center of the scene when Central Córdoba, a team from Santiago del Estero, the province that sheltered the treasurer of the AFA and from which it pulls the strings of Argentine football, was champion of the Argentine Cup. They precisely beat Vélez 1-0 and the final was not without controversy, since the Liniers team was not charged with a penalty or a handball by goalkeeper Ingolotti outside the area. The referee was Yael Falcón Pérez.

Could that be the reason why no leader was present at the awards ceremony, apart from the president of Vélez, Fabián Berlanga? AFA sent the general director of the AFA, Gustavo Lorenzo. But neither President Tapia nor any member of the Executive Committee was present. Could they have feared receiving insults from Vélez fans?

“A big hug for all the people of Vélez and congratulations for becoming champion of the Professional League. Greetings to Fabián Berlanga and Augusto Costa, to the squad, the coaching staff, fans, partners and the entire Fortinero town. “Deserved title!” Tapia tweeted a while after the award ceremony.