The last hours found Javier Miley busy in different issues of the national situation, but football slipped into his agenda. It wasn’t whimsical, it’s clear. For the President, beyond the fact that his main objective is the elimination of inflation and strictly maintain the policy of zero deficitthe passion of crowds is not alien to his government plan.
That is why between Friday and Saturday he spoke about the incorporation of the Sports Joint Stock Companies. And while the AFA received a response from Pablo Tovigginoright hand of Claudio Tapiabehind closed doors of the Ministry of Deregulation and Transformation of the State that he heads Federico Sturzenegger They prepare the adjustments to the regulations for the privatization (optional, of course) of the clubs.
Milei had already published a post on X, Elon Musk’s social network, with a graphic with the players of the Argentine National Team and their respective clubs, all supported by private capital. The graph, which was put together by the businessman Guillermo Tofonihad 6 million views.
Yesterday, in an interview with LN+, the President fired off: “For tomorrow’s final (for today), what do we do? We put all those who play in public limited companies or those who play in local clubs, come on, come on… What do we do? Let’s end the hypocrisy. The problem here is that there are jobs and they don’t want to leave jobs.
The corruption Milei talks about is the main concern of companies that are interested in investing in Argentine soccer. The President calculates, as he was able to find out Clarionwhich could enter between 2,500 and 3 billion dollars of investments. Of course, for that to happen, legal certainty is needed. Sturzenegger will be in charge of that, who already has in his possession the regulations that had begun to be developed four months ago with the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, and are updated to the reality of the clubs, which in Argentina are Civil associations non profit.
“When one looks the international performance of local clubs is bad, cannot be up to par, our stars are leaving younger and younger; Before they left at 17, now at 13. Unlike the authoritarianism of the AFA, which does not want there to be another corporate regime, we propose an open regime,” Milei added.
In the afternoon, Toviggino published an ironic message on X. He did so about a post in which Luis Caputo, Minister of Economy, explained the intervention that the Government will make on the financial market from tomorrow. “Ugh, what a mess, dude. I closed the week calmly, now that we are going to have SAD in Argentine sports and thinking that the gap had ended with the Dollar at 1,500 and the Country Risk at 1,510!! Anyway, I hope you have luck with the SAD and the Dollar!! Similar to One and Another!!”, he stated.
The AFA prohibited the figure of the SAD in its Statute and went to court to discredit articles 335 and 345 of DNU 70/2023. He did it through the Jump League. However, it remains in force and any club could opt for the new regime, if its members so wish.
From Viamonte they talk about a management plan, but they do not give more details. And although they believe that it will not be possible to implement the corporate system that works in Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, The Government is determined to go deep. It is not an issue that will remain in the pipeline, they warn, as happened during the mandate of Mauricio Macri.
In that sense, there were two important actors who arrived in Argentina. First, Javier Tebas, CEO of LaLiga of Spain. After, Sir Dave Richards, father of the Premier League. What’s more, the English businessman has ten North American consortia interested in investing in the country’s football clubs.
Fans complain on social networks. Most of them are scared by the model that works in Europe with some chiaroscuros. Resistance to change has to do with the leitmotif that “the club belongs to the members.” Of course, some are well managed and others, institutionally and sportingly collapsed.