Scaloni’s words expose Chiqui Tapia who, with the National Team, hides the disorders in Argentine football | Cuyo’s diary

2023-11-23 00:52:33

It was a shock in Argentine and world football. Lionel Scaloni’s statements about his possible departure from the coaching staff of the Argentine National Team, ended up uncovering a series of problems that, presumably, are experienced inside the world champion team and that They point directly to the president of the AFA, Claudio Chiqui Tapia from San Juan. All the success achieved by the “Scaloneta” in the last two years ended up covering up the decline of Argentine soccer with terrible refereeing, dubious promotions, elimination of relegations and maneuvers that ended up dirtying the most popular sport in the country.

The truth is that the early morning of Wednesday the 22nd will be marked by fire for Argentine soccer lovers. It was not a title won by any means but after a historic victory achieved by the last world champions against archrival Brazil and at home, it ended with the least expected ending: the continuity of Lionel Scaloni – perhaps the most beloved coach of recent times – is in doubt. The press conference ended and the radio broadcasts continued until several hours later in the early hours of Wednesday morning. It was there that “little rags in the sun” began to emerge about the possible reasons that led “Leonidas de Pujato” to put the football country in a state of sleeplessness.

Scaloni’s “internship” with the president of the AFA has been rumored for some time, but logically when the present is successful it is better, or more comfortable, not to uncover the pot. But since everything in life has an end, that pressure cooker finally ended up reaching its maximum point due to Scaloni’s sayings. With a no small detail: he sought to tell them, he alone said what he said.

Although the national team coach did not give the reasons, they emerged. First, the wear and tear with the leadership comes as a result of the renewal of his contract, who stretched a lot more than he thought after becoming world champion in Qatar. Furthermore, Scaloni could no longer stand – according to what they say – that they did not listen to him when it came to making decisions, as when more than once he expressed his refusal to go to play friendlies in China, but Tapia, due to assumed commitments – economic – still arranged them and The world champions had to cross the world to go play on the Asian continent.

Another point of conflict points to the prizes, they claim that Scaloni only collected the Copa América prizes months ago and they were paid in Argentine pesos and that the World Cup prizes have not yet been collected, which would have caused annoyance to the coach.

A TEAM THAT TURNED THEIR BACK ON POLITICS

The crisis that the country is experiencing was decisive in deepening Scaloni’s tense relationship with Chiqui. The differences between the two over politics were more than evident. They were visible to the whole world when Argentina became world champion and While AFA sources announced that the team would go to take the Cup to Casa Rosada, the team was categorical in its decision not to go and the celebration was only with the Argentine people.

These differences in thoughts continued, so much so that recently Tapia had publicly expressed his support for Sergio Massa and that was the determining factor. Even the day after the October general elections, a viral note detailed: “AFA celebrated Massa’s triumph,” attaching a note from Massa and Pablo Toviggino, Tapia’s right-hand man and the visible face of the Federal Council. One week before the runoff, From AFA the order came out and Toviggino with a post on networks lowered the line to the clubs almost forcing them to demonstrate against the Sports Joint Stock Companies (SAD) after the statements of Javier Milei in the campaign. The Argentine soccer clubs, as always, heeded the message but Chiqui’s order was also for the National Team to also publish something. Scaloni refused and did not make any comments, not even in the press conference prior to facing Uruguay when he preferred “not to comment on the subject.” when a journalist asked him about his position facing the runoff.

In the midst of these short circuits between employer and employee, another thing that generated the DT’s anger was a request from Tapia in recent days, prior to the elections: According to journalist Gustavo Grabia, the boss asked the players to take a photo at the Ezeiza property with the minister and candidate Massa. That ultimately did not happen.

Gustavo Grabia says that Massa last week asked Chiqui Tapia for a photo in Ezeiza with the players and they refused to do so. Tapia’s pressure reached Scaloni and many say that this is the reason for Scaloni’s statements yesterday. ..�� pic.twitter.com/E13xAivYh7

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November 22, 2023

THE DECLINE OF ARGENTINE FOOTBALL COVERED BY THE SUCCESS OF THE SELECTION

The successful present achieved by the Argentine National Team since winning the Copa América in July 2021, which continued later with the “Finalísima” and the “Qatar World Cup” In addition to restoring happiness to a country, he also ended up covering up the bad moment of Argentine football. Different fraudulent maneuvers with a tinge of favoritism for some clubs with arbitrations that are increasingly worse, with dubious promotions and elimination of relegations when the tournaments are already being played or even, until they are finished, ended up staining football and leaving a lot of fabric to be cut in each of the categories.

-PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE CUP:

The tournament that brings together 28 teams in the First Division was almost stained by the lack of seriousness with which the leaders took it. The well-known phrase “what is written with the hand, is erased with the elbow” was applied perfectly by the AFA of Chiqui. In the middle of the year it was decided to cancel a relegation when the tournament had already started to benefit some. The number of teams is viewed in a complacent manner by the younger ones, who see a possibility of playing in First Division, but the older ones understand that the only thing a tournament like this does is resign competitiveness: “The big leagues are 20, no more” , they assure.

-FIRST NATIONAL:

A case similar to what happened in the First Division. Although the Regulations stipulated that there would be three relegations, just five days before a tiebreaker was played between Almagro and San Telmo to decide who was going to face Tristán Suárez to settle the third and final relegation, AFA resolved to modify the regulations and annul it through resolution No. 6379. Logically, these three teams celebrated. Shameful.

-FEDERAL “A”:

Much more shameful than what happened in the higher categories was what happened in the Federal and that touched San Juan fully in 2023. It was Sportivo Peñarol the team from the province that entered the scene. A leadership intern between its president Oscar Cuevas and the rest of the leadership resulted in two teams with two different technical teams training at the same time in the preseason. Cuevas, a friend of Tapia, did not have decision-making power at that time but he turned to the president of AFA so that the Federal Council could decide which team was going to play and it was Chiqui’s friend who won the fight, leaving an entire team without work. during 2023.

With the tournament over and four teams relegated as stipulated in the regulations, a new life came for the teams that did things wrong on the field and the elimination of two relegations led the four relegated teams to cross each other to determine to the two relegated who finally ended up being Peñarol and Liniers de Bahía Blanca.

Of course the thing doesn’t stop there. Transcendents affirm that in Chimbas they know “from their sources” that both Peñarol and Liniers will be invited to play in the Federal “A” 2024, which would be another stain for Argentine soccer.

-REGIONAL AMATEUR

With the slogan of the “most federal tournament in Argentine soccer” this year the Regional Amateur Tournament is being held with the participation of almost 400 teams from the country competing for only four promotions. Yes, a butcher shop. A draining tournament for the coffers of the clubs that end up melting down the institutions with fields where it is practically impossible to play and with players who play soccer practically for free.

It became clear when a “Meeting of country leaders” was held in San Juan at the Cantoni where there was almost no talk about the situation that soccer in the Interior is experiencing, but the event ended with Tapia’s speech announcing the subsidy of 5 million for each League that competes in the competition. The leaders responded with pure applause, almost denying the reality that is being experienced and settling for a figure that is not even close to covering the costs required by the contest.

Separate paragraph for arbitrations, which in all categories generate controversy every date. They are not all of course, but most of the time their failures end up favoring some and punishing others, when really the one who ends up losing is football.

Of course, this decline does not come from now. The poor organization of the tournaments practically caused the provincial clubs to end up almost in ruins. We will have to go back a long way in time since Tapia’s assumption of the AFA where in his presentation he said that he took over to “federalize Argentine football”, something contradictory if you take into account that the first measure he took was the elimination of the Federal “B “, causing the clubs that fall from the Federal “A”, semi-professional category, to end up falling into a void, as represented by the Regional Amateur.

Now what will happen to Lionel Scaloni in the National Team? Nobody knows but it is almost a fact that they will try to convince you to continue. What is a fact is that Scaloni’s statements served to uncover a pressure cooker due to the terrible management of football. and for political issues that have nothing to do with the sport that an entire country is passionate about. Chiqui Tapia, who until 24 hours ago was unquestionable by an entire country that thanked him for the world title, began to be in the twilight, now repudiated by those who have already removed the blindfold and were able to see the reality that Argentine football has been experiencing for a long time.