There was nothing to predict what happened on Tuesday night.. While it is true that there were top teams dissatisfied with the level of refereeing in the Professional League, leaders and coaches vented their frustration under their breath. Without too many outbursts. In a “cordial atmosphere”, as Argentine football managers like to say. However, the action of Pablo Dovalo in Central-Independent Barracksand his colleague Luis Lobo Medina in the VAR, shattered the existing tense calm. Because those who spoke were two heavyweights of Argentine football from the last decade: Carlos Tevezcoach of the Reds, and Sergio “Kun” Agüero, club idol. These are not men in suits, as until now, but rather footballers (or former ones) for whom fans paid tickets and went to the field. The weight of their criticism is much greater, because they have the support of their football careers, which even led them to stand out in Europe..
Beyond Dóvalo’s performance – he did not sanction a hit by Alexis Dominguez about Ivan Marcone who was in red and avoided two possible penalties against Independiente that he did not even review -, Apache did not remain silent at the press conference, as his fellow coaches usually do when a referee harms him. Instead of “I’m not going to talk about that,” Tevez said: “I spoke before the game. We already knew that we were playing against 14″, he protested at the press conference after the 2-2 in the Tomás Adolfo Ducó Palace, where Barracas acts as a venue. “But not like this… That much? Let’s see… you know that when you play these kinds of games (for the rival), you play with 14. You don’t play against 11. That’s what I told the footballers. This is very difficult”.
The one who picked up the gauntlet of public criticism was Pablo Tovigginotreasurer of the AFA and regular defender on social networks of the “Tapia management”the slogan used to praise the passage of Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia -precisely, leader of Barracas Central- by the governing body of Argentine football. Toviggino, from Rosario by birth and from Santiago by adoption, criticized Tevez from his Strange of you, while playing you committed jail offenses and they only ended in yellow!! I didn’t listen to you in some previous games either, which I reserve. Anyway, Wind Memory!!!“, lashed out the manager.
In four lines, he reminded the Apache of his kick to Ezequiel Ham in an Argentinos Juniors-Boca that ended with his rival fractured and in the operating room. He accused him of not having the analytical certificate that qualifies him as a DT and evoked his closeness to the former president Mauricio Macri, with whose family he partnered to build wind farms. That is, Toviggino, who played with Sergio Massa in the last elections and boasts of being a dolphin by Gerardo Zamorathe governor of Santiago, He brought politics into a discussion that, after Tevez’s words, was only about football.
El Apache did not remain silent and counterattacked, as if the exchange of letters on social networks and in full view of everyone were a soccer match. “It seems to me that so many comings and goings to pilar are making you lose a little bit, Toviggino. Apart from the collection of old and imported cars that you accumulate in pilar, you also have to bury the bags that you brought from Qatar and from the friendlies in China, memory ali baba“, Tevez criticized him, accusing him of having dirty money from the AFA and money from the team’s friendlies in China, played in 2023. A curious fact: Toviggino is, in reality, Claudio Tapia. But Tevez is careful and does not splash upwards. Apache has had a good relationship with the president of the AFA for years. The leader attended the current coach’s 34th birthday in 2018, for example. “Why can’t I go to a friend’s birthday?”Tapia defended himself in a talk with a radio program on that occasion. In addition, he sold the head of the AFA a house in Los Cardales. And Carlitos does not forget that Tapia was the the only manager who accompanied the team in the 2016 Centenario Cupwhen the AFA had a series of debts and there was not a single dollar available, post FIFAgate.
Tevez got a luxury defender. Just as when the two of them formed the forward line of the Argentine team and together put pressure on the rival defenders, Tuesday night witnessed the return of the Agüero-Tevez duo. Kun joined Toviggino’s statements and replied: “Before speaking, why don’t you explain well how the VAR works? Because the truth is you don’t understand anything daddy. Oh and what course do you have?“, demanded the former footballer, who will participate in a friendly with former Independiente glories on March 23. And he could be the kickoff for his return to the club, if the medical tests allow it.
President Javier Milei got into the story. Although he did not speak publicly about the arbitration issue, nor about what happened with Independiente, he did appear in a publication by graphic comedian Nik, in which he spoke about a change of era in the AFA. And he “liked” a tweet from user @Mileinnials that said: “Disembarking in AFA as soon as possible would be a good strategy, power also passes through there and much more than through other places. “You pull a thread and it jumps from everything and everywhere in AFA.” He did the same with another one from Nik: “Carlos Tevez, the PEOPLE player, came out with the top blocks, as appropriate. Chiqui Tapia and Pablo Toviggino, it was a matter of days until THE CASTA of football fell. “CRIMINALS.”
Nik’s tweet about the AFA that Javier Milei retweeted
Politics overrides arbitration rulings. Those close to Tapia know that mistakes often They become “favors” for certain clubs, close to power. And that the series of failures ends with undermine the prestige of an already discredited Professional League with 28 teams. In this sense, there are those who think that the weakest link of the entire power chain is one’s own Toviggino, fought low by several top clubs. In recent times, the man from Santiago criticized other figures on the networks such as Jorge Brito (president of River) and Juan Sebastian Veron (today vice president of Estudiantes de La Plata). Precisely, two entities that at some point turned their backs on Tapia’s AFA and that do not usually communicate with their eyes closed with the directives that emanate from the Ezeiza property.
Tevez, still represented today by Adrian Ruoccowas the emblematic figure that used Daniel Angelici to win the elections in 2015. More recently, there was even speculation about a Macri presidential formula made up of the Tano and the Apache. And now Carlitos directs to Independenta club chaired by Nestor Grindetti, former Minister of Finance of the City of Buenos Aires during the Macrista administration (2007-2015). He later became mayor of Lanús for the PRO, the party founded by the former President of the Nation. Politically, Tevez is Macri. From there we must also read what happened on Tuesday. The story will continue in the next arbitration ruling. For now, Tapia called this Wednesday the members of the AFA executive committee to a meeting for next Monday at 11 in the morning. It will be on the Ezeiza property that bears the name of Lionel Messi. It will be time to know where you stand.
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