The women’s saber team had just won the bronze medal at the Odesur games when the fencing master Luca Saucedo He took the microphone from TyC Sports and expressed his criticisms: “In the Odesur Games we won many medals. This time, for several factors, it could not be done. One of the factors is that they keep stealing 1% of our money“What was it about? The mobile phone contribution that stopped being charged in 2017 and has gone directly to athletes since 2009. “We don’t stake, we train”the snap and her statement went viral on social media.

“The self-financing of the Enard is not fulfilled by law. If the law is not followed, what is it? A robbery. And I say it: Lucas Saucedo, master of fencing -he explained-. Therefore, I ask the leaders to respect the law and give them back 1%.to me, because 1% belongs to all of them, to continue generating more pareto, Nativity scenes (by the fencer Belén Pérez Maurice, who was by his side in the interview), plus Lions. It is the only way “.

And he remarked: “The other countries are growing and we are left behind”. “Everything we did well. The miracle that Enard does with the little he has, I think if they come back we will have more Pareto, more Lions, more volleyball boys, more Belen. Excuse me but I’m overheated with that subject. Because it cannot be that a fencer of his stature earns what he earns, which is less than the basic basket. Excuse me, someone has to be … But that’s the only way I have to go public. We don’t stake, we train “, she stressed.

What is it about Lucas Saucedo, who became “famous” for having proposed live to Belén Pérez Maurice during the Tokyo Olympics?

It is a story that dates back to 2009when during the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner the Enard reads 26.573which established the constitution of the National High Performance Sports Body “as a non-state public legal entity intended to manage and coordinate specific economic support for the implementation and development of high-performance policies”.

Article 39 of that law established the methods of financing, which provided that “the activities and actions of the Entity must be financed with two resources: the one percent (1%) charge applied to the subscription price that mobile phone companies invoice their customers, net of VAT, which must be paid within 30 days of receiptand from the proceeds of contributions, donations, subsidies and contributions paid by natural or legal persons, state or private, and from all the resources that the national state can contribute.

The strategy worked in such a way that the best sporting results occurred in the Olympic cycle from 2012 to 2016. But in 2017 that 1% stopped being charged. In November of that year, on the mandate of Mauricio Macri, who also downgraded the Sports Secretariat to the Agency, that tax was removed and the Enard was financed with a voice, that is, the money has since come from the National Treasury. .

With the return of Peronism through the government of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández, the Sport Agency became a Ministryby Matías Lammens, but the telephony tax has not been recovered.

This is what Saucedo recalled and asked for in the midst of an international sports competition, the South American Games in Asunción, when the less popular sports – such as fencing – that brought so much joy to the country in the Pan American and Olympic Games, have visibility.