Juan Sebastián Verón returns to office with the Sports Share Companies and warns: “No one will buy Estudiantes”

Juan Sebastian Verón put the possible arrival of Sports joint-stock company (SAD) to Argentine football, promoted by the President of the Nation, Javier Milei, through the “mega DNU” sanctioned at the end of last year.

“No right of a sports organization may be prevented, hindered, deprived or infringed, including its right of affiliation to a confederation, federation, association, league or union, according to its legal form, if it is recognized in this law and in the complementary rules”, he highlighted article 335 of the decree, which was deactivated after an injunction presented by the Jumping League, accepted by a federal judge from Mercedes and subsequently confirmed by the Federal Chamber of San Martín.

Verón, unlike the vast majority of Argentine football managers, was open to receiving private capital. “The first thing to do is look at the bad examples of companies, not the good ones. If we look at the civil societies that have failed in Argentina, there are many. Maybe in the future we can have some kind of discussion with a more armed proposal. We must abandon our fears and plan an ever bigger club,” he concluded Small witch After taking up his second term as president of Students from La Plata.

And now he talked about it again. “I’m not talking about foreign capital, but about capital that helps the club. It will ensure that every fan who has a business and wants to get in touch with the club can do so with their cards on the table to clean up their finances or contribute”, he said in dialogue with Cielosports, a program on FM Cielo 103.5.

“What we need to discuss is what we need to break out of the box. It seems to me that every club, at the beginning, should have the possibility to ask itself how to create a joint-stock company. I don’t even think that there should be a system for Argentine football: the River or Boca are not the same as Vélez, Banfield or Estudiantes. Each club must discuss and find its own scheme. We must not be rigid and go to extremes, we must simply discuss because there is a lot to be said in the middle,” added the Pincha idol.

An example of this can be found in German football, where the issue was regulated by art “50+1”, a rule in force since 1998 which states that more than half of the clubs’ shares must come from the club itself and its members in order to compete in the Bundesliga.

Verón, however, distances himself: “I don’t like copy and paste and I don’t think it works. If we think that our championship will be the German one… we are very far away as a country. In Argentina the system is worn out. The legal and management framework must help. “It’s useless for us to bring something that breaks after two or three years and everything comes back, because no one will want to come and invest.”

And he abandoned his ideal. “It can be a hybrid or mixed system, where both things coexist. Nobody wants a club like the one we have. Nobody will come to buy Estudiantes, but it will be a football partner, yes. “Imagine improving the pensions, improving the facilities… Most of the players we bring to Inferiores come from other clubs, from other locations and they have at least 20% of that player.”

And he concluded on the matter: “We have to cover up the situation. We can’t play dumb. If I had the chance or was under pressure I would have done it, I won’t let the company fail. If the fan or member accompanies me, I will Who am I to object?

Fassi accompanies Verón

Andrés Fassi, the only owner of a first division club who is not in favor of the ban on sports joint stock companies in Argentine football, has once again insisted on his position. “Argentina is the only country in the world where SADs are not accepted. I believe that in a football like Argentina, world champion and with a great moment of leadership, accepting foreign resources to strengthen our clubs is a decision in favor of the AFA,” he told Futbolético, on Showsport de Córdoba.

“It would be very positive if we gave the opportunity to those who want to be SAD and if they can grow in that structure, they can do it. I respect the fact that 98% of clubs want to continue to be non-profit companies, but that they allow those of us who “We want to be a SAD. I would like to hold a plebiscite for members to say their opinion on the future and whether they agree to change the statute,” she added.

“We went to Sao Paulo and the managers couldn’t understand that the clubs receive two million dollars for television rights in Argentina. In Brazil the one that receives less is 30 million dollars and Sao Paulo, being an important club, is close to “There is a structure that managers need to grow and we need to give it more value. We need to generate a tournament that can be sold internationally. Here there are more than 15 million members in the football package, but all this doesn’t work for football, which remains in a parallel sector. The clubs generate little in relation to what they generate”, explained the Cordoban leader.