Chiqui Tapia explained the reason for her new tattoo: because she has “Chucky” on her left leg

While in Europe preparations continue for a truly special season, the one that will lead to Qatar World Cup At the end of November, the president of the Argentine Football Association, Claudio Tapia, He took the opportunity to meet some of the Argentine national team players.

On a visit to Spain, where he went to be present at a tribute rendered Diego Armando Maradona as part of the Alcudia youth tournament, Chiqui was in Madrid and posted a photo on his Twitter account with Giovanni Lo Celso, Nahuel Molina, Angel Correa and Rodrigo De Paul. “With the guys from Scaloneta #Madrid”, published.

What caught the eye, and which took only a handful of minutes to go viral on social networks, was a tattoo that was seen on her left leg and is that of chuckythat doll that became popular in the nineties as the protagonist of a horror film saga that then became a television series.

This morning, in “De Acá en más”, a radio program broadcast by Urbana Play 104.3 and which has the presence of Guido BercovicThey said the reporter spoke with the president of the AFA on this matter and gave an explanation.

The motif of the tattoo

This is a cabal that started in the rush to America’s Cup 2021what Argentina would have ended up winning against Brazil at the Maracana, when Omar Souto, a supporter of the national team, gave Tapia a Chucky doll that belonged to his son, Juan Cruz, who is similarly nicknamed. He would have liked to give it to him himself, but the Argentine delegation at that time was in a health bubble, which is why he entrusted that task to his father.

The top manager of Argentine football not only accepted it, but also promised to tattoo it if Scaloni’s team became champion in Brazil, as has happened. And he was not the only one to leave that memory engraved on his skin, but also seven other members of the delegation, none of them players.

This isn’t the first football-related tattoo Tapia has done. Years ago, the boss of the parent company of Argentine football had the acronym of AFA tattooed on his chest, remembering the date he took office, March 29, 2017.

Alcudia and the homage to Maradona

In the match preview that the U-20 team’s Javier Mascherano beat Valencia, which allows him to position himself as the leader of Group A in the Alcudia youth tournament, “Chiqui” was present in the exciting tribute that was paid to Maradona and received from Eliseo Gómez, president of the Organizing Committee (COTIF), a badge that makes him an honorary member of it.

“This only strengthens the ties COTIF and Spain have with Argentine football. COTIF has always been a luxurious environment for us and now it’s a pleasure to have come with women’s football as well,” said Tapia.

The next rival for those led by the Little Boss will be Alzira, this Thursday at 5pm (Argentina time), who will look to move on to the next instance in the fight to repeat the title he won in 2018. Meanwhile, the women’s team led by Christian Meloni awaits Mislata or Alicante in the semifinals, Saturday to