Tonight’s friendly against Mauritania is not just another match; It is the board where an underlying war is settled. For the first time in years, the screen TyC Sports —historic partner of the AFA through Tournaments— will remain black. Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia’s order was blunt: the match takes place exclusively by DirecTV and Telefe. Behind the ball, a political and judicial revenge is being played that has the Clarín Group and the national government at the center of the scene.
Victor Hugo’s shield
Faithful to his style of “militant story”, Victor Hugo Morales It didn’t take long for him to go out to the intersection to shield the president of the AFA. In one of his usual dialectical “salads”, the Uruguayan journalist interpreted the exclusion of TyC as a “response to the insane attack” by Clarín. According to Morales, Tapia “hardened his skin” after having received more than 300 headlines linking him to acts of corruption.
He even went further to justify the judicial situation of Tapia, whom the judge Amarante He was prohibited from leaving the country for 60 days after inconsistencies in his travel declarations. For Víctor Hugo, Justice acts as an arm of the media holding company, and he ventured an epic hypothesis: he suggested that Tapia lied on his travel permits to “rescue” a gendarme abandoned in Venezuela by the current Government. A national hero narrative to cover an increasingly complex judicial front.
The “repeater” business
But the controversy does not end on the playing field. The inmate added explosive seasoning after an investigation by Emanuel Respighi in Page/12which Victor Hugo used to strike at the heart of libertarian communication: Manuel Adorni.
Despite the promises of austerity and “there is no money”, the Government would have disbursed 4 million dollars to Tournaments so that the Public TV can retransmit the DirecTV signal. However, the agreement is humiliating in terms of communication sovereignty:
- Public TV can only connect five minutes before and disconnect five minutes later.
- You cannot use your own narrators.
- You cannot sell your own advertising; all the money from state advertisements flows to the private head.
The game that was already lost
While the National Team shines on the field, another sport is played in the offices on Viamonte Street and in the Casa Rosada. “Adorni will have to explain why, after ensuring that football did not cost a peso, he ends up financing Torneos with ours,” stated Morales, in a turn where the defense of Tapia ends up being the ideal vehicle to attack Milei’s management.
Today, the TyC screen will be empty, but the air is more charged than ever. Between strange invoices, ghost companies and million-dollar deals under the table, the fan is once again left as a spectator at a party that he pays for, but that he cannot always enjoy.
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