The Argentine Football Association (AFA) is headquartered at Viamonte Street in Buenos Aires City, but the true address of power is not on Google Maps – it is a network of relationships, contracts, silence and decisions which for years worked without too many questions being asked. Until now.
Argentine football, world champions on the pitch, is going through its most uncomfortable time off the turf: court investigations, business complaints, political accusations and an all-out war over the control of the business. At the centre of the stage there are two names: Claudio ‘Chiqui’ Tapia, president of AFA, and Pablo Toviggino, treasurer and a key political player of the system.
There is no single case. There are several overlapping stories, with different players and goals which at times coincide and at other times do not. Some have been brought to court. Others sit at political desks.
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