Controversies continue in AFA: Hospital Penna reports a debt of more than 100 million from a charity match for the floods in Bahía Blanca

Almost one year after the terrible floods in Bahía Blanca, Hospital Penna sparked a strong controversy that involves AFA led by the mafioso Claudio "Chiqui" Tapia. The institution stated that it still hasn't transferred the full amount of the money raised in the charity match between the senior Argentina national team and the U-20 team.

Although the governing body of Argentine soccer reported that the full proceeds would be used to assist those affected by the storm, the head of the hospital's cooperative association, María del Carmen Martí, stated that 108 million pesos (238,099 pounds) of the total are still owed.

"They told us publicly that it was 701 million and we received 593, we don't know what happened", she pointed out in an interview with Radio con Vos. The representative stressed the need to leave an administrative record of the situation: "We in the cooperative association have to record in the minutes what happened. If they don't return it, they should write a note stating that they kept it, we have to record in the minutes what happened".

Martí also said that they made phone calls and sent formal letters to obtain a response. According to her account, AFA told them that "they were going to take care of it", but as the months went by, there were no explanations or concrete updates.

Despite the seriousness of the claim, she ruled out moving forward through legal channels: "We aren't going to go to court. We value the help that the players gave us. We have to keep the accounts clear", she stated. She added: "We want to make it clear that it's a problem that AFA has to solve, not us", as she warned that the lack of that money could generate unfair discontent from the community toward the hospital.

The claim remains open and, for now, without official responses that clarify the fate of the missing multimillion-peso charity amount.