The president of Gymnastics proposed to Chiqui Tapia a mixed model of private investment for Argentine football

The debate for Public Limited Sports Societies (SAD) rekindled in Argentine football and had an unexpected protagonist. At the last meeting of the Executive Committee held on the premises of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), where the strike on date 9 of the Apertura Tournament was ratified

, the president of Gymnastics and Esgrima La Plata, Carlos Anacleto, presented an alternative that seeks to overcome the rift: neither traditional SAD nor closure to private investment, but rather a hybrid model that he called the "Argentine system”.

Anacleto was categorical: he refused that his club could be transformed into a Sports Limited Company as proposed by the model. However, he argued that local football needs tools to attract capital

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His proposal contemplates the entry of investors through clear contracts, with specific rights and obligations, although without altering the institutional structure. Political and federative power would remain in the hands of the partners, who would keep the vote and strategic leadership. No company could appropriate a place or intervene in the internal electoral system

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The scheme is similar to the "50+1" rule applied in Germany, where partners maintain the shareholder majority and control of decisions. The intention, as the owner of El Lobo slipped, is to find a formula that combines investment with identity and that any transformation comes at the behest of the clubs themselves, not because of external pressure

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After the exhibition, surprisingly the unpresentable Claudio "Chiqui" Tapia was willing to discuss the initiative in the short term. There were no specific definitions, but there was an open door for the project to be formally addressed at the next Executive Committee meetings.

In a context where several countries in the region are moving towards business models, such as Brazil, the Gymnastics proposal seeks to install a third way.

The challenge will now be political: to turn an attractive idea on paper into a real consensus within a system that historically made the figure of the partner its flag

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