News of football clubs

Milei’s strong peso revives domestic football with million-dollar contracts

Today 15:35 President’s peso policy has domestic clubs spending big; More than two dozen players now make US$1 million or more a year.

Football in Argentina

Estudiantes embark on spending spree with US billionaire’s support

09-01-2025 21:23 Estudiantes have arrived to shake up the hornets’ nest with a series of audacious transfer bids, bankrolled by billionaire US national Foster Gillett, in a financial offensive which has dragged the conflict around private ownership of clubs back onto the agenda.

by Dan Edwards

FOOTBALL & POLITICS

AFA calls elections with ‘Chiqui’ Tapia seeking third term

03-09-2024 17:38 Head of Argentine football’s governing body, fresh off the back of World Cup and Copa América triumphs, will seek a third term in October elections; Move comes as President Javier Milei seeks sweeping changes to structure of the national game.

FOOTBALL & POLITICS

Milei’s sets collision course with AFA in club ownership row

23-08-2024 14:41 A conflict is brewing that could tear the nation's game down the middle. President Milei’s government is bent on imposing a new club ownership model that would privatise sporting institutions, but its arguments for the change do not stand up to scrutiny.

by Dan Edwards

SPORTS OWNERSHIP BATTLE

Milei orders AFA football authorities to accept privately owned clubs

15-08-2024 13:50 New government decree signed by Javier Milei advances move to introduce private limited companies into the local football ecosystem; President gives AFA, federations and clubs one year to change statutes and allow "sporting corporations" into league pyramid.

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Can underdogs break up Superclásico dominance of Argentina’s top flight?

09-08-2024 13:04 In a cash-starved league like Argentina's where player and coaching turnover is at astronomical levels this by definition gives the Buenos Aires heavyweights the advantage almost before a single ball is kicked.

by Dan Edwards

FOOTBALL

Agüero allies himself with Milei, says City Football Group interested in Argentina

08-04-2024 15:30 Sergio Agüero, proclaiming the privatisation model for nation's top football clubs, has spoken with President Javier Milei. Tipping his former club Independiente as an option, the ex-Rojo star says the City Football Group are interested in Argentina.

by Agustín Colombo

FOOTBALL & POLITICS

Leaders of local football offer explicit support to Massa

17-10-2023 13:54 AFA President Claudio Tapia not only shows his support for Sergio Massa’s presidential candidacy, he also predicts in public that the economy minister will be Argentina’s next head of state. With the return of tax exemptions for clubs serving as a key message to the local leaders of the national game, the Unión por la Patria leader continues to develop his power-base in domestic football.

by Agustín Colombo

News of football clubs

Milei’s strong peso revives domestic football with million-dollar contracts

Estudiantes embark on spending spree with US billionaire’s support

AFA calls elections with ‘Chiqui’ Tapia seeking third term

Milei’s sets collision course with AFA in club ownership row

Milei orders AFA football authorities to accept privately owned clubs

Can underdogs break up Superclásico dominance of Argentina’s top flight?

Agüero allies himself with Milei, says City Football Group interested in Argentina

Leaders of local football offer explicit support to Massa

Milei vows ‘monopoly’ probe as Telefónica sells to Clarín

Milei’s strong peso revives Argentine football with million-dollar contracts

Argentina’s economy beat expectations again in December

Latin American classics get the streaming treatment

Hundreds attend special mass for Pope Francis in Buenos Aires

Horacio Verbitsky: "Alguien está extorsionando al Presidente con revelar datos de la estafa $LIBRA"

¿No eran buenos los monopolios? La trama detrás de la "guerra" entre Javier Milei y Clarín

"¡Se acabó la tortura!": Sturzenegger mostró fotos de los electrodomésticos de su casa para defender una resolución

$Libra: quiénes están detrás de Cube Exchange, la empresa que habría firmado el contrato con Javier Milei

Javier Milei enfrenta a Clarín mientras Karina exige limpiar los archivos de $Libra