Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia and Marcelo Tinelli, with the unanimity of all the clubs, confirmed the agreement with the firm FSLA HOLDINGS LLC (Disney) for the television rights of Argentine soccer.
As he knew Infobae, the presidents of the AFA and the Professional Football Super League brought the negotiation to a successful conclusion and a legal dispute between the parties was ended. The agreement determined an extension of the bond with the unites for three years, in exchange for paying a consideration as goodwill.
The statement accessed by this medium ensures that “Having analyzed the proposals and submitted to the Executive Committee for consideration, it unanimously approved the offer letter presented by the firm FSLA HOLDING LLC”, and therefore rejected the one presented by a local cable provider for having the same lower economic conditions in relation to the one finally approved, in addition to not having sufficient guarantees.
In that sense, he remarks that Disney’s offer “It is more economically convenient for AFA, in addition to granting the withdrawal of the action and the right in relation to the mentioned legal disputes at no cost to this Association, empowering Mr. President (Tapia) to sign the necessary documents ”.
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“It should be remembered that AFA and FSLA HOLDINGS LLC were facing two ongoing legal disputes promoted by the latter by virtue of the termination of the contract made by the House. Due to the agreement reached, FSLA HOLDINGS LLC withdrew from the action and the right invoked by before the Commercial Court of First Instance N 24, Secretary N 48, both of the precautionary measure granted in the file entitled FSLA HOLDINGS LLC C / ASOCIACION OF THE ARGENTINE FOOTBALL S / PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE and that allowed it to continue broadcasting the matches of the Professional Football League despite the appeal filed by AFA, as well as the judicial mediation initiated under this name FSLA HOLDINGS LLC C / ASOCIACION DEL FUTBOL ARGENTINO Y OTHER S / ORDINARY -EXPT COM M29 / 2020 for an approximate amount of $ 92,700 million”Recalls the brief in relation to the aforementioned legal dispute, which was finally resolved.
“The progress of the negotiations regarding national audiovisual rights were permanently communicated and agreed between the President Claudio Tapia and the Head of the Professional League Mr. Marcelo Tinelli, together with their authorities and the clubs that participate in the highest category of our football. To this end, face-to-face meetings were held respecting the current health protocols on December 3, 2020 and December 11, 2020 (prior to the Executive Committee) in addition to several virtual meetings, ”he indicated.
The final date, and key to resolution, was on December 31, 2020. That day, “in a meeting through a virtual platform with the presence of all the clubs that make up the Professional Football League, a detailed summary of the negotiation and proposals regarding local audiovisual rights as well as the future collection of goodwill was made ”.
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It should be remembered that on October 30 of last year, in the run-up to the start of the Professional League Cup, later renamed “Diego Armando Maradona”, and that Boca ended up winning, Justice launched a preventive action and decreed that both the AFA as the Professional Football League “Refrain from performing acts, carrying out procedures and applying any measure” that prevents the Fox Sports company (under the orbit of Disney worldwide) to make use of the “Unlimited exclusive rights that you have and belong to”.
Said precautionary measure allowed one of the owners of 50 percent of the rights – the other company was TNT Sports-, to be able to join the broadcast of the matches of what was the premiere of the First Division competition.
That decision, signed by judge Horacio Robledo, came in the middle of the decision of the AFA and the LPF to promote the termination of the agreement signed in 2017 with Fox Sports, since they considered that there had been a breach by that company by not informing in a timely manner what was the merger with the chain ESPN, a company acquired by the Disney Group.
Now, the litigation has finally been left behind with the confirmation of the agreement between the AFA and Disney for the next three years of competition.
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