Soccer and politics: which clubs are the main candidates in the PASO fans

There is no crack here, or at least it is smaller. The passion for football unites them all. And if there are differences between them in this plane, it is only because of the colors of the shirt. The eyes of the population are on them today, but ours go a little further, trying to know what has been the choice of some of the candidates, but when it comes to suffering and enjoying the painting of their loves.

Facundo Manes: River Plate

One of the most anticipated electoral disputes of today is the one that will take place between Facundo Manes and Diego Santilli in the province of Buenos Aires. But the distance is shortened if the subject in question is football, since both sympathize with River Plate.

Manes He showed conditions since he was a boy as a striker in the Club Compañía General de Salto, where he dreamed of being able to try himself in some big club, but then he realized that his path was in the studio.

A transcendent event in his life linked to football occurred on Sunday, March 9, 1986, just over two months after he turned 17. That afternoon at the Monumental Stadium, River beat Velez 3-0 and became champion of the 1985/86 tournament. The young Facundo entered the playing field to celebrate with his idols, fulfilling his mission, to the point of being portrayed in the magazine The graphic close to a monster like Enzo Francescoli in the middle of the Olympic lap. However, the party soon broke down as he was detained by the police and spent the night at the police station. Maybe that afternoon he came across somewhere in the stadium with Diego Santilli, who also celebrated twice: as a fan and for being the first title of his father’s management at the head of the institution.

Leandro Santoro: San Lorenzo

Since he was a child, he showed his passion for San Lorenzo. Born on June 11, 1976, when he was just a boy, he experienced the pain of descent in 1981 and the joy of promotion, just a year later. He had to wait, yes, until 1995 to see him champion in the first division, with the unforgettable consecration against Central in Rosario, only 14 days after having celebrated his 19th birthday.

He participated a lot in the Buenos Aires Legislature in the project so longed for by the fans of the Cyclone, which contains the Rezoning Law and encourages the possibility that the club will once again build a stadium on the mythical grounds of Avenida La Plata. Santoro always remembers that he worked for a long time with Adolfo Res, the main promoter of this idea that seemed like a chimera and that he has already taken the first steps.

Regarding this situation, he put aside the politician and showed himself with scarlet blue skin: “We went to the descent, they sold us the field, what they could never stop is to stop this fan. The first time I went to see San Lorenzo alone, I did it when we were locals on the Hurricane field… I remember going down the stairs and people crying. I couldn’t believe it and now we are very close to going home. “

Myriam Bregman: Students of La Plata

He was born in Timote, a city in the province of Buenos Aires that reached its relevance in 1970, when the body of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu was found in the La Celma farm, executed by the Montoneros organization, in a case that had the entire community in suspense. society, looming in disbelief at a decade of violence. Just under two years later, on February 25, 1972, Myriam Bregman was born there.

A fan of Estudiantes de La Plata, he has a phrase that he has repeated several times in relation to his soccer sympathy: “It makes me very angry when they ask me why I’m a student fan if I’m not from La Plata, because that’s reducing it to a neighborhood club and we’re not”.

She also related a very particular situation that she went through and that identifies her with that very particular DNA that identifies the Pinchas: “When I was about to give birth, I asked to know how Estudiantes were doing. If she had had a male child, perhaps she would call him Juan Sebastián, for Verón”

Javier Milei: Chacarita Juniors

In 1984 Chacarita Juniors enjoyed a return to the first division, after five years in Ascent football. It was a team with interesting players and they managed to have a good campaign, without having to think about the average table. In parallel, in the ninth division, a boy full of illusions and a fan of the club started playing as a goalkeeper, who today stands out for his thoughts and eccentricities: Javier Milei.

Asked about his soccer past, he recalled: “My grandfather was a fan of Chacarita and I went with him to the field. It was around those days in 1983 that the promotion was achieved and everything seemed epic and impressive to me. As a goalkeeper, I must admit, I was not bad, but I had other ideas and concerns for my future”

The relationship with number five lasted until 1989, when he finally turned to his new passion for a fact that ran through Argentine society: “I did not understand how prices were marked in supermarkets, if the books I studied said another thing. In fact, my first article was “Hyperinflation and the distortion of the markets.” In parallel, in the middle of that turbulent ’89, Chacarita suffered a new decline …

Diego Santilli: River Plate

On Saturday, December 10, 1983, the entire country enjoyed the long-awaited return of democracy in its streets and squares, with the inauguration of Raúl Alfonsín. The shock wave of the votes also reached the clubs, because just 24 hours later, the elections were held in Boca Juniors and River Plate.

In this last institution, the end of Rafael Aragón Cabrera’s long term as president came to fruition, who lost at the polls against a man who had been fighting for several years in internal politics: Hugo Santilli.

His son Diego was 16 years old and was already a fan of the red band, just as he is now, with renewed family passion. Like so many fans, he was able to indulge himself, under his father’s command, of being able to win the Copa Libertadores for the first time, an old wakefulness from River Plate. In each bite where the Colo is lit, you can see him wearing the shirt of his loves

But not only the inheritance from father to son was in the sports face, but also in the political arena, since in mid-1989, Hugo resigned from the top position of the Millionaires, because the newly elected President of the Nation, Carlos Menem, he summoned him to take charge of the Banco de la Nación Argentina.

Luis Zamora: Independent

He was always distinguished by a line of ideals that he pursues with the same passion of his youth. An austere life, which is endorsed in his actions and in the fact of traveling by public transport, plus the fact of not having accepted the retirement of privilege that corresponded to him as a legislator.

Once again he is running as a candidate, but without neglecting his legal profession. In the days before the pandemic, in another example of his way of being, he served his potential customers in a Buenos Aires bar, whose name is the antipodes of his football taste: “La Academia”, in Callao, almost on the corner of Corrientes.

Born in 1948, Zamora was able to see the Independiente teams in splendor that filled the showcases in the 60s and 70s, justly earning the nickname of “The King of Cups.” Bochini’s magic captivated him like so many Red sympathizers, until uyears later he stopped going to the field, when he observed how the brave bar entered in the times of Cantero as president, who had based part of his campaign on the fight against the violent.

María Eugenia Vidal: Boca Juniors

The former Buenos Aires Governor has confirmed her soccer love for Boca Juniors on more than one occasion. He even had the pleasure of working at the club at the time when Mauricio Macri was the president of the institution.

From there an anecdote related by her has emerged, where she mentioned that among her colleagues the owner of the entity nicknamed him Cartonero, a pseudonym that Diego Armando Maradona had given him in January 1996, when he had just assumed, since he wanted to reduce the income of the players on the squad: “I thought Berlusconi was coming and I ran into the cartonero Báez.”

Years later, a few days after assuming the governorship of the Province, she returned to La Bombonera, in the company of the then president Daniel Angelici, touring the museum and the facilities, but above all, giving herself the pleasure of stepping on the grass wearing the T-shirt. blue and gold, with his name and a number one on the back.

Victoria Tolosa Paz: Students of La Plata

Victoria Tolosa Paz heads the list of deputies of the Frente de Todos in the province of Buenos Aires, a territory she knows well for having been born in La Plata in June 1973, a place that saw her grow and form.

Belonging to a family rooted there, there was no doubt that his soccer preferences had to be for one of the two teams that divide the city and it was for Estudiantes.

In social networks, he has expressed his sympathy for the club, as happened in August last year, on a very special date for DJs, when he wrote on his Facebook wall: “Before the end of the working day, I want to refer to the club that paints the colors of my heart. Happy 115 years, dear Estudiantes de La Plata ”

He had also motorized a project in 2018 that was approved, to recognize in the City Deliberative Council, the institution and its heroes, on the 50th anniversary of obtaining the Intercontinental Cup against Manchester United in England.

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