The AFA leader came out with the top caps, after the statement from Atlético Tucumán, due to Espinoza’s arbitration.
“Chiqui” Tapia and Pablo Toviggino, executive secretary of the presidency
After an official statement from Club Atlético Tucumán was released criticizing “the unfortunate actions of the referee fernando espinoza“, Paul Toviggino executive secretary of the Argentine Football Association, issued harsh statements on his personal account.
“How many Announcements and Statements!! The Communiqués are of a Military nature!! The only thing missing was that they number it and it looked good from the “period”. Surely they think they achieve something that way, right? How little they know and understand. BEWARE, THE ONE WHO ASKS OR CLAIMS THE MOST, DIES FIRST!! Memory Boys!!”, wrote the right hand leader of “Chiqui” Tapia in the AFA.
There are not a few who in Tucumán have read these words as a warning to Atlético.
Who is Toviggino?
National media point to Toviggino as “the man hidden in the shadows of Viamonte 1366: the man of power behind power.”
Infobae details that he has his office next to Chiqui Tapia’s. She is his point guard, his judicial and political arm, a quick and stealthy bishop to accommodate, with reach and federal penetration.
According to a publication by Infobae, he is the man who has judicial contacts with the permission of Angelici. A year later, during the government of Mauricio Macri, FIFA appointed him as one of the four members of the Standardization Commission and in turn treasurer. At the beginning of 2017, he denounced before the governing body of world soccer that the Regularization Committee was not meeting its objectives. In March of that year, Tapia became president of AFA and he became executive secretary of the Presidency.
In the halls of the AFA they agree that he is the one behind the referee appointments for federal tournaments or the First National.
An old conflict with another Tucuman team
In 2020, Pablo Toviggino, executive secretary of the presidency and future treasurer of the entity, denounced before the disciplinary court Roberto Sagra and, in subsidy, to San Martín, from Tucumán.
In his defense, the Tucuman leader presented 18 pages in which he denies having violated the Regulations for Violations and Penalties with his public criticism of the administration headed by Claudio Tapia.
In addition, Sagra counterattacked by rehearsing a fierce criticism of the way in which Tapia and his right-hand man, Toviggino, govern Argentine soccer: “The system of single thought, punishment and persecution of those who think against it, the coercion of club managers to align and respect the extreme due obedience, without allowing dissent or the plurality of ideas and concepts, are clear and manifest signs of a repugnant system with democratic and republican values”.
In his defense, the president of San Martín accused the AFA of having taken action against the club and its leaders for their critical position in relation to promotions and relegations. After presenting a document of more than 80 pages to request that the AFA executive committee change the differential criteria for promotion and relegation in all categories, the Santo from Tucumano took his claim to sports justice: the Sports Arbitration Court (TAS). , located in Lausanne, Switzerland, gave him until the 27th of this month to present his foundations. And he also rejected the request of the AFA to anticipate that date.
“It is evident that if the administrative proposal of San Martín had not existed, the alleged victim would not have felt aggrieved [Toviggino]since the absolute will of the administrative body had been complied with [AFA]Sagra reasoned.
