“Let’s see! What’s going on here? why do you complain? I’m going to put them in prison!”roared with military authority before a group of eight people who were trying to access the Bombonera box for which they had paid, together, almost a million pesos to see the Argentine National Team compared to Uruguayfor the South American Qualifiers.
That same person who was vociferating as the boss of the stay in the box area, curiously, had been minutes ago on the playing field. She saw him next to Claudio Tapia in the delivery of recognitions to Lionel Messi y Emiliano Martínezas winners at the recent Ballon d’Or gala.
Everyone in the AFA and surrounding areas knows him as The Gaucho. This was how he presented himself to the stunned fans who saw how they had been deprived of their dream of seeing Lionel Messi and the Scaloneta from a privileged place for which they had paid a lot of money.
and who is The Gaucho? How he manages to step onto the playing field and, as if by magic, become a kind of VIP usher with commissioner skills. Better to go in parts. The Gaucho es Fernando Isla Casarespresident of the Ceremonial and Protocol Commission of the Argentine Football Association. And that’s not his only reference on his business card. He is also the head of the Commission of Rural Security of the Argentine Rural Society.
He was president of Students from Buenos Aires until shortly after the death of Julio Humberto Grondona and, even without being an active leader, he formed the self-proclaimed bloc “United Ascent”who supported Luis Segura in his fight with Marcelo Tinelli for power in the AFA and later catapulted Chiqui Tapia to the command of Argentine football.
Isla Casares, Dibu Martínez and Claudio Tapia, before the game.
He owes his nickname to his occupation as livestock producerbut mainly to his dress: He arrived at the building at Viamonte 1366 aboard a truck with details in pampa guard, always with remains of mud and he was wearing field pants, espadrilles, a work shirt and typical accessories of the country liturgy: passing handkerchiefs or gaucho knot, harrow for Hold pants or leather straps for keys.
Owner of a special charisma, he was often in charge of speaking to the press at the close of the Executive Committee meetings and although he presided over an Ascenso club, he exercised a portion of the power within the football structure that had Grondona as maximum responsible and owner of the last word.
He presided over Pincha de Caseros between 2010 and 2014. Before, he had been part of the Board of Directors and had managed to get the club to sign his son Patricio, despite the fact that the forward played in the First D for Central Ballester.
After ending his presidency, he continued to be involved – in different ways – in the day-to-day life of the AFA in moments of greatest institutional upheaval. He was present, for example, on December 3, 2015 in the AFA elections of the remembered 38-38, invited by the ruling party.
That year, the AFA had to install foam protection in several stadiums after the death of a San Martín de Burzaco player, Emmanuel Ortega, after being pushed by a rival and his head hitting one of the perimeter walls.
It was Santa Monica, then a business partner of the association, that was in charge of providing the mats. The Gaucho He was in that management without being a leader or employee of the company. A month and a half later, the former leader Carlos Abdoformer president of San Lorenzo, ended up being the supplier.
For some time now, he regained presence in the AFA but not in the role of director, but rather at the head of the Ceremonial and Protocol Commission, which among other issues has a fundamental role in those related to tickets. When you talk about “protocol entries”, that is, courtesy to the sponsors of the Selection and special invitations. There’s El Gaucho.
For Argentina-Uruguay he had repeated the same response to the leaders of various clubs: “There are no tickets for this match: the capacity of the Bombonera is smaller and there are no tickets left to distribute.”
During the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Argentine fans reported that the tickets available for official sale by the AFA were offered at higher prices than the official ones. The protocol for handling the entries had been drafted by Isla Casares.
As a rural producer, a few months ago he made the news for having bought 50 percent of a Braford cow at an auction at the Palermo rural exhibition. for 28 million pesos. He did it through his company Olazul, which supplies meat to the Penitentiary Service of the Province of Buenos Aires and also to the Argentine National Team every time it makes barbecues on the Ezeiza property.
2023-11-17 23:56:03
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