“The club belongs to its people”, the responses of Boca and River to Milei’s proposal

After the expressions of Javier Milei in favor of the Sports Joint Stock Companies (SAD)various Argentine soccer clubs They came out to respond and demonstrate their position. Among them, the Boca Juniors Athletic Club issued a statement in this regard, in which it ratified its “character of non-profit Civil Association”.

“Faithful to its origins, respectful of the clear principles defended for almost 120 years, Boca Juniors ratifies its character as a non-profit Civil Association and the premise that our club belongs to its people, members that make it bigger every day,” the club published this Saturday on the social network

“Convinced of the transcendent function that clubs have fulfilled in Argentina for more than a century, Boca Juniors speaks out against any initiative that implies its privatization or sale“added the La Ribera club in the statement.

In this framework, the xeneize club joins an almost total repudiation by all Argentine soccer teams of the idea of ​​privatization and the public limited company model proposed by Javier Milei in radio statements.

Argentine soccer clubs reject Javier Milei

The rejection exploded after the libertarian’s statements about sports corporations (SAD) went viral. Before journalist Alejandro Fantino, Milei highlighted “The English model of public limited companies is not doing badly. The question is how to finance it. Public limited companies, in fact, have publicly traded clubs and everything.”

When asked by journalist Alejandro Fantino about the possibility of a club like Boca or River passing from the hands of the members to the hands of “Arab or French capital,” Milei questioned: “Who the hell cares who it is (the owner) if you beat River five to zero and you are world champion? Or do you prefer to continue in this misery that we have with increasingly worse quality football? “How do we do every time we go outside Argentina?”

Hours later, clubs from all divisions of Argentine soccer expressed, directly or indirectly, their rejection of the proposal floated by the La Libertad Avanza candidate.

River Platefor his part, pointed out that “following the spirit of our founders, We reject public limited companies in Argentine football, as our Assembly ratified in 2016 when the Super League was established. The River Plate Athletic Club is a non-profit Civil Association, and will always belong to its members, who are the support of these 122 years of Greatness.”

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San Lorenzo, Racing, Independiente, Rosario Central, Newells, Argentinos Juniors, Belgrano and other historic first division teams also showed their criticism of the presidential candidate’s proposal.