Trophies have a special place on the buffet Parque Telmo club, anchored in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Telmo. Orange flags with white lines decorate the façade and a varied national rock playlist plays. The preview gives a framework to the presentation of the bill for the emergency in neighborhood clubs, which mainly consists of the exception of fees corresponding to gas, electricity and water services, for 12 months. The document is signed Gisela Marziottanational representative for Unión por la Patria, and is framed in six articles that aim to be a shield against the high rates that put their social continuity in check.
The representative was present at this Buenos Aires club to give voice to the project. At the table she was accompanied by Nicolas Mantegazzamayor of San Vicente and founder of the Estrella del Sur club – competes in the new AFA category, Promotional Amateur -; Veronica Scarpatoleader of the Sports Secretariat of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), and Marcos Cianiprovincial director of Social Sports, among other leaders who were present at the event.
“A club is not just a sports entity, a place of leisure and recreation or an area of socialization. Neighborhood clubs are all that and much more. They generate identity, belonging, influence comprehensive training and allow it to be a place of coexistence between different people,” says part of the project text. According to the National Survey of Sports Clubs and Entities, prepared by the Argentine University Sports Federation (FeDUA), together with the National Universities at the request of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of the Nation, There are approximately 12,000 neighborhood clubs throughout the country..
In the middle of the president’s meeting Javier Milei with the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, to talk about different business models and financing of football clubs, the other side is this law that promotes putting on the agenda a discussion that is overlooked and highlighting the importance of social activities, in addition to sports, which are part of neighborhood clubs. And defend the articles of a project that reveals the possible arrival of public limited companiesanchored in whether or not non-profit clubs can face the accounts, and their management, and justify the need for them to stop being in the hands of the members so that the decisions are made by third parties or shareholder groups.
“It is a guarantee for the continuity of the great work that neighborhood clubs are doing,” Scarpato said about the law and highlighted that the articles that make up it “are extremely important for sports institutions.” “This project allows clubs not to close their doors and continue to fulfill their fundamental role,” he concluded.
The deputy from Unión por la Patria, when speaking, thanked the response of the people who came to Parque Telmo and regretted having to take this discussion to Congress. “It is a project that I would have preferred not to present because it indicates that what is happening is horrible,” she said and reinforced that this pretense of law “It is to contain the consequences of a government that hates everything: education, music, cinema, sports, athletes. Everything translates into hate politics. “They want to destroy with cruelty.”
“This is a project of love for the clubs, of love for the sport. That tries to give a hand so that they can continue doing and fulfill that function in each neighborhood. We have the responsibility to military love. That’s why we have to reorganize ourselves,” he concluded.
