The political noise also came to the renewal of Carlos Tevez’s contract. It was something that was handled in the shade, a secret between the parties, but that in the end ended up going on stage within hours of ending the club’s formal relationship with the Apache. The cards are clear: Tevez, since 2015, plays, speaks and moves in favor of Daniel Angelici, who brought him back to the club and with whom he established ties; in the other side, Jorge Bermúdez -faced macrism for a long time- and its direct, almost violent ways.
So, despite the words at the end of last week, when Carlitos spoke almost with a naif script that seemed calm, the questions ended up coming to light. In the extension of Tevez’s contract, the sports issue is not only at stake, which can yield on the field with the captain’s tape and Boca’s “10”. Behind are old grudges that politics could not hide.
It is comforting that there are independent media without compromises that approach the subject with tact and coherence. The truth always prevails where the lie makes many efforts to appear. https://t.co/6IY6Znimn6
– Jorge Bermúdez (@patronbermudez) June 28, 2020
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It was Bermúdez who brought it to the surface, with a tweet and a link to the political file site, in which it is marked that Carlitos It may be Angelici’s political flag in the next elections. The article even talks about Tevez having to testify in a case about investments in wind farms. And it mentions former President Mauricio Macri.
Was the Pattern who decided to make it known in the midst of a difficult economic negotiation between the club and the footballer, with comings and goings with many differences. In times and amounts.
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“It is comforting that there are independent media without compromises, that approach the subject with tact and coherence. The truth always prevails where the lie makes many efforts to appear”, was the tweet that Bermúdez launched when referring to that note.
The door was left open for Bermúdez’s unnecessary dart due to the note that Tevez had given at the close of last week. “In the future I can think about being president …”, Carlitos had said after differentiating himself from the current leadership of Jorge Ameal, despite marking that he has a respectful relationship with him.
Carlos Tevez, with Boca’s chair. Credit @isabelchapur.
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Theories about Tevez as Angelici’s electoral flag are not really new: it happened in 2015, when the Apache He returned from Italy and was shown next to the candidate who was reelected in the club. Venturing from today to the next elections seems rushed, despite the fact that two political actors, at the time, claimed Carlitos: José Beraldi (candidate in the last elections) and Christian Gribaudo (Angelici’s man).
The political mud muddied a negotiation that already had counterpoints between what Tevez was asking for (through his representative) and what Boca was offering. Because first Carlitos’ agent asked for 18 months of bonding, with a large sum of money for the current economy. Boca’s counterproposal was a good salary, but with an extension of 12 months, plus 6 to complete the Copa Libertadores.
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Then the 36-year-old said in public that he wants to stay until December and assess whether to stay with the club, retire, or go to Corinthians or West Ham. For the Football Council, the captain must stay beyond December, because it is not known when the ball will roll again and the Libertadores are likely to end in January or February 2021. In addition, they want to prevent another renegotiation from happening in between of the competition and, finally, they consider that if the sports evaluation is done in these months, it will be complex because of how the athletes will return.
Public crossings between Bermúdez, Cascini and Tevez damage a relationship that was sustained by commitment and that ended with the captain as a figure, champion and scorer of the last Super League. That is why the club understood that on the field they had deserved to extend their contract and retire with the Boca shirt. Then, of course, the economic issue began, the public voices crossed and politics entered the scene. An open-ended story.
