The Argentine Football Association (AFA) said it “won’t give [the government] the right” to intervene in football, in a 2,500-word statement it published on Monday. 

It comes after Senator Patricia Bullrich reported the association’s president, Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia, and treasurer, Pablo Toviggino, to the ethics committee of CONMEBOL, South American football’s governing body.

In her complaint, the former Security Minister questioned what AFA was doing with “the money that comes in through advertising and the national team”, after 54 luxury vehicles were seized in a raid on a 10-hectare mansion in Pilar, province of Buenos Aires, suspected by the judiciary to be owned by Tapia.

The AFA’s board defended itself from accusations of corruption, claiming it........

© Buenos Aires Herald