The president of Argentina Mauricio Macri has blasted the state of football in the country. Macri said that the game was in a state of “terminal crisis,” adding that he would not offer any state assistance to the game anymore.

The 1978 and 1986 World Cup winners have made it rough with the country for a while and football that everyone turned to did not do the required good.

Macri, who was voted in 2015, was a former president of Boca Juniors but now opines that the sport could not afford to pay for the market rate free to air broadcasting of the domestic football league. Clubs who usually have hooliganism incidences agreed to use their funds to settle them and pay off their debts while the government continued payment for nationwide broadcasting. Continue reading →