He told him that if he wanted something about soccer, he should talk to the former president or to Chiqui Tapia.

Mauricio Macri made the meeting that Javier Milei had in the United States with the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, who only received him for ten minutes to exchange a ball and a T-shirt.

Infantino told him that the meeting was only for a “photo opportunity”. As a proof of this, they did not talk about what Milei is interested in, which is the entry of the Sociedades Anónimas Deportivas to displace the civil associations in the Argentine clubs.

The only one who demanded something was Infantino: he asked Milei that the Argentine government help organize the 2030 World Cup, which will be played in Spain, Morocco and Portugal but will have the three opening matches in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

The brevity of the meeting was stumped by Macri, who presides the FIFA Foundation and is the Argentinean of reference for Infantino. The other is Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia, head of the AFA. Infantino told Milei that if he wanted something from FIFA he should talk to one of them first.

The libertarian did not want to depend on the former president and bypassed him since the genesis of the meeting with the Swiss. He did not call Macri to participate or to facilitate the meeting, but got it from his own officials.

Infantino had already come with the background of Milei’s sit-in at the 78th Ordinary Congress of Conmebol held on April 11 in Asuncion, to advance with the organization of the 2030 World Cup. Presidents Santiago Peña, from Paraguay, and Luis Lacalle Pou, from Uruguay, were there. Milei was invited, but he went to Miami to receive the distinction of ambassador of light from the orthodox Jewish organization Chabad Lubavitch.

The libertarian threatened to send Daniel Scioli as representative of the Argentine government. Finally he did not send the former motorcyclist because he was told that it could be understood as a protocol failure.

Milei’s tense relationship with Macri also crosses the world of soccer. The President tried to impose the SAD by DNU and ran into the obstacle of the Justice, the clubs and the AFA. Ideologically, Macri agrees with the concept of the privatization of soccer, but he does not support Milei from the operational point of view.

The President only relies on four horsemen for this enterprise: Scioli, the Undersecretary of Sports, Julio Garro; the Congresswoman Juliana Santillán and the businessman and owner of World Eleven, Guillermo Tofoni.