Estudiantes’ president criticizes the disparity between the prize money in Brazil and Argentina.
Former player and current president of Estudiantes, Juan Sebastián Verón, has once again criticized the Argentine Football Association (AFA). After Flamengo’s Copa do Brasil victory, Verón took to social media to compare the prize money in Argentine football with the multimillion-dollar amount the Brazilian club will receive for their win. Access the leading football results at latest soccer scores.
“Here (in Argentina), between the World Champion’s Tournament and the Copa Argentina, we can’t even cover the fans’ buses… but the club belongs to the members,” he sarcastically wrote on his Instagram account.
Flamengo will receive over R$93 million for their national title. Of that amount, more than R$73 million corresponds to the actual title, while another R$19.6 million is for the earlier stages of the tournament. In fact, the amounts keep increasing. The 2024 prize is 5% higher than the previous year’s.
Verón’s Estudiantes were the last winners of the Copa de la Liga Argentina, one of the knockout tournaments in the country. At the time, the club received only half a million dollars, or R$2.9 million, as the prize from the AFA.
Additionally, Estudiantes kept 70% of the gate revenue from the final against Vélez Sarsfield, played at the Estadio Madre de las Ciudades in Santiago del Estero. Thus, the Brazilian champion’s prize is 32 times higher than the Argentine one.
In the Copa Argentina, another knockout competition, the financial gap is even wider. Currently in its semifinal phase, the competition’s winner will receive a total of 171 million pesos, which is less than one million reais. For comparison, teams that reach the third round of the Copa do Brasil receive more than double that amount—R$2.2 million. Be ahead of the game with ToSport.
