Who is Christian Bragarnik, the all-powerful business man who is behind Diego Maradona's arrival at Gymnastics?

Darío Benedetto, Gustavo Bou, Diego Cocca, Eduardo Coudet, Sebastián Beccacece, Jorge Almirón and many names related to football have a particularity: at one point, they were represented by Christian Bragarnikthe All-powerful business man of Argentine football that today is mainly responsible for Diego Maradona Be the brand new Gymnastics DT.

His debut in the world of the round was almost by chance. He had played in promotional clubs without much success. He lived in a video club in Flores, his hometown. His pbadion for football was such that he went on to edit videos of football players that he then proposed to the representatives and people related to the sport.

It was in 2001, in full crisis, that Bragarnik met Mariano Monroy, an Arsenal flier, which he proposed to put together a video with his best pieces. The comings and goings of life led the player to fall back on the Irapuato of Mexico, a second-division team delighted with the images of the talented football player and hired him.

From that moment, the football gate opened and was never closed.

Bragarnik became Mexico in the top entrepreneur. He had a strong relationship in Queretaro, where he was president, until the club began to be investigated. links to drug trafficking. He also did business in Tijuana, where he is master and lord of the Xolos and Los Dorados de Sinaloa, a club that revolutionized the arrival of Diego Maradona.

The doors were also opened in Argentina, where he was responsible for defense and justice and the arsenal. He also had very good relations with Víctor Blanco, president of Racing, and with Daniel Angelici, the strong man of Boca, who also brought him closer to the national team. The power of the man born in the neighborhood of Flores in Buenos Aires goes far beyond the mere representative.

Bragarnik is a discreet man. There are few images of him and he hardly appears in the media. He is the consultant in the shadow of many Argentine football leaders, who have a blind faith in their "powers".

His latest adventure is to have pbaded Diego Maradona's pbad to gymnastics and fencing in La Plata. Together with Matías Morla, a lawyer for the "Ten", they paved the way for the DT's landing in Argentine football after 24 years. It is no coincidence that Gallego Méndez and all of Maradona's coaching staff in gymnastics are their representatives.

Lanata, about Bragarnik

In his Sunday editorial, the PPT program Jorge Lanata He talked about the arrival of Diego Maradona to gymnastics. Among the jokes and political speeches, the pilot spoke of Christian Brgarnik, the strongman of Argentine football and his connection to the pbad.

"How did gymnastics get the string?" Maradona clawed, "and there is a mysterious name: Christian Bragarnik. In 2001, he made his first operation as a representative: the pbad of Mariano Monroy (former workshop player) in Querétaro de México, club of which he became president. The club belonged to a group of companies that was verified heavy links with drug traffickingLanata said about the man who won the world champion title in Mexico City in 1986 at the Platense club.

And he also gave details on the current situation of the businessman who, in recent years, has been the protagonist of Argentine football: "Christian Bragarnik now advises Jorge Hank Rhon, a black politician from Baja California who is suspected of running a network of casinos that eliminates black money from the Tijuana cartel. He is the owner of the cholos of this city and Dorados of Sinaloa, where Bragarnik also led to Maradona. "

"Bragarnik was the subject of an investigation in October 2014: a report from a monitoring agency, based on suspicious transaction reporting data issued by banks, noted that "The amount of the operation" of Julio César Rodríguez, Defense and Justice Dorados de Sinaloa, in exchange for $ 70,000, was "extremely meager for the international market of professional football." The investigation never advanced. sister of the president of Boca, who holds a position in the head of AFIP's control database division, "commented Lanata.