Accompanied by the presidents of some of Argentina’s most famous clubs, Argentine Football Association (AFA) head Luis Segura has called for the creation of a national law to control the sport, as he presented a new bill that will ban the resale of tickets for sporting and artistic events in the City of Buenos Aires.
«I am happy because the [City] Legislature has joined us in feeling concerned and we are going to try and solve one of the issues that harms football,» Segura told reporters after presenting the bill, which this week will be heard in committee with a view to converting it into law before the end of 2014.
Under the proposed law, those found guilty of reselling tickets to a sporting, music or other such event would be liable to pay up to 30,000 pesos in fines and spend up to one month in prison. If the perpetrator is responsible for the event’s organisation the penalties would be stiffer, with fines running up to 100,000 pesos and the possibility of spending a maximum of two months behind bars as a deterrent for unofficial sellers.
«The idea is to take this nationwide, the ideal situation would be for everything related to football to be taken care of at a national level. Right now we need a national law that covers every part of football.»
Segura was accompanied in today’s presentation, in the City Legislature’s Eva Perón hall, by River Plate’s Rodolfo D’Onofrio, Daniel Angelici of Boca Juniors, Independiente president Hugo Moyano, Racing Club’s Victor Blanco, Miguel Calello of Vélez Sarsfield and Alejandro Nadur, president of Huracán.
As part of Segura’s proposal Blanco and Moyano – whose clubs are based in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province – will later take the bill to that district’s Congress in an attempt to pass it in Argentina’s most populated region.
Cristian Ritondo, first vice-president of the Legislature, and Justice committee president Francisco Quintana hosted the unveiling of the bill.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald