Hilbert on ADN Gol: Farías’ transfer is all above board | OneFootball

Today in the morning on ADN Gol with Darío Pignata, both leaders made statements regarding the judicial claim of Facundo Farías who appeared in court asking to collect 15% of his transfer to Inter Miami. Dr. Luis Hilbert, former Coordinating Secretary and legal advisor to Colón during José Vignatti's administration, began speaking, declared exclusively and said the following:

"Yes, this really surprised everyone for a lot of reasons. We have to go back a bit to the time of the transfer. We, as the institution, when the transfer to Inter Miami is made. You know that there is a procedure to be followed with the players, according to the player's statute there is a 15%."

Farías has donated that 15% to the institution. Even, how is this done? Well, it was done through a donation agreement between the Club Atlético Colón team and Facundo Farías. In this agreement, even, the amount of the 15%, there is a specific clause where it says that the player himself, that this donation is made with a charge so that this money is allocated to activities and needs of the lower categories, of club players, it is understood from lower players, it is also understood from amateur football.

I was as Coordinating Secretary, in charge of a lot of disciplines, which I will mention, like hockey, like volleyball, like football, senior, basque, play, etc. All this brings up the following, with that sum, first you have to do a procedure, which was done in an agreement, which was certified by public deed, it is not a common paper that was made. Once it is certified by a notary public, it was taken to the Argentine footballer's union, because it is the Argentine footballer's union who has to control that 15%.

If the Argentine footballer's union gives you the OK, that the player has donated or has made a will on that 15%, only then does the footballer's union send the relevant documentation or manifests to the Argentine Football Association that everything is OK, so that only at that moment the Argentine Football Association can send the transfer to the club where the player is going. In other words, all the documentation of what I am expressing is in the club, there is a copy that we also have, everything is demonstrated, it is totally clear how things were done, and if not, the union will not give the OK, nor would AFA have sent the transfer.

It is also very important, and you as a journalist know it, that Faría himself thanked, and there are also many conferences or notes that have been made to Facundo, where he himself stated that the money corresponding to the 15% had been donated for the aforementioned destination, so all the documentation is in order.

Now, the reason why he does it, well, we don't know that, it is really absurd that he does this here when he has had an attitude totally contrary to what he has publicly stated, and he has signed what I say, certified by the Public Court and presented to the Argentine Football Association through the Union.

Yes, it is in the possession of the club and it is in the possession of the Union, it also has to have a certified copy with all the documentation, if not, it cannot notify the APA that it has complied with that 15%. There is also an issue that for me it is important that the economist mass knows, many works were done with respect to Farías' money, for example, if you ask me, if you go to the premises, the enclosure of court 8 was made with the posts, with the fences, a stand that was under construction was also finished and a new one was made, and it was also discussed to put the name of Facundo Farías to these stands, tools, blades, new ones for cutting the grass have been bought, and it is also an important issue that completes me a bit because I was coordinating secretary and had a link between the board of directors and all the different subcommittees that I have named, for example, football, hockey, basketball, seta, women's football.

Regarding women's football, I also want to tell you, it is very important, it is also very important to emphasize that they were playing on the field of Rafael Batres, the auxiliary field, that field was totally, it was a bare earth field, on that field the school played, played, Manetti called me permanently because they also had league matches, the senior also played. Well, at one point it was necessary to treat that, there was no possibility of having good water there, and well, I remember that also at that time a bypass was made, I think they call it, bringing it from the central field so that the auxiliary field Batres could have water, as I tell you, the lower ones and the boys played a lot, and well, thanks to that, you will have seen when I went to the field how we were able to make the grass grow. So a lot of works and a lot of attentions and needs were done for both, both for the boys, the lower ones, both in the pension, so the dining room for the boys was also greatly improved, so a lot was done with that, and all that is poured into work.

Later, Jose Alonso joined the conversation, who was vice president of Vignatti's administration and also gave his opinion on this topic.

All I want to say and express is that Faría's transfer was impeccable, everything was very correct, as it should be, with constant contact with the MLS, with the Inter-Miami club, where every action that was carried out to make Farías' transfer was totally neat and totally traceable. The current leaders know this because we have talked about it at some point personally when they called certain questions they had to ask our administration and we clearly expressed how this whole mechanism in which it started was, even me being out of the country with José Vignatti and we were moving it forward.

We are not only talking about transfers, as Luis said, but we also have to talk about how the management was in which all the money that came in from Faría was deposited in a local bank, I'm not going to say the name, but yes all the people who know this administration, all the documentation was not only done in Spanish, but also in English, and everything is certified and handled. I believe that an act of nation, which is a voluntary, solidary act, that a person does not exercise in all his rights, is a civil act, it cannot be transformed into a labor claim, because if this were a labor claim it would already be extinguished, because after two years it is extinguished, and two years have already passed from this event, so it even has a phenomenon of the term. And apart from what he told you, it is very simple, because there can be no transfer in football, no transfer that does not go through the union, that justifies that 15% retention that the club has to have for the player.

It was so neat that even a value, a check, was generated for the player where the player endorses the check in favor of the club, and that makes even more, certification, that takes the union and the union went, went, went to the transfer, therefore he was enabled otherwise he could not have played. There is no more eloquence than that. So I think one has to be calm in this, I think the line that the actors leaders have to draw, because this is an attack on Colón, in which it does not correspond, so there must be a common legal response line, because in the end we are colonists and we have to defend Colón against people who commit these acts that do not correspond. So I want to clarify that because Luis already explained everything about the process and it is totally clear, forceful, justifiable and documented." concluded the former Sabalero directors.

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