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Press versions assure that a group led by the Argentine Christian bragarnik the purchase of the Deportivo Independiente Medellín to its maximum shareholder, Raúl Giraldo. The club has not yet been sold, but has already announced Hernán Darío Gómez as its new coach.
Who is Bragarnik? In the Argentine soccer world he is known as the “lord of the passes”. His company, Score Fútbol, represents more than one hundred players and fifteen coaches in the country. In addition, he informally manages Defense and Justice and sports counsel to various clubs. It also has ties with Lanús, Colón de Santa Fe, Godoy Cruz de Mendoza, Arsenal and El Porvenir.
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In Colombia he was known at the time as the businessman who brought Argentine coach Diego Cocca to Millonarios, and also put Argentine Jorge Almirón in Atlético Nacional at the time.
In Mexico, he established links with Grupo Caliente, owner of Dorados de Sinaloa and Xolos de Tijuana, clubs that were also under judicial investigation. Also with Querétaro, where one of its investors, Tirso Martínez Sánchez, was accused of laundering money.
“That is where my origin is discussed. Over time I learned a bit that apparently the capitalists of the club, their money, came from drug trafficking. It is easy to talk. But I never had a trial. That’s how that image of mine was made, ”Bragarnik said in 2015, quoted by the Spanish newspaper El País.
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In those clubs he placed some of his clients: Cocca, Eduardo Coudet, Antonio Mohamed, and Gustavo Bou, among others. In addition, he facilitated the arrival of Diego Maradona as coach of Dorados, in Mexico, and then to Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. At the time, Bragarnik unlocked the arrival of Jorge Sampaoli to the Argentine team.
He is a lawyer, a fan of Vélez Sarsfield and is 48 years old. Before creating his representation company in July 2011, he had a video store. The link with football was born in that business. In 2001, he proposed to Mariano Monrroy, Arsenal midfielder and video store client, to put together a compilation with his best plays and offer it to Eduardo Fuentes, a former player who also rented movies at his premises and had contacts in Aztec territory.
The video worked and he sold Monrroy for $ 400,000 to Irapuato, a subsidiary of Querétaro. They offered him to work as a club employee for $ 10,000 a month. He quickly went on to serve as vice president, and within six months he was already the president of the institution.
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But his greatest achievement was achieved in Spain. He is in charge of managing the destinations of Elche, of which he is the largest shareholder, with 93 percent. When Bragarnik became the owner of the club, at the end of 2019, Elche was seventh in the Spanish second division standings and was going through one of the best sporting moments of the season. In addition, it was 12 points from Cádiz.
Today, the team is in the first division and Bragarnik put Jorge Almirón in charge of the team, replacing José Rojo Martín “Pacheta”, whom he fired after getting promoted.
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