The return of Boca could end up spending on the transfer market”>Darío Benedetto a Boca puts its representative back in the center of the pass market, Cristian Bragarnik. And to ratify why it is the most decisive in its activity. Bragarnik is the liveliest, the most imaginative, the most audacious, the most insatiable and the most unscrupulous of all the agents in Argentine football. It does not recognize limits when it comes to specifying operations. Those that exist, always run for their own benefit.
Like a great puppeteer, Bragarnik pulled several strings at the same time. And of all those manipulations, he took advantage. He operated on several fronts so that Benedetto can return to Boca. He forced the departure of defender Lisandro López to the Xolos de Tijuana, a club in which he moves with the ease of an owner, and of Walter Bou to Defense and Justice, where he is also in charge of managing professional soccer. And as the owner of Elche in Spain, he paid Boca a debt from two years ago for the purchase of Iván Marcone.
With all that money in hand (or at least with the promise), Bragarnik sat down with the leaders of Olympique de Marseille and on behalf of Boca closed the purchase of Benedetto’s entire pass in a sum close to two and a half million euros. To be clearer: in order to close a pass, he made another two and paid off the debt of a third. In all cases, these are players who are under his representation and whom he moves from here to there without dissimulation.
Bragarnik runs (never walks) an increasingly larger field that, as far as is known, has three vertices: Argentina, Mexico and Spain, countries where it takes the forms of a representative, an intermediary, a manager or an owner. And he could be gaining a foothold in the powerful Brazilian market where he has just installed Antonio Mohamed as coach of Atlético Mineiro, the current champion. In all cases, the laws do not seem to reach it. Play strapping without worrying if the ball sometimes hits the outside. And that diversity of interests that he handles allows him to imagine and carry out three- or four-way deals that almost no one can dare to do in the depressed Argentine market.
One would have to ask when Bragarnik became so important and if it is good that a single representative, however best and cunning he may be, gathers so many interests in his own hands. In any case, you have to admit a merit: he was always close when they needed him. To get a big contract for the players and coaches he represents or to provide hard cash to clubs that want to strengthen their budgets and compete in better conditions. Although few know his face and perhaps he can walk down the street without being recognized, Cristian Bragarnik is one of the great figures of Argentine soccer. He doesn’t kick a ball, he makes things happen. And he moves his pieces with the confidence and impudence of those who almost never lose. Rather, they always win.
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