Fútbol para todos

From 1991 to 2009, the rights to Primera División matches were held by Televisión Satélite Codificada, a company co-owned by Grupo Clarín and Torneos y Competencias.

On 8 August 2009, the Argentine government made an offer for 600 million pesos for the rights to broadcast the games, which would be placed on over-the-air television.

[1] In 2011, the AFA broke its television contract with TRISA, another joint venture between Clarín and TyC, for Primera B Nacional matches.

As an official program and initiative of the federal government, Fútbol para todos received support from cultural and sports figures in Argentina, but also criticism from opposition politicians.

"[3] Government supporters responded that the average spending on the program was far less than that on the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires when divided by the number of viewers.

[4] In 2010, two environmental NGOs noted that 144 million pesos had been diverted from funds earmarked to implement a forestry law to Fútbol para Todos.

Former Cabinet Chiefs Aníbal Fernández and Jorge Capitanich, along with one-time coordinator Gabriel Mariotto and a group of former directors of the AFA, are all being investigated.