Claudio Fabián 'Chiqui' Tapia

Also known as: Tapia

Jurisdiction: Argentina

AFA president from 29 March 2017, ending the Normalising Committee period. Earlier a vice-president; consulted CONMEBOL over the prescription of a Messi sanction in 2020.

Roles

  • Second vice-president, AFA — from 2015
  • President, AFA — from 2017-03-29

Timeline appearances

  1. 2017-03-29Retirement & return (2016)Classification: Confirmed fact
    Claudio Tapia elected AFA president, ending the Normalising Committee period

    Role at the time: Second vice-president, AFA from 2015

  2. 2017-04-10Retirement & return (2016)Classification: Confirmed fact
    Tapia dismisses Bauza and the Superliga is created under the new AFA structure

    Role at the time: Second vice-president, AFA from 2015

  3. 2019-07-02Tournament officiatingClassification: Confirmed fact
    Referee Roddy Zambrano's 2024 admission that a penalty was missed in the 2019 semifinal, without specifying which incident

    Role at the time: Second vice-president, AFA from 2015

  4. 2019-07-06Tournament officiatingClassification: Confirmed fact
    Messi's two distinct 2019 CONMEBOL sanctions — the time-barred one-match red-card ban and the separate three-month comments suspension

    Role at the time: Second vice-president, AFA from 2015

Relationships

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Governing-body regulation or decision

Claudio Tapia, nuevo Presidente de la AFA

Asociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA) · 2017-03-29

RetrievedLanguage: esNot marked independent

Explicit limitations

  • Exact content of the article-87 statute amendment.
  • Precise Superliga governance/statute detail (partial).
  • Which specific incident Zambrano referred to in 2024. The record does NOT establish this; ambiguity preserved and NOT resolved.
  • Whether CONMEBOL published a formal written prescription ruling (only the AFA-relayed confirmation located this session).
  • No public record of a CAS filing by Messi/AFA located this session.