Daniella Chávez has launched a campaign through her “Onlyfans” page to raise money and buy the O’Higgings
According to the former model, she has already raised 5 million dollars, a third of the supposed price
Last February, weeks before a new edition of the Chilean national soccer championship began, the president of O’Higgings de Rancagua, Pablo Hoffman, confirmed that the owners of the club, the wealthy Abumohor familywas seeking to dispose of its investment.
Little did they know, then, that their decision would attract the interest of an unexpected buyer, Chilean model and “playboy bunny” Daniella Chávezwho would further stir up the bizarre Chilean football.
The Abumohors, a family of Palestinian origin who made their fortune in the forties of the last century through the textile sector and who today run a bank, a real estate company, a powerful financial company and food and restaurant industries -among other businesses- They are closely linked to Chilean football.
One of the three founding brothers, Ricardo Nicolás Abumohor Salman, played in the lower categories of the Palestino Club and once his sports career was over, he became the president of the entity, with a great pedigree in the Chilean league.
From there he came to the presidency of the National Professional Football Association (ANFP) of Chile, which he led between 1993 and 1998, a period in which the team managed to qualify for the final phase of France 1998 under the guidance of coach Nelson Acosta.
A FOOTBALL FAMILY
Football, however, entered the Abumohor home through their father, Nicolás, who was treasurer of the group of businessmen who managed to convince FIFA to grant the then-remote Chile the organization of the final phase of the 1962 World Cup, in which the hosts achieved the milestone of being third.
In 2005, and after his departure from the ANFP, Ricardo Abumohor set his sights on O’Higgings, a modest club with broken finances and multiple sporting problems that eight years later, and under the baton of Eduardo “el Toto” Berizzo, lifted the 2013 opening tournament and the 2013 Chilean Super Cup, its only two titles.
At that time, the controversial lawyer Sergio Jadue had risen to the presidency of the ANFP, with whom Ricardo always maintained a relationship characterized by tension and criticism of his economic and sports management.
FIFAGATE
Months after his controversial re-election, Jadue became one of the key protagonists of the so-called “FIFAGATE”, the corruption scandal that caused the fall of President Sepp Blatter and revealed a million-dollar network of bribery and money laundering.
Among them, an alleged bribe paid to Jadue to South American presidents and members of Conmebol to secure the television rights to four editions of the Copa América -including the one organized and won by Chile in 2015, a crime for which he pleaded guilty after resigning the ANFP, flee to Miami and reach an agreement with the FBI.
A scandal from which Chilean football has not yet recovered and that stands out at the origin of its current management problems, the division of its leaders and the controversial influence of certain agents, who try to impose their players.
A PLAYBOY BUNNY
In this context of confrontation in Chilean football -also mired in an economic and sports crisis after failing in the qualifying rounds for the World Cup for the second time in a row-, an unexpected piece of news has added one more point of surrealism to the course of the Chilean league .
A league that failed to qualify any of their teams for the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores and Sudamericana, which start this week.
Various media reported that the Chilean model and “influencer” Daniella Chávez, who was “Playboy Bunny”, had launched a campaign through her page “Onlyfans” to raise the necessary money and buy the O’Higgings, team she’s a fan of.
According to what Chávez herself said on her personal Twitter page, she had already raised 5 million dollars, a third of the supposed price.
“I found out that O’Higgins is for sale and I started a campaign to raise the almost $20 million. That’s why I created this account, with more Playboy content, so that fans can help raise the money,” he later explained to the local root DNA.
In addition, and to encourage those interested, he promised “VIP gifts” to fans who promote his initiative.
In the midst of the controversy that arose, Chávez – who has nearly 16 million followers on Instagram and has already invested in the other team in the city, the Deportivo Rancagua Sur club – even attacked Abumohor, whom he accused of discrimination for refusing to transfer the club to him now in the pillory of Chilean football.
