Jorge Sampaoli left the Chilean team in January 2016, but his departure continues to speak, as he started a millionaire lawsuit to the National Association of Professional Football (ANFP) for a refund of an amount that canceled the Service of Internal Taxes.
The current coach of Santos de Brasil, along with Sebastián Beccacece (now the technical director of Independiente) and Jorge Desio, request a payment of almost five million dollars (3,458 million Chilean pesos).
According to La Tercera, of that amount, almost 1.5 million belong to a request for reimbursement of the payment to the Internal Revenue Service. The three members of the coaching staff had accounts in the British Virgin Islands and, according to them, canceling that amount was an obligation of the ANFP.
"This part of the agreement was not fully complied with by the ANFP, as it only paid part of the taxes drawn, not reimbursing to date most of those taxes, paid directly by Messrs. Sampaoli, Beccacece and Desio, and that the ANFP owed to reimburse them, "says the text presented by the Argentine lawyers.
The remaining amount, which is around 3.5 million dollars, is due to a claim for “moral damages”. They claim that they were unfairly linked to former Chilean leader Sergio Jadue, who is currently being detained in the United States for corruption following FIFAGate.
"The untimely and unfounded presentation of a complaint in which he linked to the coaching staff with him, at that date, fled, discredited and unpopular Sergio Jadue Jadue, generated national repercussion, seriously affecting the honor of Mr. Sampaoli, Beccacece and Desio" , said the brief.
After a great step through the University of Chile, Jorge Sampaoli replaced the Argentine Claudio Borghi as head of the Chilean team, with which he made history: he won the Copa América for the first time. He also reached the knockout stages in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.