Chapter VII: Boca Juniors
In 1905, five immigrants from Italy founded a football club called Boca in the impoverished district of Boca, which was initially an amateur club and only participated in the lower leagues, until 1913, when the league was restructured from six to fifteen teams, and Boca Juniors was promoted to the first division. Since then, however, Boca Juniors have never been relegated, and in 1931, when Argentina officially launched the professional league, Boca Juniors won their first professional league title.
Boca originally wore the pink jersey, but soon abandoned it in favor of black and white Naoma, until a play-off match was held in 1906 with another team with the same jersey, in which the winner kept the original jersey and the loser had to wear a different style, but unfortunately Boca lost.
Since the team did not expect to lose and did not prepare a plan to change accordingly, it was decided to use the flag color of the first ship to enter the port of Buenos Aires as the color of the jersey, and it turned out that it was a Swedish ship that entered the port, so the blue and yellow colors of the Swedish flag were adopted as the color of the new jersey. As a result, two countries that are far apart have a special connection that has been maintained for more than 100 years now.
Whenever the team has a home game day, not only the buildings, but also the many fans come here in blue and yellow jerseys to support the famous team in the Americas. So far, Boca Juniors has won 6 Argentine National Amateur Championships, 22 Argentine First Division Championships, 1 Argentine Cup Championship, 6 Copa Libertadores Championships, 3 Club World Championships and more than dozens of championships.
Boca Juniors has produced countless famous football superstars over the past century, and there are even players who have had an important impact on world football, such as Maradona, Batistuta, Veron, and in recent years, Samuel, Riquelme, Tevez, Gago, etc......
And today, on this day when there is no match, more than 20 media reporters are waiting outside the door of Boca Juniors. They surrounded the place, seized every position where cameras could be set up, and looked nervously and expectantly at the end of the street from time to time.
But soon, some of the reporters reported in advance that people who passed through here fully understood the situation, oh, it turned out that the former pride had returned.
According to yesterday's statement issued by the spokesman of the Serie A giants AC Milan club, the double assist king of Serie A and the Champions League in the 05-06 season, the winner of the European Golden Boy Award, the young Argentine midfielder Diego. Santiago. Garcia. NΓ©stor has confirmed that he will leave the club at the end of the season. Although there are still two seasons left on Santiago's contract, the Milan spokesperson said it will not affect the player's next move, and AC Milan wishes Santiago all the best in the future. β
In his three seasons with AC Milan, the midfielder scored 13 goals and provided 37 assists for AC Milan in all competitions. No one thought that a rising star would suddenly fall like this, and his next stop would become an important point of attention and speculation."
"According to the exact information we have received, Santhiago has unexpectedly chosen his next stop at the Argentine giants Boca Juniors, which is also the place where he made his debut and attracted the attention of major European giants. For the 22-year-old, returning to Boca Juniors is definitely a bit of a bad choice, after AC Milan had previously stated that various clubs in Europe's top leagues, including Premier League side Southampton, had expressed interest in Santiago, but AC Milan chose to respect the player's personal wishes. β
"Eh, it's coming!" "That's Riquelme's car, he must have gone to the airport to pick up San Tiago!" "I've heard they're very good friends!"
When a blonde reporter calmly reported the news she had received in front of the camera, a black Toyota sedan slowly appearing at the end of the road caught the attention of the reporters, and after it was quickly confirmed, the crowd boiled.
Argentina now has 12 well-known car manufacturers with factories, producing 880,000 vehicles a year and a total of 500 car sales offices, at least 40% of which are located in the capital city of Buenos and the cities around Buenos City. As a powerful football club with great influence in Argentina, Boca Juniors has naturally become a sweet spot in the eyes of many car manufacturers, no, Toyota, which has just signed a sponsorship agreement with Boca Juniors, has provided the latest cars to Boca Juniors' first team players.
And the car in front of him was quickly recognized by the omniscient reporters, it is the current Boca Juniors star Juan? Roman? Riquelme's car!
As the most influential Boca Juniors player in world football since Veron, Riquelme, who wore the number 10 shirt once worn by Maradona, was affectionately known as "Viceroy" by fans. During his six-year spell with Boca Juniors from 1996 to 2002, Riquelme swept the Argentine domestic league with his core tactics, winning two spring league titles and one autumn league title, reaching the highest point in the club's history in 2000.
Because in this year, Boca regained the Copa Libertadores that had been lost for 22 years, and Riquelme also won the most important game of his career in this year. During the 2000 Toyota Cup at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Riquelme, who was only 22 years old at the time, surprised the world. Palermo's two goals came from his assists, and it was with his two assists that Boca finally defeated the mighty Real Madrid 2-1, winning the Toyota Cup for the first time in the club's history, and Riquelme also made a name for himself and reached the first peak of his career.
After being coaxed and favored by the major European giants, Riquelme landed at the Camp Nou for 11 million euros in June 2002, but the Argentine prodigy, who followed in the footsteps of his idol Maradona to Barcelona, failed to create success here. At that time, Barcelona coach Van Gaal, the strong-fisted coach of the Netherlands, emphasized physical confrontation and did not like Riquelme's soft style of play, so after a period of time, with the arrival of Brazilian Ronaldinho, Riquelme could only leave gloomily.
During his days on loan to the yellow submarine Villarreal, the Love Song Stadium undoubtedly allowed Riquelme to show his brilliance completely, and the captain of the Argentine national team, Juan? Sorin, Uruguayan star Diego? The successive arrival of a number of South American players such as Forlan, Arua Barena, and Luciano made him even more comfortable and became a well-deserved core.
It was also with his excellent performance that the once unknown yellow submarine Villarreal ranked third in La Liga at the end of the 04-05 season, and defeated the invincible Barcelona 3-0 at home in that game, allowing Riquelme to take perfect revenge on Barcelona. However, the good times were short-lived, and in the 2006-07 season, with Villarreal's results declining, Riquelme also had a huge conflict with then-manager Manuel Pellegrini, and after a few months in cold storage, Riquelme was loaned to Boca Juniors on February 9, 2007 for a period of four months.
Back at the Candy Box Stadium, the Viceroy was on full fire and scored twice on 21 June 2007 to help Boca Juniors win 2-0 away at Gremio in the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final. Although his feud with Pelagrini remained unresolved after the loan expired, Boca Juniors kept the 29-year-old governor at the Candy Box for $15 million.
It can be said that although the midfield maestro does not have the top honors in Europe in the true sense of the word, this does not affect the evaluation of him in the slightest: Maradona's general technique, dribbling and dribbling, although he is not outstanding in terms of strength and speed, but his outstanding talent has amazed everyone and made every opponent fearful.
But today, the midfield maestro is not the protagonist in the eyes of the media, but the real protagonist Santiago is watching the group of reporters with flashing lights in the car, putting on sunglasses and saying: "These annoying flies, how do they know that I am back?" β
The midfield maestro who was almost driving cautiously when he didn't brake the car just now and was driving cautiously heard Santiago's words and said helplessly: "Santi, don't you know how many reporters your hateful skinner's agent has sold you the news that you want to go back to Boca?" Looks like he wants to squeeze one last shot out of you! I've told you that Herna wasn't a good thing a long time ago! β
"Damn, it's him again! What a money-making material! After hearing Riquelme's "first-hand news", Santhiago couldn't hold back any longer, and he slammed his fist into the car stereo and said angrily. Santiago never thought that this B cub would not die after taking 600,000 yuan, and he could seize this opportunity to make another profit, if he was hesitating or had other choices, then Elner's revelation would undoubtedly send him to a dilemma, and he was so stupid that he relented to this kind of person once!
"Ouch, you boy! It's a new car! It's worth millions! Riquelme grinned and scolded when he saw this, looking distressed.
"Millions? You're talking about pesos, Romy! β