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With the various World Cup qualifying rounds going on and the prospect of Argentina and Messi not making it to Russia, why not cheer my world wide audience up with something about the Boca Juniors of Buenos Aires? I did write about River Plate, their deadly rivals recently.
Have I featured Boca before? Of course.
http://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/falling-idols-in-torrid-finals.html
So Club Atletico Boca Juniors is a sports' club in La Boca area of Buenos Aires, which hosts many varied sports of which football is the most well known. Founded in 1905 the club has always been in the Primera Division and of course holds all the records for most trophies won. I shall not go through them, but they do hold the Championship title (again) this year. They are called the Genoese (Xeneizes) due to their foundation by Italian boys from Genoa (of course) and Greek lads from Chios, Samos and Kassos. Europeans migrated to Argentina in their "droves" during the 19th Century, hence the number of "white" faces in their teams.
The photo is from 1906 after the club's victory in the Copa Reformista and their promotion to the Primera was in 1913, mainly because the AAF decided to run a top division of 15 teams and not 6!
They have a fierce rivalry with River Plate, since both clubs are set in La Boca area so matches between them are known as Superclasico. Their first venture to Europe to test their strength was in 1925 and they 15 out of 19 games in Spain, Germany and France. I doubt whether the English FA would have condoned their visit to England!
If you can concentrate their team strip is based on the Swedish national flag and well they have cheer leaders! Calm down.
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