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35 unusual facts about Boca Juniors


Antonio Alberino

Antonio Américo Alberino (born 26 October 1910) is a former Argentine football striker who won two league championships with Boca Juniors.

Argentina at the Rugby World Cup

During their World Cup run, the normally football-crazed Argentines embraced the Pumas so much that El Superclásico, the Buenos Aires football derby between Boca Juniors and River Plate that is normally the biggest event in Argentine sport, was rescheduled so that it would not conflict with the Pumas' quarter-final match.

Arturo Sanhueza

The next season, Sanhueza made his international debut in the Copa Libertadores, in where he was member of the historic 1–0 home victory over Boca Juniors at Valparaíso and of the also important tie with the same team at La Bombonera.

Blas Pérez

In 2007 Cúcuta and Blas Perez made their debut in Copa Libertadores, in which Blas scored 8 goals, including two against Argentina's Boca Juniors.

Bryan Man

Man has five tattoos, including a tattoo of the number 7 (his preferred shirt number) and of the crest of his favorite football club, Boca Juniors.

C.S.D. Comunicaciones

Comunicaciones is the only Guatemalan team who has played against Real Madrid (with Gento, Ferenc Puskás, Alfredo Di Stéfano), Santos FC (with Pelé), and Boca Juniors (with Diego Armando Maradona).

Claudio Vacca

Claudio Vacca (October 24, 1915 - January 28, 1985) was an Argentine football goalkeeper who played most of his career at Boca Juniors.

David McCreery

His knowledge of global soccer and networks led McCreery to join a United States-based soccer management company, then he became European Consultant for Boca Juniors and scouted for a number of Premier and Championship League clubs in England.

Domingo Tarasconi

He played most of his career for Boca Juniors where he was Club topscorer on 5 occasions and Argentine Primera league topscorer on 5 occasions (1922, 1923, 1924 and 1934).

Édison Preciado

After Cuenca qualified for the Copa Libertadores 2009, Preciado scored the only goal in a 1-0 home win against Boca Juniors.

Estádio Palestra Itália

The last match played by Palmeiras on Palestra Italia was a friendly against Boca Juniors on July 9, 2010.

Francisco Palencia

After finishing second place to Boca Juniors in the Copa Libertadores, Palencia departed from Cruz Azul at the end of the 2000-2001 season and went to Spain (on loan) to play for RCD Espanyol in La Liga, where he played 35 matches and scored six goals.

Grito Mundial

The official music video was filmed in late October, 2009 at La Bombonera in Argentina, when Boca Juniors and Chacarita were playing.

Hólger Matamoros

Placed in Group 2 with Boca Juniors, Deportivo Táchira, and Guaraní, they won all three home games, including a historic 1-0 victory over Boca.

Hugo Porta

He played football (soccer) and almost signed for Boca Juniors but then changed to rugby union, joining Banco Nación.

John Jairo Lozano

Lozano began the 2011 pre-season with América before going on trial with top Argentine club Boca Juniors.

Juan Sánchez Miño

Juan Manuel Sánchez Miño (born 1 January 1990) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a midfielder for Argentine Primera División team Boca Juniors.

KHL Medveščak Zagreb

On 24 August 2010, KHL Medveščak formed an official partnership with UNICEF, becoming the first and only European hockey team to cooperate with UNICEF, joining prestigious sporting clubs FC Barcelona, Manchester United F.C. and Boca Juniors from Argentina.

La Raulito

The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires.

Laurent Dufresne

Despite being a mere 1 star team, Valenciennes managed to beat some great top class teams such as FC Barcelona and Boca Juniors under Dufresne's charismatic leadership.

Leonel Pernía

In fact, he played for Boca Juniors First Division in 1997, in the National Professional Soccer League the next two years, then raced at the Argentine Turismo Nacional in 2000 and 2001.

Mark Shield

He was also named as the fourth official in the final between Boca Juniors and A.C. Milan.

Mirjan Pavlović

He most recently signed a one-year youth contract with New Zealand-based Wellington Phoenix of the Australian A-League, after a successful trial including matches against Boca Juniors and Wairarapa United.

Mokhtar Dahari

One of Mokhtar's famous moment was when Mokhtar shook hands with Diego Maradona before a friendly game with Boca Juniors.

Néstor Fabbri

After six seasons with Racing, Fabbri spent the 1992 season with Colombian América de Cali, and the 1993 season back to Argentina for Club Atlético Lanús, before moving to Boca Juniors in 1994.

Osvaldo Aquino

Aquino's highlights at Olimpia include scoring the first goal in the Copa Libertadores 1979 final against Boca Juniors, winning the Intercontinental Cup in 1979 and winning six consecutive Paraguayan 1st division titles from 1978 to 1983.

Pérez Celis

A fan of the Club Atlético Boca Juniors football team, he created two murals in 1997 for the team's La Bombonera Stadium in Buenos Aires: "Idolos" (Idols) and "Mito y Destino" (Myth and Destiny), both Venetian mosaics and bronze on cement.

Ramón Grosso

In the following years Grosso played in several positions for Real Madrid, even being placed as goalkeeper in the Ramón de Carranza Trophy match with Boca Juniors.

Roberto Silvera

He has been an International FIFA referee since 2003 and officiated several important fixtures since then which include the semifinals of Copa Libertadores in 2007 between Boca Juniors and Cúcuta Deportivo (second leg) and again in 2008 between Boca Juniors and Fluminense (first leg).

Romário Ricardo da Silva

On the 27th June 2012, Romarinho scored the equaliser in the First Leg of the 2012 Copa Libertadores Final against Boca Juniors of Argentina.

Ronald Shakespear

Diseño Shakespear designed Identity Programs for the most important Argentine companies as Avex, Banco Galicia, Luigi Bosca, Banco Patagonia, Luigi Bosca, Boca Juniors, Duty Free Shop, Red Link, Oca, Banelco, Harrods,and hundreds more.

Stealing Summers

Dreaming of freedom and never having to return home, the three plot to steal the cash during the weekend of the Superclásico, the epic football derby between bitter rivals Boca and River.

Stephen Keel

On May 29, 2010 Keel scored Portland's second goal in a 3-2 come from behind victory over Argentina’s Boca Juniors in a friendly played at PGE Park.

Supercopa Argentina

The first edition of the super cup was contested by Boca Juniors (2011–12 Copa Argentina and 2011–12 Apertura winner) and Arsenal (2011–12 Clausura winners).

Wayne Rooney's Street Striker

They also get the chance to see the professional side Boca Juniors play a match and perform some of their skills on the pitch at half-time.


Alfredo Rojas

It was not until 1962, when he move to Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, that El Tanque gained some importance in the Argentine football, scoring 17 goals.after another season with the team from La Plata, Rojas was transferred to Boca Juniors.

Antonio Rattín

Antonio Ubaldo Rattín (born May 16, 1937 in Tigre, Buenos Aires Province) is a former Argentine football player, best known as a Boca Juniors midfielder, and because of an incident in a match at the 1966 FIFA World Cup.

Bruno Marioni

He then played for Toluca, and netted an Apertura-leading 11 goals, but in the January transfer window he moved to Boca Juniors.

Daniel Angelici

The day after, Falcioni quit and Angelici went for the historical coach of Boca Juniors and brought Carlos Bianchi over after three days and one weekend deciding if he would came back to the club that make him win 9 titles.

Ernesto Mastrángelo

Ernesto Enrique Mastrángelo (born July 5, 1948 in Rufino) is a former Argentine football striker who played for both River Plate and Boca Juniors in Argentina.

Federico Bravo

Federico Bravo (Jesús María, 5 October 1993) is an Argentinian professional football player who currently plays for Boca Juniors.

Francisco Di Franco

Francisco Di Franco (born 28 January 1995 in San Miguel) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Boca Juniors in the Argentine Primera División.

Leandro Paredes

Leandro Daniel Paredes (born 29 June 1994) is an Argentine footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Roma, on loan from Boca Juniors.

Matías Sánchez

Sánchez made his way through Racing Club's youth system to make his debut in a 0–3 defeat to Boca Juniors on March 5, 2006.

Neri Cardozo

He too was a part of the Boca squad which played in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, Cardozo scored in the semi-final 1-0 victory against Tunisian side Étoile Sportive du Sahel before losing 4-2 in the final against AC Milan.

Paysandu Sport Club

Paysandu attracted the world's attention in 2003 after the campaign in the Copa Libertadores, beating several traditional South American teams such as Cerro Porteño and Boca Juniors (at La Bombonera).

Sergio Berti

In the Copa Libertadores 2000, when América came to visit his former club Boca Juniors for the first leg match of the semifinals, just minutes before the start of the game Sergio Berti withdraw from playing, arguing being scared for the safety of his family and himself based on the chants of the Barra of Boca Juniors.