Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca,a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is best known for its professional football team which,since its promotion in 1913,has always played in the Argentine Primera División. The team has won 74 official titles,the most by any Argentine club. National titles won by Boca Juniors include 35 Primera División championships,and 17 domestic cups. Boca Juniors also owns an honorary title awarded by the Argentine Football Association for their successful tour of Europe in 1925.
The Alberto JoséArmando Stadium is a football stadium located in La Boca,Buenos Aires,Argentina. The stadium is widely known as La Bombonera due to its shape,with a "flat" stand on one side of the pitch and three steep stands around the rest of the stadium.
Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Paternal,Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its football team,which currently plays in the Argentine Primera División,and was recognized as one of the most important football teams of South America by FIFA. It is one of the eight Argentine first division teams that have won the Copa Libertadores. The continental trophy was won in the club's first entry to the contest,in 1985. The most remarkable sign of this team is the power of its youth teams,which unveiled some of the most talented footballers in Argentine football history,with Diego Maradona as the greatest example of all. As a result,it has been described as "one of Argentina's most distinctive football clubs".
Juan Román Riquelme is an Argentine former professional footballer and current president of Boca Juniors,the club where he spent the majority of his playing career. He is considered by various journalists,players and coaches as one of the greatest playmakers of all time.
Martín Palermo is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a striker. He is currently the manager of Olimpia.
Ricardo Enrique Bochini is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is nicknamed El Bocha. He spent his nearly twenty-year professional career at club Independiente,becoming one of the most emblematic players and the greatest idol in the history of the club. Bochini was a childhood idol of Argentine footballer Diego Maradona.
Association football is the most popular sport in Argentina and part of the culture in the country. It is the one with the most players and is the most popular recreational sport,played from childhood into old age. The percentage of Argentines that declare allegiance to an Argentine football club is about 90%.
Estadio Diego Armando Maradona is a football stadium located in the district of Villa General Mitre,Buenos Aires,Argentina. It is the home venue of club Argentinos Juniors,and has a capacity of 22,023 spectators.
The Argentina–England football rivalry is a highly competitive sports rivalry that exists between the national football teams of the two countries,as well as their respective sets of fans. Games between the two teams,even those that are only friendly matches,are often marked by notable and sometimes controversial incidents.
Julio Jorge Olarticoechea is an Argentine former footballer who played as a defender. At international level,he represented Argentina at the 1986 and the 1990 World Cups,winning the former edition of the tournament. He shared a room with Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup.
Boca Juniors Reserves and Academy are the reserve and youth academy teams of Boca Juniors. Boca Juniors reserve team plays in the "Primera División de Reserva",the reserve division of Primera División. Home matches are played at the "Boca Juniors Training Center",inaugurated in 2017 and sited in Ezeiza,Buenos Aires. The Boca Juniors reserves are the team with the most Torneo de Reserva championships with 20 titles,since the squad was established in 1910.
Carlos Patricio Mac Allister is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward for clubs in Argentina,Mexico and Japan.
Club Sportivo Buenos Aires is a defunct Argentine football club from the city of Buenos Aires that played in Primera División during the 1920s.
The origins of Argentine sports club Boca Juniors can be traced to the early 1900s,when a group of teenagers decided to establish a football club in La Boca,a working-class neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Most of the original founders of the club were of Italian descent,as the southern barrio had been settled by Ligurian migrants during the 19th century;to this day,Boca supporters are known as "Xeneizes".
Kevin Mac Allister is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or full-back for Belgian Pro League club Union SG.
Alexis Mac Allister is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Argentina national team.
Francis Manuel Mac Allister is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Rosario Central.
Football is the most popular sport,both in terms of participants and spectators,in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires has one of the highest concentration of football teams of any city in the world,with many of its teams playing in the top tier Primera División. This has led to the development of several rivalries within the city,contested as "derbys" when the regular league schedule brings these teams together,such as the Superclásico between Boca Juniors and River Plate –deemed one of the "50 sporting things you must do before you die" by The Observer. Other major clubs include Vélez Sarsfield,Ferro Carril Oeste and Argentinos Juniors.
The 1997–98 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season was the 68th consecutive Primera División season played by the senior squad.
Martín Maquieyra is an Argentine politician,currently serving as National Deputy elected in La Pampa since 2016. He is a member of Republican Proposal (PRO),and currently sits in the Juntos por el Cambio parliamentary bloc.
