Tag Archives: Boca Juniors

Continuing the series that looks at those thankfully rare times in football history when fans went to a football match but never made it home afterwards. (For Part One click here; Part Two here; and Part Three here). Puerta 12, Estadio Monumental, Buenos Aires The rivalry between River Plate and Boca Juniors, known as the Superclasico, is arguably the fiercest ...

Boca Juniors want to sign Arsenal midfielder Lucas Torreira in the summer. The Uruguayan midfielder is currently on a season long loan with Atlético Madrid in La Liga, but he ahs had a difficult time under Diego Simeone, and has been sparingly used, with most of his appearances coming off the bench. To make matters worse for him ,e recently ...

Edison Cavani is to turn down the opportunity of staying at Manchester United for a further year. Instead, he has decided that he wants to move to Argentina and sign for Boca Juniors. Cavani joined United as a free agent on October after leaving French champions  PSG in the summer, initially signing for a year, with the option of another ...

Manchester United are set to terminate the contract of defender Marcos Rojo. That will allow the 30-yer-old to return to Argentina to join Boca Juniors on a free transfer. Rojo joined United in 2014 from Sporting Lisbon, but his time at the club has been blighted by injury and he has not featured at all for them in the current ...

Carlos Bianchi started his professional career at Velez Sarsfield in the Argentine top division in 1967. He was a gifted goalscorer and went on to score a remarkable 121 goals from 165 league appearances during his first six years at the club before moving to Stade de Reims in France. The goals kept coming from Bianchi’s boots in Ligue 1 ...