Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors, universally referred to as simply Boca Juniors, is an Argentine football (soccer) club. Its home base is the neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and it plays at La Bombonera, meaning "the chocolate box". The club's nickname is los Xeneises (the Genoese), which was derived from the fact that when the club was founded, the Boca district was heavily populated with immigrants from Genoa. It plays in blue and gold shirts, the colours of the national flag (Sweden) of the first ship to arrive in the port of Buenos Aires after the club's formation in 1905.
Boca Juniors have traditionally been regarded as the club of Argentina's working class, contrasted with the more middle class support base of their cross-town rivals River Plate. It is common for fans to remark that "half plus one" of Argentina's population support Boca.
Boca have won the Intercontinental Cup three times, the Copa Libertadores five times and been Argentine professional champions twenty times.
Its president and manager is wealthy Mauricio Macri and its coach is Miguel Brindisi, following the departure of Carlos Bianchi in mid-2004, after a two-stint carreer with the club, during which Boca won the Libertadores three times and the Intercontinental Cup twice (on 2000 and 2003).
Probably the most famous player in the club's modern history has been Diego Maradona who played with the club in the 1981-82 and 1995-97 seasons.
External Links
- Official Page: http://www.bocajuniors.com.ar/
- the New Boca Group: http://www.agrupacionnuevoboca.com.ar/
- This Is Boca: http://www.estoesboca.com.ar/
- Half Plus One: http://www.lamitadmas1.com.ar/
