Juan Román Riquelme
Old master Juan Román Riquelme is finished with the blue and yellow of Boca Juniors
The No.10 in Argentine football is almost as important a part of the national identity as the old clichés of steak or tango and in recent years, as far as a large section of the country is concerned, there has been only one – Juan Román Riquelme.
By Charles Reynolds | Football, Sport | Monday, 9 July 2012 at 4:27 pm
Nobody is bigger than the club, except these two
A weekend win granted Boca Juniors head coach Claudio ‘Bichi’ Borghi a stay of execution but the knives are out for the man tackling Argentina’s mission impossible.
Defeat against Vélez Sársfield would have seen Sunday’s opponents lead Boca by nine points in the Apertura table with the campaign just four games old. Bichi was able to [...]
By Tim Sturtridge | Sport | Monday, 30 August 2010 at 6:29 pm
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