Boca Juniors vs. Olimpo - The Championship


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Published: May 28th 2006
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All the players of La Boca
Football in Argentina is a very serious business. They even have a museum for it.
When we visited La Boca football museum and La Bomboñera stadium in a tour, and saw it empty, I was curious about how would it fill when it's full, because although it had 60,000 seats, it looked pretty small.

The match to which I bought a ticket was for the Argentinean Championship, so I hoped it would be exciting.
But in reality it was just one big celebration, because La Boca had already won the championship by a points difference.

One of the fans has told me that it's totally different when the game means anything, and the result is not known in advance, so I was disappointed.

Nevertheless, the stadium was almost full, the fans were singing like crazy, and the game OK.

Oh, and Boca Juniors had of course won.


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Victor Morales's famous quote: "Genius! Genius! Genius! From which planet have you came? Thank you God! For football... For Maradona... For these tears..."
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The painting tells how the team was created
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Maradonas' family

Although supposed to, Maradona himself didn´t show up


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