09/17/2021 4:20 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 09/17/2021 4:20 PM
Twenty years after one of the most glorious stages in the history of Boca, the tail slams of that group led by Carlos Bianchi that reached the top of the world by beating Real Madrid and that continues to be the last team to win two have not stopped. consecutive times the Copa Libertadores.
The internal ones, the egos, the jerks with the leaders, the disputes off the court that were marginalized when the ball began to roll, the bad faces, the shouts of goals ... Everything can be synthesized in two great spheres: the one governed by Martín Palermo and the one headed by Juan Román Riquelme, the two greatest banners of the unforgettable cycle.
“We saw impressive things at the football level. But also, of the others; We saw everyone's children being born ... We weren't friends, we all went out to eat together, each one had their affinity and it's normal.
I experienced the kidnapping of Roman's brother, for example
. We were playing ball and he said that to me. That's why I get excited. The medals and that crap no longer serve me. What I see is that they were badly advised and surrounded to say 'you are more than the other'. But not from them ”,
Cristian Traverso
, a former Boca midfielder
, began his story
when he saw a photo of the celebration in the second goal against Real Madrid in Tokyo.
"IT IS A LIE THAT PALERMO ASKED BIANCHI TO PLAY GUILLERMO"
Traverso denies a historical rumor about Boca de Bianchi in @superfutbol.
"Riquelme and Palermo were badly advised," he said.
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- TyC Sports (@TyCSports) September 17, 2021
Traverso currently works as a panelist in the
Superf Fútbol
program
(TyC Sports) and gave details of that group.
"It was a lie that Martín (Palermo) asked Bianchi to put Guillermo (Barros Schelotto) instead of Chelo (Delgado)," he stressed, to discard the version that indicated
a possible break between the two team leaders in the previous match. match against Madrid
.
Boca's great team that beat Real Madrid 2-1 to win the 2000 Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo.
Photo: Clarín Archive
"One of the protagonists told me about it," he said.
The story was not as some told it.
That's why when you have a problem you have to attack it at the root,
we missed the chance to continue
.
There were people around and leaders who were just trying to bring water to their mill ”.
In this sense, Traverso said that "there was a right time" to determine the separation between Palermo and Riquelme, "but there are events that are happening ..." "I then over the years I learned what it
was like
...
I get
excited because I see these guys and look what they are, they are monsters.
I'm from Boca, I played with them,
”he said through tears.
At the same time, he highlighted Riquelme's courage to get involved in the club's politics and, although he clarified that he is not a friend of Palermo, he
said that he will seek to smooth rough edges and thus end the crack in Boca
.
TRAVERSO, EXCITED TO THE TEARS
The @superfutbol panelist broke when he remembered the intimacies of Boca de Bianchi and spoke about the differences between Riquelme and Palermo.
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- TyC Sports (@TyCSports) September 17, 2021
“The other day I was talking to a boy from that campus and we always remember things. Each later made his life, some did badly, others well and others more or less. But what Román does about having the club's people working there seems very good to me. In the labura club (Claudio) Benetti, who went to ask for a job.
I congratulate Román because he got involved in politics
. And if I have something to say to him, I tell him hand in hand, ”said Traverso.
And he continued: “These guys gave Boca the glory.
The other day I uploaded a photo with Martín (Palermo) and one of them wrote to me… I am not a friend of Martín but I appreciate him very much.
It is not that one is more and the other is less.
The two (for Palermo and Riquelme) are idols of the club.
And I'm going to fight for this, I'm going to fight so that there is no more crack in the club.
And if I have to fight for 20, 30 years, I'm going to do it
because these guys can't be further separated for the convenience of others
”.
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