06/01/2020 - 17:38
- Clarín.com
- sports
35 years ago a situation occurred that created a historic stir in Argentine soccer. Something not so common at the time and almost impossible to occur today: Ricardo Gareca and Oscar Ruggeri passed no less than Boca to River. Both, raised in the lower divisions of Xeneize , left the club that saw them born to wear the shirt of rivals of a lifetime.
"What a quilombo Ruggeri put me in going from Boca to River, please! No, it was not his fault, ha. Imagine, at that time we got into a barbarous quilombo", recalled a smiling Tigre Gareca in dialogue with Libero by TyC Sports.
Gareca and Ruggeri with the River shirt.
Although convinced that the change was the best for his career, the DT of the Peruvian team said that he intended to stay in Boca , but the situation of the club made it somewhat impossible: "Today I think it is unthinkable, we did not want to go, to What River gave us, we stayed in the middle. But the situation was so gloomy, so desperate ... They couldn't give us anything, it was an unthinkable situation, unprecedented in the history of Boca. We had to live that moment to ourselves. " Of course: in the mid-eighties, Boca went through a very strong economic crisis in which the possibility of having to finish off the Bombonera even flew over.
El Tigre had an opaque passage through River, where he played 12 games in River and scored four goals . Shortly after, he moved to América de Cali , a team with which he would reach the final of the 1986 Copa Libertadores with Julio César Falcioni and Carlos Ischia to face the Millionaire . The Cup would be finished by raising Oscar Ruggeri and the rest of the Núñez team.
A few months ago, Ruggeri remembered the change of sidewalk and was harder with the situation he had to face in the Xeneize . "They did not pay me in Boca, I did not charge a month, I was eight months without charging r. I do not regret anything at all, because I wish they had been at the time I was there. They stole everything, " said Cabezón .
