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Carlos Tevez before a new departure from Boca, traumatic as always and painful as never

2021-06-04T18:30:29.755Z


It happened with Macri in 2004, with Angelici in 2016 and it is repeated with Ameal and Riquelme. The Apache considers leaving the institution he loves, abruptly but listening to his heart.


06/04/2021 1:14 PM

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Updated 06/04/2021 1:14 PM

This gray, cold and rainy Friday June 4, could be marked in the history of

Boca Juniors

forever:

Carlos Tevez

plans to announce that he is leaving the club where he won everything and that he will remember him as one of their greatest idols.

At 37 years of age, the footballer who started kicking stones barefoot in Fuerte Apache and shone around the world will give way to the legend.

It will not be the first time that Carlitos slammed the door in the club of his loves in an untimely way, although this time it is the most painful of all because it is the last.

That postcard of the crack smiling dressed in a kimono and Japanese headband, after winning the

Intercontinental Cup

against Milan, is already part of the history books not only of Boca but of Argentine football: the one with Bianchi in 2003 was the last that had a combined local winning a title at the planetary level.

But as with great love stories, there are no happy breakups and Tevez can attest to this in three different stages of his life, with three very different directives.

It happened with Mauricio Macri in 2004, with Daniel Angelici in 2016 and now with Jorge Amor Ameal and Juan Román Riquelme in 2021.

Carlos Tevez, intercontinental champion in 2003 along with Carlos Bianchi and Guillermo Barros Schelotto.

In November 2004, overwhelmed by extra-football situations typical of a 20-year-old boy who had just been a world champion with Boca and an Olympian with the Argentine National Team, Apache got tired of the demands of the so-called "Mundo Boca" and left for Corinthians, an unusual place for a crack pigeon who painted to land in one of the great ones in Europe.

That destiny of consecration ended up arriving for Carlitos, champion with Manchester United, City and Juventus, but his arrival in Brazilian football was surprising.

A very generous transfer for the coffers of the xeneize club, which received almost 20 million dollars for discarding their jewel.

"Our wish was for him to stay and play the Copa Libertadores. We feel sorry and angry that our best player has played so little time at the club," said the remembered

Pedro Pompilio

, frustrated by not having Tevez in the 2005 continental tournament. Who was Macri's vice president was not wrong: in the centenary year, Boca was categorically eliminated by Chivas de Guadalajara in the quarterfinals.

Tevez and Messi in the 2015 Champions League final. Photo: Reuters / Dylan Martinez.

Fed up with winning leagues, cups and money in the Old World, Tevez kicked the board in 2015 and played his last game in Europe as a starter in a Champions League final, no less. His Juventus lost to Barcelona and a few weeks later he returned to Boca, which had been punished after two cup eliminations against River. The image was a true reflection of Carlitos' sentiment for the Bostero people and the fans for their idol: the doors of the Bombonera were opened just to greet him,

and the stadium was filled

.

The adventure was short-lived: that year, Boca missed the chance to play the 2016 Libertadores final in an unusual way, losing to Independiente del Valle.

And in December, knowing that the team would not play international competitions in 2017, he decided that the best thing was to go to China, to the unknown Shanghai Shenhua.

His departure was sloppy, poorly communicated, and Tevez himself admitted it later, remorsefully.

The episode also marked his relationship with Guillermo Barros Schelotto, who later returned to have him on his campus.

In July 2015, the Boca court was filled to receive his prodigal son.

Carlitos Tevez kissed the grass and began his second spell at the club.

Photo: DYN / PABLO AHARONIAN.

Because Apache returned to the club in 2018, convinced that his next game would be the day he announced his retirement from football.

"I want to win the Libertadores", he considered it as an obsession, recognizing many times that his condition as a fan affected him on the field.

Combining the final 2018 and semis 2019 of the maximum tournament was not enough because the River de Gallardo was always on the other side.

The kid who made the Gallinita in 2004 at the Monumental (and whom the referee Baldassi expelled depriving him to play the final against Once Caldas) found himself fifteen years later the victim of an intractable River.

Coincidentally, history will also say that his last official goal was against his lifelong rival, the afternoon of the Superclásico in which Boca finally defeated the Doll in a cross.

The consolation of this third stage has a separate chapter: the 2020 championship that Boca took from River with Tevez's goal against Gimnasia.

It was on the last date.

The last with fans before the pandemic.

And the last time of Diego Maradona on the Boca court, with that little bit before the start.

Unforgettable.

Tevez and Maradona, a photo to remember.

Photo: EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni.

At 37, with another poise on his body, Carlitos returned to deal with external aspects of football, although less happy than those he "suffered" in 2004. On the one hand, his link with the outgoing leadership of the club, today opposition , which caused discomfort with the current one. On the other hand, the hardest thing, the death of his father in February, after several months of anguish and emotional wear for the Tevez family. In this time, between trips and games every three or four days, the Apache could never do the necessary mourning for losing who was a fundamental pillar in his family.

The chance to play the final phase of the Libertadores would not have been enough to convince him to continue.

On the way there was also another clash with River for the Argentine Cup.

In the midst of conflicting versions, a thousand calls and last minute conversations, Carlitos made his decision that he will communicate in a matter of hours.

He plans to leave Boca but this time forever.

And no one will be able to blame him for anything.

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Source: clarin

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