Nicolas Coppa
07/24/2021 11:25 PM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 07/24/2021 11:25 PM
If it were a movie, it can be said that Boca week had a happy ending. Yes, he was eliminated from the Copa Libertadores in the round of 16, postponing his "obsession" to reach the seventh. He suffered the injustice of the VAR, he fought with Conmebol, with the Brazilian police, spent the night in a bus believing he respected the health bubble and, as if that were not enough, when he arrived in Buenos Aires he collided with the Professional Football League and the Government , with the first because he did not reschedule his tournament matches and with the second because he did not have contemplations and determined that the team was isolated for seven days in a hotel.
Until the happy ending came.
It seems little compared to everything Boca left in Belo Horizonte.
But the tie of Sebastián Battaglia's kids, with 9 debutants among the initial 11, restored the spirit to an institution that received blows from all sides in a matter of days, most without deserving it.
Sebastián Battaglia, proud of the performance of the Boca boys.
Photo: ALEJANDRO PAGNI / AFP.
The first signal came Saturday afternoon, from the hotel where the campus is isolated.
The footballers and the coaching staff sent messages of encouragement to the boys who would go out on the field.
The question was to show up, compete and try to measure up.
To say it in Creole, avoid the paper.
And boy did they.
Then Juan Román Riquelme appeared at the Banfield stadium, encouraging the youth and standing strong against Marcelo Tinelli, director of the LPF.
Román did not arrive alone at Florencio Sola, along with 10 were Chelo Delgado, Negro Ibarra, Pablo Ledesma, Blas Giunta, Chicho Serna and other xeneizes symbols.
"Come on, let's go kids, let's go, let's go kids ...", they shouted on several occasions from the Florencio Sola box.
Throughout the meeting, they were seen laughing, lamenting for some lost occasion and breaking their hands to applaud the boys who had to lead in different youth categories of the club.
🎶 Come on, let's go kids!
💛 #TodosConLosPibes
👊 #DaleBocaEh pic.twitter.com/CQNZFC3UMM
- Planeta Boca Juniors (in 🏡) (@PlanetaBoca) July 24, 2021
It is that Boca was up to the task, did not shrink and was surprised to become owner of the process of the game from the beginning.
He had several chances to open the scoring and the rain made the night of the South even more epic.
One day after turning 17 years old,
Valentín Barco
played his second game in the Boca Primera as if he were 100 with the blue and gold jersey.
On a climb to the left he tried to throw a pipe at Alexis Maldonado, who did not take it well.
El Colo grabbed the ball and faced the defender, who was almost two meters tall.
The Colo Barco very nervous in his second game in first (?).
#MiraloEnBocaTV.
pic.twitter.com/G1uDmIl4hc
- Boca TV Play (@BocaTVPlay) July 25, 2021
A while later he had to leave the court, cramped.
It was the image that marked the end of the game, with the boys paying for the effort to compete against opponents of greater physical strength and with the addition of having played the day before, on Friday morning, for the Reserve tournament.
Boca almost won it throughout the game, and Banfield almost took it away, wounded in pride by feeling outmatched by a team that he should have beaten.
It was 0 to 0 but the result ended up being nothing more than an anecdote.
🎶 LET'S GO, LET'S GO THE PIBEEEEEEEEEEEEES!
#TodosConLosPibes 💛 💙pic.twitter.com / Y0PH8xkGc5
- Planeta Boca Juniors (in 🏡) (@PlanetaBoca) July 25, 2021
After the final whistle of Echavarría, the youngsters from Boca stayed on the court to take a picture.
And then the locker room exploded, happy for the mischief they had just done.
It was the ending dreamed of.
For Boca, its leaders and fans, the certainty that there is a future.
A sentiment that was reflected by the statements after the game, highlighting the dedication and daring of the players.
And a finale signed by a group of little kids full of dreams but still with an amateur spirit, the best way to leave behind a week in which miseries and pettiness overshadowed the club's day-to-day life.
On Tuesday it will be the turn to receive San Lorenzo, who will arrive at La Bombonera advised of what awaits him.
Marcos Rojo, full with the kids from Boca from the hotel where the campus is isolated.
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