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Riquelme plays again: Villarreal invited him to participate in a friendly match with other club legends

2023-03-03T22:11:22.690Z


For its centenary, the Valencian club is preparing, among other festivities, a friendly against the Spanish team. But Román would also travel to Europe to listen to offers for some Boca players.


While

Hugo Ibarra

and his team are still enjoying another Olympic round after winning the Argentine Super Cup, work is underway at

Boca Predio

for the match on Monday night at La Bombonera (with a special reception to celebrate another title) against Defense and Justice, a tough rival in this Professional League.

However, in the bowels of the club they are moving towards a year that will be crossed by elections, but also with agreements that are close to being closed.

In this setting, Juan Román Riquelme was formally invited by Villarreal, who will organize

a Legends match against the Spanish National Team for its centenary on March 25 at the La Cerámica stadium

.

An institution in which he played 145 games, he scored 45 goals and provided 49 assists in times when the club went from being a modest team in Spain to reaching the semifinals of the Champions League.

There, as in Boca, he is an idol.

And that is why he is seriously thinking about putting on his shorts again to jump onto the court and play again in that tribute for which he was invited along with other former teammates.

The appointment also coincides with the FIFA date on which the different teams will have friendly matches.

But also with the draw for the Copa Libertadores in Asunción, a place to which he was also invited and with which, through connections, he could come from Spain to accompany President Jorge Ameal and the Secretary General, Ricardo Rosica.

Because the idea is to travel to Europe not only to play for Villarreal:

Riquelme knows that the World Cup opened the eyes of the soccer planet for young Argentines and that in the mid-year transfer window proposals will come from everywhere

by Alan Varela. , Ezequiel Fernández, Luca Langoni, Valentín Barco and also Luis Vázquez, just to mention some of the kids from Boca Predio who were promoted at this time and who already had polls from different places.

Mateo Retegui also has chances to emigrate to Europe and Boca still retains 50 percent of his pass (the other half must be paid by Tigre at 2.5 million dollars).

If Román flies, it will be to play outside and inside the field, now in his new managerial role. 

This invitation also goes hand in hand with a series of proposals that Boca has been receiving in recent times for different tours that could not be carried out due to the pandemic and that later, due to the compression of the calendar, were discarded.

Now even from the low it slips that one (or both?) pending finals against River could be sold abroad:

Miami, Arabia and Qatar are some of the destinations mentioned.

Also China, although its remoteness would upset the plans to do it in the middle of the season and again it would be postponed until the end of the year or the beginning of 2024. 

But while these movements await, Boca has already immediately agreed to a new sponsor for his shirt (the DirecTV signal) in exchange for 2.5 million dollars for three seasons and is deciding which brand will keep the central sponsorship in the central strip of the jacket: Codere (Spain) and Esportes da Sorte (Brazil) are two betting houses looking for that site, in exchange for 5 million dollars per season.

For now, they are the companies that are bidding the strongest, while a surplus of millions of pesos in the club's treasury is being prepared for half a year, but with projected works in the Boca Predio to expand the facilities: will they begin to build the concentration over there?

For now, small "dormis" have been made so that there is rest for the Reserve players, similar to those that already exist in Casa Amarilla.

It is that they have already won 6 titles in less than 4 years (they won the same titles as the previous management in 8 and far surpassed Mauricio Macri's first 4 years at the club) and now they will also aim to grow in other areas. 

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Source: clarin

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