After the reseeding of the grass that forced it to move its home to the Nuevo Gasómetro,
Boca
will play its first game of the year at the
Bombonera
.
It will be this Saturday when they face Defensa y Justicia
from 7:15 p.m.
for the fourth round of the
League Cup
.
In their reunion with the emblematic Brandsen 805 stadium, Xeneizes fans and members will find building news that the club took care to make known, while the pending project is the expansion.
Since
Juan Román Riquelme
was elected as the new president of the club, around the end of 2023, the idol focused on improving the appearance of what he himself baptized as "the patio of his house."
"
If we start all this in a month, imagine what we are going to do in four years
," expresses the video that the blue and gold institution posted on its social networks where it describes each of the renovations.
The fact is that the works not only focused on renewing
the natural grass
, which had to be reseeded due to the wear and tear it suffered as a result of the tents that were set up for the elections.
In parallel to the work of the cancheros, the club carried out several
touch-ups both at the entrances and inside the stadium
: from a complete renovation of the preferential stalls, to new amenities at the time of entry of the fans.
In one month we activated all these works.
Imagine what we can do in 4 years 🛠️👷🏽♂️💙💛💙 pic.twitter.com/nqqFWK4tTH
— Boca Juniors (@BocaJrsOficial) February 9, 2024
Although the works began more than a month ago and the grass is already ready to be released,
it is estimated that it will be fully completed in approximately 20 days
.
Likewise, it did not present any difficulty in withstanding the deluge that fell this Thursday on Buenos Aires.
Within the combo of spare parts outside the grass, the
preferential stalls underwent a change of colors
according to the club's tones: each of the seats were painted, in addition to the fact that the canvases that distance the fans from the substitutes' bench
were no longer blue and white to dye blue and yellow
.
All Blue and Yellow.
Olympic wiring and pipes 🔵🟡🔵.
The pitch will be 10 points in 20 days.
pic.twitter.com/WkqfPosDKx
— Leandro Aguilera (@Tato_Aguilera) February 8, 2024
In addition
, it was decided to completely dismantle the classic presidential box
to give it a new use.
Starting this Saturday, and from now on in each home game, it will be transformed into a box for
10 life members
, selected by lottery, who will have the opportunity to observe the match from that privileged location.
Meanwhile,
Riquelme will continue to use his private box
.
Likewise, not everything happened inside the stadium, but
it was also decided to improve the pavement of the beach through which you enter the stalls
so that the fans have greater comfort.
Even for those members who attend said sector, they will be able to enjoy new bathrooms.
👷♂️❌ THE PRESIDENTIAL BOX OF LA BOMBONERA WAS DISARMED pic.twitter.com/t2MNgQBKWs
— Boca Juniors - La12Tuittera (@la12tuittera) February 6, 2024
As for the main playground, the facilities were improved to facilitate
access to the stadium for the buses
of both the local and visiting teams.
Finally,
a new sports center is also under construction
for the development of other sports outside of football.
Expansion project: Riquelme and his promise to visit the neighbors
"We
dream of our court being bigger
, of having more people. But in my house they taught me that you can't promise something if it belongs to a neighbor. It
even shocks me a little to hit someone's door to make them leave. his house
. It makes me strange," were the words that Riquelme outlined on each occasion in which he was consulted about the remodeling that most worries the Boca fan:
the expansion of the Bombonera
.
However, in the days before the elections, Román promised: "We are going to do things properly. We are going to win the elections and then talk
to the neighbors one by one, we will ask them if they can help us make the Bombonera
. Only then we will see".
But that communication with the owners of the
129 lots bordering
the stadium seems to have not yet occurred.
Likewise, it was through the social networks of the
Slovenian Project
, a plan that receives the approval of a large part of the frontists to expand the field, from where the Xeneizes fans received a hopeful message.
Apparently, the neighbors would be willing to sell their properties.
🚀🔜… 🔵🟡🔵 #SomosBombonera pic.twitter.com/Bbz3wjcl4v
— OFFICIAL ESLOVENO® PROJECT (@EslovenoOficial) January 26, 2024
As it turned out, the frontists took Riquelme's words in a good way and are waiting for the former soccer player to decide to work on an issue that is a source of constant debate and divided positions on the turbulent road to the December polls.
Looking to the future, the so-called Boca world understood that risking political capital to win the seventh Copa Libertadores is too risky a bet.
Therefore, working decisively on the expansion of the stadium would be the matrix that could mark Riquelme's mandate, although there is still no idea about the time that such a challenge will require.
The idea is to go step by step, and the first will take place this Saturday, with the return of the fans to La Bombonera and the premiere of its new renovations.