The phrase
"it's much more than football"
sometimes loses meaning because it is said so many times, however, there are times when that phrase is the very expression of why football is the sport that moves the most people on the planet.
The afternoon in which
Edinson
Cavani
scored three goals against Belgrano de Córdoba had a luxury spectator:
Silvia Macchi de Buggini , a
67-year-old
woman
who had gone to see Boca for
the first time in her life
.
Her granddaughter
Milena
published
a video of the experience on
Tik Tok and
it went viral
.
Milena was the one who got her a
guest ticket
.
“We spent the whole day before with my mother on the Soy Socio page because she wanted to make a guest entry apart from mine,
we spent hours
in front of the computer,” she says.
Milena said that fulfilling
her grandmother's dream
was also a wish for her: “Fulfilling this dream was fulfilling a dream of mine too, seeing her so happy,
seeing what Boca generates
.
Boca is more than a football club,
it is a family
.”
When they told Silvia that she was going to go to Boca's field, she was moved to tears.
The woman took the opportunity to tell every person she met in
La Boca
that it was her first time on the court.
"The fans
were super excited about my grandmother
, she told them that it was her first time, even to the police officers who were there," and adds that everyone was happy for her grandmother and recognized the camaraderie that exists in
La Boca
.
Silvia is from
Moreno
, Province of Buenos Aires, her mother was the one who passed on her fanaticism for Boca.
"
My mother was a big fan of Boca
, she cried for Boca," says Silvia and adds that for her
Boca is everything
"it's waiting for Sunday to watch the game, listen to it, be happy, cry, bitch when you lose, that's Boca."
Video
His granddaughter fulfilled his dream of going to see the field to see Xeneize.
The night before, Silvia almost
couldn't sleep
due to the nerves of knowing that the next day she would fulfill a lifelong dream.
"I woke up very early, my stomach hurt and I was very anxious,
but I was happy
."
"I didn't imagine that at this point in my life I would be able to go see the Boca field and watch a game,
I thought it was a joke
," explains Silvia.
She also says that as they were walking down the street, and the stadium came into view, she couldn't believe what she was seeing, she was surprised by the people
singing and dancing in the street
.
Silvia did not know the neighborhood and was able to pass by where the fans gather on Irala Street to preview the game.
"I was surprised by the buses that were full of people going to the field."
Silvia
never believed that it would be possible
to share that moment with her granddaughter.
The entrance to the stadium
“When I climbed the stairs and saw the field I cried, my heart burst out, I looked at it and I couldn't believe what was there,” Silvia says excitedly about the moment of seeing the grass and
the stands for the first time
.
Seeing how people were singing and jumping as the field filled made Silvia
get more and more excited
.
Video
This was Silvia's reaction, moved to tears, when she was finally able to enter the field of the club of her loves.
"I was excited when the players came out. When the rivals came in, people whistled at them and I told them
'no, don't whistle at them, poor things,'
" the lady jokes and adds that she was so excited that she looked at everything that was happening around her.
About the moment when the field was filled, Silvia said: "The field was filled and my
hair stood on end
, I had seen it on TV, but
I couldn't believe it
there ."
The match
The woman from Morena laughs when she remembers that
she did not know the fans' songs
, but as the game progressed
she learned it and sang along with
the rest of the fans.
“She is an older person, but he drew strength from where he didn't have it and jumped on the court, he
didn't stop jumping
,” adds her granddaughter.
“I'm not one to say bad words ,
I
also cursed,” Silvia jokes and adds that when she lowered a flag from the north stand that said
Riquelme
's phrase
: "I was born a boster thanks to my dad and I'm going to die a boster like all of you." He couldn't believe what his eyes were seeing and he wondered
how they were going to get it up later
.
The new flag of the people of Boca in La Bombonera: it premiered vs.
Belgrano for #CopaDeLaLiga and is dedicated to Riquelme.
pic.twitter.com/vg8lhvSxtZ
— SportsCenter (@SC_ESPN) March 3, 2024
“It was the game in which Cavani scored three goals, I say that
my grandmother made him mad
,” says Milena.
Silvia also says that the experience of seeing the field and the experience of a match at La Bombonera
"was much more than I expected
. "
The return home
After the game Milena made a
Tik Tok
recording her grandmother's entire experience that went viral in a matter of seconds.
It reached more than
400 thousand
views on the social network and
90 thousand
likes.
In her comments, the
Xeneize
community left happy messages to her and her grandmother for having been able to live that experience.
“
I wouldn't go to La 12
, I'm scared there, I think they're going to crush me,” says Silvia about the party that takes place in the popular neighborhoods of Boca and especially in the sector where the
La Ribera
team's barracks are located. .
The excitement of seeing your club for the first time
"We could see the court during the day and then at night, that was wonderful," says Silvia.
On her return, Milena says that
her grandmother continued singing and jumping
, the two were full of happiness for having been able to fulfill this dream together.