Up the Bocas
Trip Start
Apr 02, 2008
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Trip End
Jul 31, 2008
Bueno Aires,
Argentina
Sunday, April 6, 2008
We are now back at Bueno Äires and went to see the Boca Juniors last night. We organised the tickets via the hostel - apparently an ex-holligan gets them off the black market (the fans should only have access to them usually), and we went off in an old school bus to a pub for beer and home made pizza. Nice. We then went to the stadium know as the chocolate box (because of all the different layers). We were in the stands behind the goal mouth, and had a great view. The Bocas were playing Banfield (a city about 20 mins away), they drew 1-1, not full squad as they have an internaitonal with Mexico next week. 1st half was a bit boring and you could tell that the team had not played together alot and they went one nil down. Second half they played better, started to gel got a goal back but throughout the crowd were amazing, we were in standing with the main supporters. Extra info: Boca means ´Mouth´, as in mouth of the river. There colours are blue and yellow - this is because another team had the colours they wanted, so they decided to base their colours, by the next flag that came down the river. This ended up being a Swedish ship - hence the blue and yellow. Also, some of you may not know that Boca was Maradona´s old team (the man with the ´hand of God´), and he still goes to the games.
Thats about it for now.
We´re here in Bueno Aires for the next four days so will be doing the city thing (Lou: I will also be making Dave do the Tango thing! Dave: Save me! Louise: not a chance.)
Adios
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