River vs Boca: previous banner with players and ‘full-length’ welcome from ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ fans

As usual on these occasions, River fans get ready a welcome that is said to be historic for Martín Demichelis’ team to the playing field of the Monumental stadium, where they will face Boca this Sunday, in a new Superclásico of Argentine football, this time for the 15th date of the Professional League.

During the week, the River Fans Subcommittee summoned members to assist in the party meeting, especially after the blow Núñez’s team received when they were beaten by fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, for the Copa Libertadores.

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Then, the aids multiplied, with the intention of relieving spirits and resurrecting the spirit in the face of confrontation against the eternal rival. For this Sunday’s reception, more than 1,700 banners which will be distributed in the lower grandstands of the Monumentale.

Meanwhile, in the rest of the stands, there will be more of them 80,000 red and white balloons which will form the flag of the Greatest. The so-called “pendorchos” will be in Sivori, Belgrano and Centenario, while in the upper San Martín will open a huge curtain.

It is the gigantic ‘rag’ that has the face of idols (Beto Alonso, Ramón Díaz, Enzo Francescoli, Ángel Labruna, Amadeo Carrizo, Burrito Ortega, Marcelo Gallardo and Leo Ponzio). The flag measures 120 meters long by 25 meters wide and weighs 1,100 kilos. it almost took 200 people to raise it to the top of the aforementioned stalls.

It won’t be the only curtain: the Supporters’ Subcommittee has saved a new curtain, which will be presented this Sunday at the Superclásico. As far as he could find out clarionthe flag would be in the shape of a giant T-shirt, with the 2018 format and with a legend linked to the Madrid final: “The M4s Gr4nde of history”.

Beyond the curtains, there will be white and red smoke for the reception and fireworks that will be set off behind the San Martín stalls, as is customary before every important match. and there will be more surprises more than the fans’ subcommittee has prepared.

This welcome will be the continuation of the cheer that the fans gave to the players on Saturday evening, when they summoned themselves to the club’s beach (a few meters from the team’s concentration centre, right in front of the pastry shop) to make a banner, in which there is they were drums, rockets and wooden flags, as well as the usual court songs.

After holding their breath for a long time, the players appeared one by one, in single file, through a sort of fence specially set up to get closer to the fans. There they experienced the warmth and color of the people up close, who started singing louder and louder. thundered the “whatever the cost tomorrow / that tomorrow we must win”.

The players appreciated the show of affection and returned to concentration. They were already bathed in the popular warmth of River fans who promise to continue this afternoon to deliver a reception they say will be historic and atmospheric.