A few hours after his debut on the Boca bench, Diego Martínez tested two teams for the first friendly of 2024

The coach of Boca Juniors, Diego Martineza team stopped this Thursday in morning training in view of the friendly match that will mark its debut at the helm of “Xeneize” next Saturday in Jumpin view of Gymnastics and shootingrecently promoted to the First National Team.

The first team that the Boca coach put on the field was made up of Sergio “Chiquito” Romero; Luis Advíncula, Nicolás Figal, Marcos Rojo and Frank Fabra; Jabes Saralegui, Jorman Campuzano, Guillermo “Pol” Fernández and Lucas Janson; Miguel Merentiel and Darío “Pipa” Benedetto.

The second team stopped by the coach featured Javier García; Lucas Blondel, Cristian Lema, Aaron Anselmino, Marcelo Saracchi; Ezequiel Bullaude, the young Mauricio Benítez, Juan Ramírez, Vicente Taborda; Luca Langoni and Edinson Cavani.

Even though he has no precedent in that position, Lucas Janson has been a hook, as has Vicente Taborda, who has a record of games playing in that position of connection between the midfield and the attack.

Everything suggests that the first team, with some last minute adjustments, will be the one to start from the beginning the beginning of Diego Martínez’s cycle at the helm of the Ribera club, in a season in which Boca will play in addition to local tournaments, the South American Cup.

Boca, which carries out its preseason on the ownership that the club has in the Buenos Aires match Ezeizahe trained this morning in the first round, when the coach arranged football training with two competitive teams.

The only reinforcement so far is the defender Cristian Lema, played for the second team, while in the first team the young Jabes Saralegui, 20 years old, did an excellent job, followed very closely by the technical staff. The Uruguayan Merentiel stood out in attack.

As for the other Uruguayan players in the squad, Edinson Cavani AND Marcelo Saracchirecovered from various injuries and trying to regain his footballing rhythm, he played for the second team.

The players called up by the Argentine Under 23 team that will play the pre-Olympic tournament in Venezuela are absent: the goalkeeper Leandro Breythe defender Nicola Valentiniand midfielders Ezequiel “Equi” Fernández and Cristian Medina.

He is also part of that team Valentine’s Day boatalready separated from Boca after having stipulated the release clause (today the money was credited to the club’s accounts) to continue his career in English football.

To complete the double shift, this afternoon the team will work again in Ezeiza and tomorrow, Friday, they will carry out a single shift, given that in the afternoon the players and technical staff will go to Jumpto play Saturday against Gimnasia y Tiro.

After facing the Salta team, Boca will work again next week at the Ezeiza stadium and on Saturday 20th they will play a friendly match against Cordoba laboratories at the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium. And with a date to be defined, there will be a behind closed doors friendly match against Central Barracks.

Looking for an important reinforcement in the midfield attacker, Boca will persist in incorporating the left midfielder Kevin Zenoof the Union of Santa Fe. The “tatengue” asks for 4 million dollars and the Boca management offers 3 million for 80% of the transfer, but the player’s entourage are optimistic and believe that it will materialize.

Tickets for Saturday’s friendly match Salta Summer Cup 2024which will be played from 9.00pm at the Padre Ernesto Martearena stadium, went on sale this morning, in person and online.

Tickets can be purchased in person at the Martearena stadium until 7pm for Boca fans, while they are also sold via the self-entry system, via the digital web portal http://www.autoentrada.com.

The Gimnasia y Tiro team will be able to purchase tickets at the ticket offices of their stadium, at the intersection of Vicente López and Leguizamón streets, in the capital Salta. Prices are as follows: 10 thousand pesos for the popular ones; 15 thousand preferential; and 20 thousand stalls.