Boca and the 2024 premiere at the Bombonera: the works on the stadium and the expansion that Riquelme has imposed

After the reseeding of the grass which forced him to move his headquarters to the Nuevo Gasómetro, Mouth will play its first game of the year in candy box. It will be this Saturday when they face each other from 7.15pm to 7pm Defense and Justice for the fourth appointment of League Cup. In their reunion with the emblematic Brandsen 805 stadium, the fans and members of the Xeneizes will find building innovations that the club has taken care to make known, while the pending project is the expansion.

From Juan Roman Riquelme Elected as the club’s new president at the end of 2023, the idol has focused on improving the appearance of what he himself has christened as “the patio of his house”.

“If we start all this in a month, imagine what we’ll be doing in four years“, expresses the video that the bluoro institution posted on its social networks in which it describes each of the renovation works. The fact is that the works did not focus only on the renovation natural grasswhich had to be replanted due to wear and tear incurred due to the tents erected for the elections.

In parallel with the work of the cancheros, the club has created several touch-ups both at the entrances and inside the stadium: from the complete renovation of the preferential seating area, to the new concessions for the entry of fans.

Although the works began more than a month ago and the grass is already ready to be cleared, It is estimated that it will be completed in an approximate period of 20 days.. Likewise, he presented no difficulty in resisting the deluge that hit Buenos Aires on Thursday.

Within the combo of spare parts other than grass, the the preferential stands have undergone a color change according to the tone of the club: all the seats have been painted, added to the canvas that distances the fans from the substitutes’ bench They stopped being blue and white and became blue and yellow..

Moreoverit was decided to completely dismantle the classic presidential stage to give it a new use. Starting this Saturday, and from now on every home game, it will be transformed into a box for 10 lifetime members, selected by draw, who will have the opportunity to observe the match from that privileged position. While, Riquelme will continue to use his private garage.

Likewise, not everything happened inside the stadium, but also It was decided to improve the paving of the beach through which the audience is accessed so that fans have greater comfort. Members who frequent this sector will also be able to use new bathrooms.

As regards the main beach, the structures have been improved to facilitate use access to the bus stadium both local and visiting teams. Finally, too A new sports center is under construction for the development of other sports outside of football.

Expansion project: Riquelme and his promise to visit his neighbors

“We we dream that our field is biggerso that more people come in. But in my house they taught me that you can’t promise something if it comes from a neighbor. It even shocks me a little to knock on someone’s door to get them to leave the house.. It makes me strange”, were the words that Riquelme uttered on every occasion in which he was consulted on the restructuring that worries Boca fans the most: the expansion of the Bombonera.

However, in the days before the elections, Román had promised: “We will do things well. We will win the elections and then we talk one by one with the neighbors, we will ask them if they help us make the Bombonera. Only then we’ll see.” But that communication with the owners of 129 neighboring lots at the stadium it doesn’t seem to have happened yet.

Likewise, it was through the social networks of Slovenian project, a plan that receives the approval of a large part of the fans of the front to expand the pitch, from which the Xeneizes fans received a message of hope. Apparently the neighbors would be willing to sell their properties.

In reality, the frontists have taken Riquelme’s words well and are waiting for the former footballer to decide to work on an issue that is a source of continuous debates and divided positions in the turbulent path towards the December elections.

Looking to the future, the so-called Boca world has understood that risking political capital to win the seventh Copa Libertadores is too risky a gamble. Working decisively on the expansion of the stadium, therefore, would be the blueprint that could mark Riquelme’s mandate, even if we still have no ideas about the time frame such a challenge will require.

The idea is to proceed step by step, and the first will take place this Saturday, with the return of fans to the Bombonera and the premiere of its new renovation works.