The absent leaders

Boca’s impressive popularity was repeated in La Rioja on the set of the Copa Argentina match that the team led by Sebastián Battaglia beat Iron from 1 to 0. This is a well-known story that seems to feed itself every time a club delegation travels to any part of the country. Stain.

This phenomenon is what multiplies every event that occurs in the bowels of the campus or around the entire management structure, to put it in some way. Everything seems to have greater gravity when it comes to Boca. If he plays well or if he plays poorly. If it wins, if it draws or if it loses.

And now led – in addition to the administrative heads led by President Jorge Ameal – in the purely football area by Juan Román Riquelme, the immovable idol of the last 30 years, and by an important list of former footballers, chosen by him, for the various functions related to all the activity of the lower divisions of the club. Riquelme is in the managerial apprenticeship phase. But he deals with her with his particular ways.

Speak only to the press of your choice and at the time you prefer. Even if the broadcasts he wants to circulate are done through his teams (the Football Council, for example). He knows what Boca means and his charisma is enough to simplify the statements. With your usual codes.

Leaving aside the judicial issue that seriously compromises Sebastián Villa – paradoxically the key player of the team – the ups and downs of recent times in the operation have not hindered the arrival of numerical success in tournaments: sample comes out. For one reason or another. He prevailed in the “hand in hand” (even with River, his “executioner” in those cases, lately). We move from one celebration to another even if no one can clearly explain the reasons.

This is football, of course. And the reasons must be taken care of before exposing them to the unpredictability of that beautiful game.