Rodrigo4073
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"Boca, i carry you on my soul"
- This story will be my first one, and my attempt to bring back the glory to Boca Juniors, the team I love, adopting the role of the legendary Boca Juniors coach, Carlos Bianchi. I will only sign players who have played in Boca or recognised fans of the club, and use only the players that my youth academy provides. I will post results twice a year, and will post regularly off-the-game content, like info about the players, the fans, so you can relate to the story a little bit more. And as i said, my main goal is to make Boca Juniors a big team in the world, competing again face to face with the world giants like Real Madrid, AC Milan and Bayern Munich, for example.
- Boca Juniors is the most successful football team in Argentina, and one of the most successful in the world, having won more than 50 official titles to date. Internationally, the team has won 18 titles, a record shared with AC Milan.
The club was founded on 3 April 1905 by five Italian immigrants. Boca has always had a fierce rivalry with River Plate, also from Buenos Aires. Matches between the two clubs are known as the Superclasico and are one of the most heated rivalries in Argentina and the world as both clubs are the two most popular in the country. Boca's home stadium is Estadio Alberto J. Armando, which is colloquially known as La Bombonera.
The youth academy has produced many Argentine internationals such as Nicolas Burdisso, Carlos Tevez, Ever Banega, and Fernando Gago, who have played or are playing for top European clubs. The club has also had a lot of very important players such as Diego Maradona, Juan Roman Riquelme (still in activity), Claudio Canniggia or Gabriel Batistuta, amongst a lot more.
Boca Juniors is traditionally regarded as the club of Argentina's working class, in contrast with the supposedly more upper-class base of cross-town arch rival River Plate.
Boca Juniors claims to be the club of "half plus one" (la mitad m?s uno) of Argentina's population.
- Former Velez Sarsfield coach Carlos Bianchi arrived at the club in 1998 and under his command, the squad would achieve multiple local and international titles, breaking the record obtained with Juan Carlos Lorenzo in the 1970s. With Carlos Bianchi as coach, Boca won 9 titles.
The first title obtained was the 1998 Apertura, which Boca won being undefeated for the first time. Mart?n Palermo was the top scorer with 20 goals in 19 matches played. Boca later won a new championship in the 1999 Clausura becoming successive champions. The team remained undefeated in 40 matches, breaking the record of 39 matches achieved by Racing Club in the 1960s. This mark is still a record in the professional era of Argentine football.
The year 2000 was the most successful for Boca Juniors. The team won the Copa Libertadores, and as the new South America champion, Boca went to Tokyo to play the Intercontinental Cup final against Real Madrid, defeating the Merengue team 2?1 (goals by Palermo). The same year Boca won another local title, the Torneo Apertura, totaling 3 titles in 2000.
In 2001 Boca were Copa Libertadores champion again, defeating Cruz Azul in a penalty-shootout.
Bianchi left the club in 2002 due to a conflict with the chairman Mauricio Macri. Nevertheless, Bianchi would return the following year to take care the team again. In 2003, Boca obtained a new title winning the Copa Libertadores for the 3rd time in 4 years. Boca Juniors completed another successful year winning the Intercontinental Cup against AC Milan.
Boca reached another Copa Libertadores final in 2004, but lost to Once Caldas. Once the Cup was over, Bianchi resigned, finishing one of the most successful periods in the club history.
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