Boca Game

Ok, so after only getting about 3 1/2 hours sleep, I had to get ready to go to the Boca Juniors Game. For those of you that don´t know, or haven´t read my brother´s email, Boca Juniors is an Argentina football team, and is probably one of the most well known, in the Libertador Cup, which is the South American Cup. This game isn´t really all that important, because they play in the finals for the Libertador Cup on wedneday, and this is just a game for the Argentina Cup. Still it is an opportunity to see a football game in S. America.

ALso it was an opportunity to see them in their stadium, The Bombonera, which means chocolate box. Today they are playing Belligrano, a team from Cordaba. Their fans area already jammed packed into the opposing team cheering section. You see because of past violence, the opposing fans are sat seperatly from the Boca fans. In fact there are guards that are lined near the wall that seperates the two sides. Along with a 8 foot glass wall and barbed wire. They don´t joke around here. We get there early. It´s a beautiful sunny day,so we are lucky. Kick off is at 2 and by that time the rowdy Boca fans are present as well. Each team has songs that they sing and jump up and down to. Unfortunatly we were in the mild section, no jumping. So it was exciting to see the fans yell, scream and sing all throughout the game. Boca scores a goal and everyone is on their feet, yelling. It´s great fun. The rest of the game was pretty slow, a good couple shots on goal, a few bad goals, that go heckling from the crowds, but other than that, pretty boring. Still it was one of the things that I wanted to see when I was there. It should be something everyone does in S. America!