Boca Juniors enjoyed a valuable victory in the Superclassic against River Plate. After five years, he won again at Monumental thanks to an outstanding performance by his goalkeeper, Agustín Rossi, and a move by Sebastián Villa, which took advantage of a carelessness of Leandro González Pirez, and resolved in a great way before the departure of Franco Armani. Once the visit got the upper hand, he was poised and had the chance to expand the score, but he had the man under the three suits as his top figure.
After the triumph, the one who appeared on the scene was Juan Román Riquelme. The greatest idol in the club's history talked about why Boca wore the yellow shirt and other themes, but also took the opportunity to express the particular way he has to watch the matches at home when the team led by Sebastián Battaglia does not play in the Bombonera.
“I watch Boca matches with low volume and listen to music, so I choose who plays badly and who is the best me. I don't need the guy on TV to tell me. That's what I do and I got used to it,” confessed the vice president of Xeneize in dialogue with T and C Sports late in the morning.
Then, when they asked him if he had any kind of music or band that he chose to listen to while he is enjoying the meeting, JR clarified it without problems. “I listen to cumbia, always. In Don Torcuato you can hear cumbia. I like Los Angeles Azules, Leo Mattioli, a little bit of everything...”, he added.
In addition to referring to how he sees his team's matches, Riquelme took advantage of the note to speak to one of his most faithful hillsides in his first stage as a xeneize player. Precisely, someone with whom, according to rumors that circulated in the Boca world, had fought after his refusal to join the Football Council with other historians who wore the blue and gold jersey.
“I don't talk much about my personal life, but if I'm lucky enough to be in the club now it's because of all the teammates I had in Boca. We enjoyed ourselves a lot and had amazing times. Traverso was my roommate for many years and he knows that I love him very much,” explained the leader today from Ezeiza's premises while the former defender and volante watched attentively from the studios of the TV channel.
What did Traverso answer? “I want to make it clear to people that we are not fighting, there is always a salami that says such things.”
Then, Juan Román continued to deepen his relationship with someone who was important in Carlos Bianchi's first stage as a coach. “He knows that he always counts on me and that this is his club, he always has his doors open. For me to be sitting here today, it's because he helped me a lot,” he added.
Finally, Riquelme referred to the new analyst role of his former partner and made it clear to Traverso how fond he is for him. “Sometimes Cristian gets angry because our team doesn't play well, it's part of their job too and you have to understand it. It hurts when Boca loses and I know he's happy when we win. You know fat that I love you very much.”
Beyond these themes, the historic number 10 also took the time to take stock of what the classic left in Núñez and his look at the xeneize triumph.
“We are happy. The classics are complicated and have to be won. The fan is very happy and that is thanks to the players, the coaching staff. We are very grateful. I always think we have to play well, but I was also lucky enough to be a football player and defend these colors and we knew that when we had to go to our rival's court, our goalkeeper would have to cover some of them. Oscar (Córdoba) always did it very well. Whoever plays at home will always have goal situations, yesterday I heard that they said that we were lucky, that we hit a little, but the classics are like that and in our house we played three classics since we returned to the club and we should have won 2 or 3 to 0 and we could never score the second goal. In those classics they hit a lot and yesterday it was up to us,” said Román.
And finally, he filled Rossi, the figure with praise. “Augustine has been saving very well for a long time, not yesterday. It is very nice to see him like this, he is enjoying it a lot and we trust him. He has many years ahead of him and I hope we can enjoy it a lot.”
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