Assumption or Miami. Medellin and Paris. None of them. The back of the Libertadores Cup final will be played in Madrid. And then began to burn the groups of WhatsApp of argentines in Spain. “We can not believe it, this was not expecting anyone. Look at the positive side, we’re going to have a Mouth here. Since this morning the rumour was, constantly getting messages. We are more than 400 in the group, imagine the chaos,” explains Elias Sanchez, vice president of Passion Xeneize, peña Boca Juniors in Barcelona. “The party had to play in the stadium of River, we all wanted to play in the Monumental. At least, now, we’re going to be able to go to see the end. We have it close,” adds Marcelo, former president, of the branch of a River in the Catalan capital.
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In Spain, the two giants of Argentina have nine rocks. The mouth has five (Barcelona, Andorra, Valencia, Madrid and Mallorca), and River, four (Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Malaga). Different colors, calcada melancholy. What began as a small group of friends gathered to watch the matches of the Super league has become organized peñas, able to activate ties with Buenos Aires. “When you came in Mouth to play the Gamper (the 15th of August they lost to Barcelona 3-0) was amazing. We organized a party in which participated the president Daniel Angelici. Let us go to the hotel where they were concentrated, we talked with the players. Impressive,” recalls Artemisbet Elijah.
Same formula used by the fans of River. Before the box Núñez played the final of the World cup of Clubs in front of the club in Japan in 2015, Enzo Francescoli, athletic director, and Rodolfo D’ Onofrio, president, were in the Catalan capital. “We did a barbecue for them, and I was sitting next to the Enzo. I counted the kicks that gave Astrada to Aimar in the training”, explains Marcelo.
A contact that is not lost. DOnofrio had 10 entries (paid) to each of the rock River in Spain so that they could go to watch the final at the Monumental. The tickets arrived, the party doesn’t. “I have a bar in Mataró and the Monday after the suspension, didn’t know what to explain to customers. A failure in the world, a lack of respect for the football”, said the swelling of the Mouth, and Elias Sanchez. The excitement, the shameful indifference. “I lowered the decibels. The fear of losing does not exist. Now I don’t know what to feel, I guess that I will have that adrenaline. I don’t know”, complete Marcelo, a follower of the River.
From Buenos Aires to Madrid, different methods of organization in order to not miss the final. “In the first leg, we had to reserve a site for up to 800 people. Now, we must prepare for the trip to the Bernabeu,” says Elias. It will not be the first time. In march the rocks of River and Boca in Barcelona organised the scroll to see the friendly between Spain and the selection of Sampaoli in the Wanda Metropolitan (6-1). “We hired several coaches, took us back and forth 40 euros each person. We arrived to Madrid at seven in the morning and return after the party. We will have to do the same thing,” says Elijah. Yes, each peña made his trip. It was not a question of joining, or even under the colors of Argentina. “We did a banderazo at the door of Wanda, they in the station of the Metro” says Marcelo. Neither in Buenos Aires nor in Madrid, nostalgia ata in the same cry to the fans of Boca and River.
