2023-11-04 08:06:30
Nobody could imagine that the insults in the match against Deportivo Pereira, on Tuesday, April 18, for the second round of Group F, were going to lead to this final at the Maracaná with 50, 70 or 100 thousand Boca fans in Rio de Janeiro , Rio’s flag, bostero fervor in the Cidade Maravilhosa. That climate of hostility, which translated into songs against the players for the first time in 25 years at the Bombonera, was extinguished by a timely goal from Advíncula, perhaps the starting point of this pilgrimage to Brazil. Boca is not a local in Rio, because its rival is born and raised in that city, but it is not a visitor either. Thus he waits for the glorious day that will allow him to become King of Cups.
It is a pilgrimage as pagan as it is real. Brian Suárez and Fabricio Lugo know this, who pedaled 2,600 kilometers from San Justo to Copacabana. It took nine days. They don’t have tickets, but they don’t care much either. “This Boca party is unforgettable, it was worth every pedal stroke,” they assured the state agency Télam. Juan José Gómez, Hugo Amarilla and Ezequiel Almada, from the Peña del Fin del Mundo in Ushuaia, also know this, who traveled by bus from their city to Río Gallegos, from there they took a plane to Buenos Aires and from the Argentine capital they left to Rio de Janeiro.
They were not ordinary days in Rio. As the week went by and Boca fans populated the beaches, tension rose. There was police repression, raids of Fluminense bars and all kinds of chaos on beaches and streets. Thursday night was probably the worst moment, after an ambush by the organized Young Flu fans and the repression by the militarized police of Rio de Janeiro.
Yesterday, to make matters worse, a good part of La 12 arrived, which is located in the other part of the city, in the northern area. They stop at a bar in the Sao Januario neighborhood, near the fans of Vasco da Gama, the second most popular club in Rio behind Flamengo. There is fraternity between the two bars.
To a large extent, Boca’s popularity contrasts with that of Fluminense, of elitist origin, but which over the decades has increased its massiveness inside and outside of Rio, although it is still far from Flamengo and Vasco. That is something that is also mentioned as a factor in the belligerence that exists on the beaches: let’s make the rigor of the locality felt. “As a club, Fluminense remains socially restricted, catering to residents of the elite Laranjeiras area. As for its fans, it is no longer possible to define that exclusively elitist brand. “Fluminense has fans from all social classes, and they have just launched a t-shirt in honor of Cartola, a famous Brazilian samba singer who was a fan of the club,” historian Leonardo Affonso de Miranda Pereira, author, told journalist Roberto Parrottino. from Footballmania: a social history of football in Rio de Janeiro, 1905-1938.
Around 50 thousand Fluminense fans from other parts of the country will arrive in the Cidade Maravilhosa in the next few hours. Therein lies Boca’s madness: more fans will arrive in Rio from Argentina than from all of Brazil, the most populated country in the region and the seventh in the world.
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