2023-11-04 02:36:00
03/11/2023 23:36
Boca Juniors y Fluminense will cheer this Saturday, from 5 p.m. (Telefé and Fox Sports), the final of the Libertadores Cup of America in the stadium Maracana from Rio de Janeiro. The Argentine club is in search of its delayed continental trophy, the one that has been desired since 2007, while the Brazilians want to end the curse and win for the first time this tournament that was historically elusive.
The team led by Pedro Diniz comes from eliminating Inter de Porto Alegre by an overall result of 4 to 3, while the pupils of Jorge Almiron They left Palmeiras on the road after the penalty shootout at the Allianz Parque de San Pablo. That was the resource that left Xeneize one step away from glory, which drew Nacional de Montevideo, in the round of 16, and Racing, in the quarterfinals, also in the rounds from 12 steps with Sergio Chiquito Romero as the exclusive hero.
Streets. 03.11.2023-11.37pm Nicolás Coppa
Boca goes for the dream of the Libertadores at the Maracaná with the hearts of its fans and the obsession with the number 7
The day arrived: November 4, 2023, Saturday. The date marked on the calendar and in the minds of all Boca Juniors fans is finally here. Xeneize is going for the Copa Libertadores, the long-awaited Seventh, the one that has been postponed since 2007 with many hopes that fell by the wayside, and the setting seems dreamy: the Maracaná stadium in Rio de Janeiro. READ THE FULL NOTE.
Vie. 03.11.2023-22:40
Torrential rain in Rio de Janeiro
As a result of the heavy rains that are falling on Copacabana at this time, Boca fans took refuge where they could and took over the Meia Pataca restaurant to continue the party hours before the final of the Copa Libertadores. “This year we return to Japan,” sing the xeneizes.
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Torrential rain in Copacabana. Boca fans took refuge where they could and took over the Meia Pataca restaurant to continue the party.
Streets. 03.11.2023-10.11pm Nicolás Coppa
The flag, from within: 50 thousand Boca fans created a bostero tsunami in Copacabana before going for the seventh Copa Libertadores
If the Maracanazo ever existed, Rio de Janeiro once again witnesses another event that will be remembered for many years by football nostalgics: the flag-waving of the Boca fans on the beaches of Copacabana, one day before the final of the Copa Libertadores against Fluminense. READ THE FULL NOTE HERE.
Vie. 03.11.2023-21:37Juan Lagares
Details of the police operation that is preparing for the Libertadores final
After the incidents that occurred in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and after an emergency meeting called this Friday, the organization and local authorities designed a security operation that will have more than 2,000 Military Police personnel and 24 checkpoints in the stadium adjacencies. READ THE FULL NOTE HERE.
Vie. 03.11.2023-20:33
This is how Boca fans lived the day before the grand final
The countdown to the final of the Copa Libertadores entered its final stretch. All the xeneize fans (or a huge majority of them) are already in Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian city is dyed blue and yellow. A wave of Boca fans, many of them without tickets to enter the Maracaná, invaded the streets and beaches of Copacabana on Thursday, while they long for this Saturday’s final to settle a debt outstanding since 2007. Look at the video.
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A blue and yellow tide invaded Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday after the arrival of Boca Juniors fans, in search of their seventh Libertadores on Saturday against Fluminense.
Vie. 03.11.2023-19:43
Where everything began
If the question is about iconic stadiums, the reference in Rio de Janeiro today, without a doubt, is the Maracaná, where this Saturday Boca and Fluminense will play the final of the Copa Libertadores. However, the beginnings of history in Brazilian football speak of the Das Larangeiras stadium, built in 1905 in commemoration of the 12th anniversary of the founding of the Flu and where the Canarinha He won his first two Copa América (1919 and 1922). Clarín was there. Learn the story in the voice of Juan Lagares.
Vie. 03.11.2023-18:30
Boca recognizes the Maracaná playing field
Fri. 03.11.2023-18:48After Almirón and Cavani’s press conference, the xeneize players went out to hit the grass. (REUTERS/Sergio Moraes)Fri. 03.11.2023-18:18
How does Almirón imagine the Libertadores final will be played?
“We have been playing this game for a long time with the boys. We are going to face a great team that I think is not going to change its way of playing, it already has its style. And we also have our strengths. I envision a match in which we are both going to try to play: close, tactical, with a lot of competition. “We will have to be attentive to all the moments that occur in the games,” summarized the coach with respect to strictly football matters.
Vie. 03.11.2023-18:06
“Except the Copa América with Uruguay, everything would change”
The glorious career of Edinson Cavani He has 23 titles at the club level. He won the 2006-07 Uruguayan championship with Danubewhere it was formed, the Coppa Italia with the Napoli in 2012 and 21 other trophies with the PSG, all of them at the local level. However, the Uruguayan striker confessed in a press conference that he would change all those consecrations to be champion of the Libertadores Cup con Boca. All except the only one he got with the Uruguayan team, the America Cup 2011.
Vie. 03.11.2023-17:46
“After the game? I imagine myself happy”
Cavani commented on what, in his view, are Boca’s virtues that explain its presence in the Copa Libertadores final: “We are all experiencing it united, all together. If we are here today, that is why. It is because we face the difficult moments of the games with a team, group, family mentality and we have been able to get through it.”
Then, he referred to the role of the youngest Xeneize players: “They grew up in a club with a history that always demands that you win, fight for things. They know perfectly well the importance of this match for the team, for Boca and for their team.” “They have already shown that they have what it takes to play these types of games.” “How do I imagine myself after the game? I imagine myself happy. We all imagine ourselves happy”he added.
Vie. 03.11.2023-17:33
Edinson Cavani: “It’s the game of my life”
At a press conference, Matador They asked him if the final he will play on Saturday against Fluminense is the most important of the many he played in his career and he went further: “It is the game of my life because of everything it entails, where we are going to play it and because of the moment in my career. It is the most important of my career and that is how we will play it tomorrow,” said the Uruguayan. He then referred to the incidents that occurred on Thursday. “What happened is sad. It’s a moment to enjoy. We hope it doesn’t happen again and that there will be a party tomorrow,” he reflected. Almirón also expressed his repudiation of the acts of violence that occurred.
Vie. 03.11.2023-17:19
In moments Jorge Almirón and Edinson Cavani speak
The Boca coach and the Uruguayan scorer will speak at the press conference prior to the Copa Libertadores final against Fluminense. Before, both stepped on the Maracaná grass, touched it with their hands and the coach asked himself: “a lot of sand, right?”
Vie. 03.11.2023-17:19
The impressive flag of Boca Rio de Janeiro
Boca fans have a party in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Fernando de la Orden / Special Envoy.Fri. 03.11.2023-16:57
Massive xeneize flag in Rio de Janeiro
There were so many Boca fans who attended the flag-off scheduled for 4pm at post 4 in Copacabana that, at the request of the security agencies, the fans who were in the Sambodromo were detained. They thus seek not to overload the area and avoid possible incidents.
Maradona, Palermo and Riquelme, three of the idols most present on the flags of Boca fans. Photo: Fernando de la Orden / Special Envoy.Fri. 03.11.2023-16:48
Fluminense recognizes the Maracaná playing field
After the press conference of Fernando Diniz y Nino, coach and captain of the Flu, The entire squad of the Brazilian team stepped onto the grass where the final of the Copa Libertadores will be played this Saturday. The Argentinian German Cano He went out drinking mate and talked for several minutes with the coach, while Felipe Melo He squatted down and prayed, looking at the ground. Marcelomeanwhile, stayed on the substitute bench with his cell phone and other players isolated themselves listening to music on their headphones.
Fri. 03.11.2023-18: 49Felipe Melo is going for his third Libertadores: he has already won it twice with Palmeiras. (Ilvio Avila / AFP) Fri. 03.11.2023-16:34
Diniz plays mystery
The Fluminense coach, Fernando Diniz, appeared at the press conference prior to the final of the Copa Libertadores alongside Nino, central defender of the Flu, and gave no indications about the possible starting team that will stop at the Maracaná: “The strategy is to put the best team you have. We are going to create doubt in the rival about who is playing,” said the coach. When consulted about the arbitration, which will be the responsibility of Wilmar Roldan As head judge, he escaped controversy: “He is qualified. We hope he has an inspired and happy afternoon and that the game flows.”
Vie. 03.11.2023-16:10
Nino, in the run-up to the grand final
The defender and captain of Flu, who suffered a sprained knee during the last FIFA date and will arrive just enough for this Saturday’s game, was confident: “The team is very well prepared. We have players used to playing great games. We have been preparing for this game for a long time and we face it with great joy,” he commented.
Fri. 03.11.2023-16:52Diniz and Nino spoke in advance of the Copa Libertadores final. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes.Fri. 03.11.2023-16:00
At 4 p.m., the flag of the Boca fans
In the run-up to this Saturday’s final, in which Xeneize will seek its long-awaited seventh Copa Libertadores against Fluminense at the Maracaná, thousands of Boca fans take over the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, sing the songs of the fans and throb a game transcendental. Yesterday’s incidents seem to be behind us.
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Scheduled for 4:00 p.m. this Friday, the Boca fans’ flag-off begins to gather a large number of people at Post 4 on Copacabana beach, without any incidents unlike what happened 24 hours ago.
Vie. 03.11.2023-15:30
Boca, Fluminense, Conmebol, AFA and the CBF unite with the same message: “let there be peace”
This Friday, after the ambush suffered by the fans of Boca in Rio de Janeiro, at a meeting convened by Conmebol and in which all parties participated it was decided that everything remains the same: The final of the Copa Libertadores will be played with an audience at the Maracaná stadium.
“It will be with the public, at 5:00 p.m. and it is expected that there will be peace,” the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) told the press, Ednaldo Rodrigues, at the end of a meeting with Alejandro Dominguez, president of the governing body of South American football, and Claudio Chiqui Tapia, president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA). “We want to convey to each of the fans that we hope to have a Maracaná with a lot of peace and a lot of joy (…). We hope that this requested peace can reign before, during and after the game,” added Rodrigues.
The highest authorities of the finalist clubs also participated in that meeting. “We are convinced that it is going to be a party. There is going to be a champion and there is going to be someone who reached the final, and if he got there he did it on merit. We are going to play with the public, there will not be any problems and Ask people to please respect the opponent. “This is not a war,” said Jorge Amor Ameal, the boss of Xeneize. READ THE FULL NOTE.
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The presidents of Boca and Fluminense spoke about the episodes of violence and called for peace so that the Libertadores final could be a party.
Fri. 03.11.2023-14:32Juan Lagares
A crowd of Boca fans for the flag in Copacabana
After yesterday’s incidents and the message of peace that Conmebol lowered, on the beach, near Post 4 on Atlantic Avenue, the fans set up their party with pyrotechnics, flags and instruments. For now, no problems.
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Scheduled for 4:00 p.m. this Friday, the Boca fans’ flag-off begins to gather a large number of people at Post 4 on Copacabana beach, without any incidents unlike what happened 24 hours ago.
Vie. 03.11.2023-13:41
Screens, cameras, platforms: all the options to watch the Fluminense-Boca grand final in Argentina
ESPN – Star+: The sports signal sent a journalistic team of more than 35 to cover the match. The broadcast will begin at 7:00 on Saturday through the SportsCenter program and will continue with Team F until match time, which will be reported by Mariano Closs with comments from Diego Latorre on Star+. The alternative story for people with visual disabilities will be by Germán Sosa and Jorge Baravalle.Telefé – PlutoTV: The ball channel will offer the game with stories from Pablo Giralt and comments from Juan Pablo Vasky, but from noon it will have a more relaxed proposal to beat it. From the studios in Buenos Aires, Noelia Antonelli, Fernando Carlos, Nani Senra, Nicolas Haase, Patricia Muzzio and Priscila Crivo will carry out the preview of the final. In La Bombonera, Robertito Funes will lead a mobile to show the vigil of Boca fans and from Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, the media model Vicky Xipolitakis will do the same.Fox Sports: The transmission of the match will be carried out by the Hernán de Lorenzi (stories)-Miguel Osovi (comments) duo, with the assistance of Mariano Almada on the playing field. Martín Reich, Sol Rivas and the former footballer and Boca coach Sebastián Battaglia will also be part of it. Your proposal will begin at 12:00.Betsson Platform: The betting house will broadcast the Libertadores final live and will offer special odds for those who bet on Boca. All users will be able to watch the match from the Betsson APP, main sponsor of “Xeneize”. The match will be broadcast on www.betsson.bet.ar and can be viewed from any cell phone, tablet or computer. Access requirements: be registered on the platform and have a balance in the account.Fri. 03.11.2023-12:49
Confirmation from the president of the CBF: “The final is played with the public as planned”
This was stated by Ednaldo Rodrigues after participating in a meeting with authorities from Conmebol, the AFA and the clubs involved, Boca and Fluminense.
Vie. 03.11.2023-12:30
What will the operation be like for the possible celebrations of Boca fans at the Buenos Aires Obelisk?
READ THE FULL NOTE HERE
Vie. 03.11.2023-11:24
Emergency meeting with the presence of Conmebol for security after the incidents in Copacabana
Conmebol leaders met this afternoon with the highest security agencies in Rio de Janeiro to reinforce the operation with a view to the final of the Copa Libertadores that Boca and Fluminense will host at the legendary Maracaná stadium. Thursday’s incidents on Copacabana beach generated “concern” among the Xeneize leadership, since the bulk of fans will arrive in the Brazilian city this Friday. According to reports, officials from AFA, the Brazilian CBF, and the two clubs involved will participate in the meeting.
Vie. 03.11.2023-11:01
VIDEO: the moment of the arrest of a Boca fan accused of ‘racism’ and the harsh insults of the Brazilians
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The incidents between Fluminense and Boca fans in Rio de Janeiro left at least six detainees, one of them handcuffed and harassed by Brazilians who accused him of racism, in addition to insulting him strongly while being transported by the Police.
Vie. 03.11.2023-10:15
Marcos Rojo, present at Boca’s last training session despite the fact that he will not be able to play in the final
The Xeneize captain was seen in the usual ‘crazy’ warm-up in the first minutes of practice at the Vasco Da Gama grounds. He was sent off in the rematch against Palmeiras, so he is not available for Jorge Almirón.
Photo: Fernando de la Orden / Special Envoy – Clarín
The Secretary of Public Order of Rio de Janeiro confirms the flag and waits for the giant screen for Boca fans
Brenno Carnevale, public order secretary of Rio de Janeiro, said: “We are studying the possibility of the giant screen at the Sambadrome, evaluating whether the structures could support the number of people expected. I do not confirm the screen, because the number of people “The number of people is varying. For those who do not have tickets, we want people to be able to watch the game and there are many places in the city where they can do so. The buses and cars are located in the Sambódromo parking lot. The giant screen is not confirmed.” .
Vie. 03.11.2023-09:05
The Boca team leaves for the last training session before the Libertadores final
The Xeneize delegation left from the hotel in Barra de Tijuca towards the Vasco da Gama property. Almirón has everything defined for the starting team. In the afternoon, the DT will give the official press conference with a footballer.
Streets. 03.11.2023-08:30Nicolás Coppa
Violence with Boca fans in Rio: chronicle of a night full of terror, anger and confusion
The Fluminense gang attacked the Argentines in Copacabana. They did so in the face of ineffectiveness and savage repression by the police. The Conmebol paper and the versions, is the match being played? READ THE FULL NOTE FROM OUR SPECIAL ENVYFri. 03.11.2023-08:00
The great sports prize for the champion
The winner of the final at the Maracaná will qualify for the Club World Cup that will be held between December 12 and 22 in Saudi Arabia and will have as its main rival in the definition Manchester City of Pep Guardiola and Julián Álvarez, champion of the Champions League.
Vie. 03.11.2023-07:30
The referee of the grand final
The Colombian Wilmar Roldán will be the referee and his assistants will be his compatriots Alexander Guzmán and Dionisio Ruiz. The Chilean Juan Lara will be on the VAR. The coffee judge was in the definition of the 2012 edition of the highest continental competition when Xeneize, then directed by Julio Falcioni and with Juan Román Riquelme on the team, lost 2 to 0 with Corinthians. In total, Roldán led the Argentine team 13 times with seven wins, four draws and three losses.
Vie. 03.11.2023-07:00
What happens without a tie in the 90 minutes?
In the event that the match ends tied after the regulation 90 minutes, there will be an extra half hour and, if the tie persists, penalties. That was the way that Jorge Almirón’s Boca resorted to to overcome all instances of direct elimination in the competition.
Vie. 03.11.2023-06:20
How to watch the Copa Libertadores final
The final will be broadcast live on Telefé and Fox Sports. It can also be seen online on the digital platforms Pluto TV, Star+, Flow, DGO and Telecentro Play. In addition, the Betsson betting house will broadcast the duel through its APP and website and it is only a requirement to be registered on the platform and have a balance in the account.
Vie. 03.11.2023-06:16
Boca and Fluminense, the grand final of the Copa Libertadores
Boca Juniors and Fluminense are preparing for the clash next Saturday in the final of the Copa Libertadores 2023. The match is scheduled at 5 p.m. at the Maracaná stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Mouth vs. Fluminense, for the final of the Copa Libertadores 2023: day, time and stadium
The grand final of the 2023 Copa Libertadores between Boca and Fluminense will be played this Saturday, November 4 at the Maracaná Stadium starting at 5:00 p.m. (Argentina time).
Date: Saturday, November 4, 2023
Time: 17:00 (Argentina time)
TV: It will be broadcast live on Telefé and Fox Sports, so it can also be seen online on the digital platforms Pluto TV, Star+, Flow, DGO and Telecentro Play. In addition, the Betsson betting house will broadcast the duel through its APP and website and it is only a requirement to be registered on the platform and have a balance in the account.
Boca’s possible formation for the final vs. Fluminense
Although there are still no certainties or confirmations, coach Jorge Almirón would put together the starting eleven with Sergio Romero; Luis Advíncula, Nicolás Figal, Nicolás Valentini, Frank Fabra; Cristian Medina, Pol Fernández, Equi Fernández, Valentín Barco; Miguel Merentiel and Edinson Cavani.
The possible formation of Fluminense for the final vs. Mouth
Fernando Diniz would have almost defined the eleven for the decisive duel. The key change that the coach would make, with respect to the team that eliminated Internacional in the semifinal, would be to include John Kennedy in Alexander’s place as a starter. Consequently, Fluminense would come out with Fabio, Samuel Xavier, Nino, Felipe Melo, Marcelo; André, Ganso, Arias, Keno, John Kennedy and Germán Cano.
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