2023-06-28 11:24:44
The echoes of what was the farewell of one of the best players of recent times in Argentine soccer still persist.
Eight years following his official retirement from football, Juan Román Riquelme organized a tribute match last Sunday in La Bombonera for his figure and it was a great party.
The current vice president of Boca had an followingnoon full of love and affection, in the confrontation of an all-time Xeneize team once morest the Argentine soccer team, which was attended by Lionel Messi.
“My dad made me a booster like you and I’m going to die a booster. I get up every day and I ask God to continue my relationship with you, because without you I might not live. This is a lot for me,” Riquelme said.
In his final words at the end of the match, wearing the number 10 shirt and Maradona’s name on the number, in a sort of kind return of courtesies because Diego had said goodbye wearing “Román” in 2001.
Captains Lionel Messi and Juan Román Riquelme, at the farewell to Boca’s idol at La Bombonera. (@BocaJrsOficial)
Liberman’s message to Riquelme
In the world of sports journalism, there were hundreds of praises for the figure of Riquelme and everything he gave on a field.
Although one message caused a lot of comments on social networks. The author was the driver and journalist Martín Liberman, who brought up an old friendship with Riquelme himself that was currently interrupted.
Liberman said he was “extremely fortunate” to be his friend, although ongoing criticism of his managerial role has led to their separation.
“The differences we have today do not prevent me from recognizing him as the best footballer to have stepped on Argentine soil in the last 30 years following Maradona and Messi. What he did in Boca was remarkable. Fair recognition. His work as a leader deserves criticism and he does not like it, ”Liberman started on Twitter.
And he completed: “I deeply admired him and had the enormous fortune to be his friend. Unfortunately my job is to say what I think and that has its cost. I don’t mix. Riquelme was synonymous with delight, art, enjoyment and above all… VICTORY. Crack and winner. Seriously gross.”
The differences we have today do not prevent me from recognizing him as the best footballer to have stepped on Argentine soil in the last 30 years following Maradona and Messi.
What he did in Boca was remarkable.
Fair recognition.
His work as a leader deserves criticism and he doesn’t like it. pic.twitter.com/p3C6CEN8VC— Martin Liberman (@libermanmartin) June 25, 2023
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