Divided loyalties
The announcement yesterday that Melbourne Victory would be taking on Boca Juniors in a one-off friendly on the 16 July provides with me a conundrum. What shirt shall I wear to the game featuring two of my favourite teams?
Whilst they will never truly compete with the affection that I hold for the Victory I do hold the team from Buenos Aires close to my heart. This affection comes about from a visit I took to the Argentinean capital four years ago. Arriving on the day of the superclasico, but unable to get a ticket I had to make do with watching the game at a cafe, a game in which Martin Palermo scored a late penalty. Seeing that I was unable to be at the stadium for the game I did the next best thing and did a stadium tour.
From then on I have followed the fortunes of Boca Juniors pretty closely, one particular highlight being their 2007 Copa Libertadores triumph. However, I have never had the opportunity to see them play live but this game in July changes all that. To say that I am pretty excited about the whole thing is somewhat of an understatement.
Maybe I’ll just take both shirts and swap at half time.
Tags: boca juniors, melbourne victory
