Boca Juniors renewed the AFA Women’s Championship title for the third time, after winning 1-0 this Friday to the UAI Urquiza in a tiebreaker final which was played before 3,500 people at the Libertadores de America stadium–Ricardo Enrique Bochini of Avellaneda.
With a header from EstefanÃa Palomar at 11 minutes, the “Gladiadoras” repeated the consecrationas had happened in September of last year against the same rivals in La Bombonera.
Florencia Quiñones’ team hit fast in the meeting After a mistake in the background, Andrea Ojeda sent a cross from the right wing and Palomar won with a header, to open the scoring and score 1-0 in favor of Xeneize.
Later, at 37 minutes, there was a worrying moment in the meeting: After a collision with Palomar, Idanis Mendoza suffered a severe blow to the face and could not continue. The UAI player He left on a stretcher and was transferred to the Fiorito Hospital.
When the first period was over, EspÃndola was close to stretching the advantage for Mouth: topped off from the door of the area and the ball hit the post.
In the second half, there were few approaches by side. One of the clearest shots from UAI was a shot by De la Serna, which Laurina Oliveros held off without any problems.
The Villa Lynch team had the initiative, but they always found the Xeneize goalkeeper. Meanwhile, Quiñones’ team was waiting for their opportunity to counterattack.
Finally, Las Gladiadoras won 1-0 and were crowned champions. This way, Boca is a three-time women’s soccer champion: they kept the title in a season in which they won 16 games (counting the final tiebreaker), drew 3 and lost just one.
Quiñones, who took over as xeneize technical director just two months ago, was “happy” with obtaining this new trophywhich was delivered from the hands of Claudio “Chiqui” Tapiahead of the AFA.
“We tried to correct the errors that we had before the UAI; today we were pretty goodWe try to play shorter. This one-on-one was very tough, we came out champions like Boca”, declared in the end heto coach, who had previously also been crowned in his stage as a player