In the midst of a much slower and more tortuous search for a new coach, Boca will make its debut in the Copa Libertadores this Thursday. Starting at 9:00 p.m. and broadcast by Telefé and Fox Sports, they will face Monagas from Venezuela at the Monumental stadium in the city of Maturín, located 504 kilometers west of Caracas. The match is part of group F of the Cup that from 11:00 p.m. will be completed by Deportivo Pereira from Colombia and Colo Colo from Chile.
Boca would have preferred to arrive much better stepped on this debut. But he could not. The dismissal of Hugo Ibarra from the technical direction led to an internship for Mariano Herrón that nobody wanted to reach this point. But Gerardo Martino’s rejection of the Boquense proposal altered the plans and forced the Football Council, led by Vice President Juan Román Riquelme, to go behind events and improvise on the fly.
Herrón, invigorated by the victory and the rebound that the team showed on Saturday against Barracas Central, will lead in Venezuela and will also do so on Sunday against Colón at La Bombonera. But He has already been made aware that, even in the best of cases, he will not be ratified in office and will direct the reserve again when Boca hires the new coach: Fernando Redondo and Jorge Almirón are the last names in a long list that were mentioned.
Be that as it may, hehe Copa Libertadores is a feverish obsession in the so-called “Mundo Boca”. Every year more since the last great consecration dates back to 2007. The successive departures of Miguel Russo, Sebastián Battaglia and Ibarra himself are a demonstration of how little local titles are valued in Boca and that the only thing really valuable for the fans and the leaders is the Cup. With that exclusive goal, it will begin a new tour.
Boca should not be surprised by Monagas, a team that is presumed to be the weakest in the group. As for the formation, Herrón decided to repeat the same eleven that thrashed Barracas. Nicholas Figal will continue as a right back, the central defense will once again be made up of Facundo Roncaglia and the Paraguayan Bruno Valdez and continue Juan Ramirez in the middle. The key in any case will pass because Guillermo “Pol” Fernandez, Dario Benedetto and the Colombian sebastian villa maintain the high level of last weekend, and the youth luca langoni keep scoring goals.
Monagas, led by Jhonny Herrera, lost 3-0 last Friday with Carabobo for the eighth date of the Venezuelan First Division League (Futve) and does not have scary hierarchy players. The Panamanians Orlando Mosquera, Harold Cummings, Abdiel Arroyo and Iván Anderson, and the Paraguayan Aldo Quiñonez are its most outstanding players. But the games must be played until the last. Boca does not arrive so well and then any result is possible on the green Venezuelan grass.
