The Boca Juniors Courier
Squad8 Feb 2027
Leandro Paredes in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Boca Juniors
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market8 Feb 2027
Iker Zufiaurre attracts admirers
The name of Iker Zufiaurre has come up in conversations Boca Juniors were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market8 Feb 2027
Boca Juniors promote Matías Ramos from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matías Ramos has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market8 Feb 2027
Boca Juniors promote Sebastián Acosta from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sebastián Acosta has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Facundo Ojeda joins the Boca Juniors first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Facundo Ojeda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Boca Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Pellegrino is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Nicolás Orsini stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicolás Orsini and Boca Juniors agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Boca Juniors release $5.0M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
In brief
- Loan watch Joaquín Piñeyro counts the days
- Squad Alan Velasco has become a man the manager trusts
- Boardroom Boca Juniors spend it where nobody looks