

Boca Team News
No Margin For Error As Boca Begin Copa Mission…
By: Brett |Los Xenienes are back at The Chocolate Box this Sunday afternoon in the first of our seven game mission to secure qualification into Copa Libertadores 2010.
Boca Feel Pain in the Rosario Rain
By: Brett |Rosario Central 2-1 Boca
It’s a tried and true footballing cliche – you’ve got to take your chances. You’ve got to put the ball in the back of the net more times than your opponent. If you can’t do that, then you’re probably not going to win. If ever there was a clear example of this [...]
Boh…Romi Not Going to Rosario…Plus Quiz Answer
By: Brett |Romi may only be 31 but that’s not too old to do your back in when you’re a professional footballer. Replaced after just 36 minutes against Chaca, Romi will sit out our next encounter with Rosario Central on Sunday. No official word on when he’ll be back, but one can only hope it’s soon…
Tiki-Tiki, Toca-Toca…
By: Brett |Boca 3-0 Chacarita Juniors
All three goals looked as if they were straight out of the training ground play-book. We were that clean. That crisp. That quick. That clinical.
Not only that, it almost felt to me as if Chaca were in on it. Like they had been informed of their part in proceedings beforehand. As [...]
Time To Put Up Or Shut Up…Plus, A New Segment!
By: Brett |Two season defining matches in the next four days against Chacarita Juniors and Rosario Central will determine whether Boca is still a force to reckoned with in Apertura 2009 or if this campaign will be resigned to the crap heap and attention turns to slavaging some pride with a spot in the Copa Libertadores for [...]
Kinda Happy, Kinda Not…
By: Brett |River Plate 1 – 1 Boca
If figures are to be believed, then the happiness of 72.6% of the Argentine population rested on the outcome of the 324th Superclassico yesterday afternoon at the El Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires. In the end, I guess they were all, like myself, kinda happy, but kinda not…
5 Reasons Why Boca Will Win the Superclassico
By: Brett |Earlier this week, the Boca Offside featured, what I thought at least, was an open and honest interview with irreplaceable Boca Juniors playmaker, Juan Roman Riquelme. In this interview, our number 10 gave a trenchant, thoughtful analysis of this Sunday’s Superclassico opponents, River Plate. For those of you who didn’t read the interview, here’s a [...]
Exclusive: Riquelme Talks To Boca Offside!
By: Brett |As Argentina braces itself for the biggest match of its domestic season, the Boca Offside has secured an exclusive interview with none other than Boca playmaker, and President of the Diego Maradona fan club, Juan Roman Riquelme. Enjoy.
The Apertura 2009 Winning Streak of the Devil of Death Rolls On…
By: Brett |Boca 2-1 Tigre
And another makes it three. Yes, our third win in succession means that the ‘Apertura 2009 Winning Streak of the Devil of Death’ continues to march on, growing ever larger and stronger.
What Was 8 Is Now 6…
By: Brett |Racing Club 1-2 Boca
Three points at the Presidente Peron Stadium, combined with a late Carlos Quintana goal for Lanus at the Dr. Jose Luis Meiszner Stadium in La Plata, means what was an eight point gap between us and Estudiantes at the top is now down to six.






