The current vice president of Mouth juniors, Juan roman riquelme announced that the captain of the Argentine national team, Lionel Messi will be present at his farewell party soccer which will take place next Sunday June 25 at La Bombonera.
“I live a movie that is beautiful and I hope it will never end. I am very happy because there is little left to be able to enter the most beautiful field in the world and I hope it will be a beautiful day, because this is a movie for me”; Riquelme confessed at the beginning of the press conference that he offered tonight in the Boca Juniors auditorium.
“Since November 10, 1996 when I made my debut against Unión until October 2014, when I left Boca after the match with Lanús, I lived a dream, and there are many “bosteros”, there is no doubt, but every day What happens they love me more and I was always just a simple footballer who played ball with this shirt,” he said.
After joking that he hopes “not to miss the ball” when that postponed meeting takes place, which will find him celebrating his retirement as a footballer at the age of 45 the day before (the same June 24 that Messi will turn 36), Riquelme confided that he will also be living a dream with the presence of “many say he is the best player of all time”.
“I was lucky to play with Diego Maradona and with Messi, the best. And Lionel confirmed to me a while ago that he will come. Let’s hope he has a good time on the most beautiful pitch in the world”he remarked.
“And there will also be Carlos Bianchi, who returned from France and will be with me because he is more than a coach, he is a father, and the person to blame for everyone believing that winning a Copa Libertadores seems easy.”described.
Later, and before Télam’s consultation, he was moved to point out that in his life “I was already satisfied with having enjoyed football debuting in the first Argentinos Juniors. That was my great objective, but it turns out that later a lot of things happened to me that I hadn’t even dreamed.”
“Because soccer is my life, since it was always around a ball, and that’s why when I look in the mirror I don’t understand how they love me so much,” he reflected.
“I don’t think my son Agustín will be part of the party, but with him, my mother who will surely also be excited, and the rest of the family will spend the day before, when he turns 45,” he said.
Regarding the memories he had of a memorable play on the Boca field, he reiterated that “the best goal was against Cúcuta, from Colombia, in the second leg of the Libertadores 2007 free kick.”
In that match played under a thick fog, Boca won 3-0 and qualified for the final against Gremio, from Brazil, to later be crowned champion with him as a great figure. “But the most beautiful goals that became the Bombonera were made by Martín Palermo,” he clarified.
Palermo, as well as the coach of that team, Miguel Ángel Russo, can hardly be there on Sunday the 25th, because that same day the teams they lead will play: Platense and Rosario Central, respectively. The one who will be present will be Guillermo Barros Schelotto.
It is not yet possible to confirm the total list of those who will be present or the schedule of the match, because everything will be broadcast by the company organizing the event, Torneos y Competencias, and it is not known which channel will televise it either.
The idea is that a Boca 2000 team will play that day against another from the 2006-2008 Argentine team.
The day before, when both Riquelme and Messi have their birthdays, “Lío” will be in his native Rosario, also participating in the farewell match of the ex-volante of the Argentine national team and Newell’s Old Boys, Maximiliano Rodríguez.
“In the 2015 campaign in which we lost the elections with Daniel Angelici, we said that Riquelme had to finish his career in Boca and he ended up doing it in Argentinos Juniors. That’s why I think this will not be his only farewell,” he announced as a partner in the conference. the president of Boca, Jorge Amor Ameal, was released.
The symbol of Boca for this historic game will be a shield on a blue background with the phrase “A game for life.” A life full of soccer, like Román’s.
Source: Ambito
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