the end, there was the expected goal number 219 of Palermo in Boca. However, the latter also penned an important derby record. And not just that of having been "the longest in history," and metaphorically called it, paraphrasing the great Osvaldo Soriano, but a very real: it was the most players of different nationalities gathered in history .
Specifically, Boca field players were from six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Colombia. Something that had not occurred even in 1961 when, in the midst of importing fever triggered by the "Futbol Show" , these teams play each with most foreigners court to give no less than ten !.
In that historic match that ended 2-2 in the Monumental matched, the training-written in the style in which they appeared in newspapers at that time, were the following:
RIVER PLATE: Carrizo; Ramos Delgado Etchegaray, Lombardo, Varacka and Schneider, Domingo Pérez (Uruguay), Moacir (Brazilian), Pepillo (English), Delem (Brazil) and Roberto (Brazil).
BOCA JUNIORS: Rome Marzolini Rico, Víctor Benítez (Peru), Rattin and Orlando (Brazilian), Nardiello, Dino Sani (Brazilian), Valentim (Brazilian), Maurinho (Brazilian) and Yudice.Domingo Pérez, Delem, Moacir, Pepillo and Roberto: front of the River '61.
In short, that evening there were players from five different countries: Argentina had 12, Brazil 7, Uruguay 1, Peru 1 and Spain 1.Maurinho, Dino Sani and Valentin. Only the latter triumphed in Boca.
This time, however, with half of aliens in that game, 1961 nationalities were represented as was the six, as well as the Argentine played for Boca a Chilean (Medeiros), a Colombian (Bonilla) and a Brazil (Luiz Alberto), while on an Uruguayan River did (Juan Manuel Diaz) and Paraguay (Rodrigo Rojas).
was also curious that just at a Boca derby play for the first time in its history two central defenders not only foreigners but also of different nationalities such as these and Luiz Alberto Bonilla. In 1934, the Bank was club champion with another pair of foreign full power (Moses and Bibi), but both were from Brazil.
To make matters worse, two goals from Gary Medel also represented something entirely new, as a Chilean had never managed to score twice over in a Boca-River or convert for xeneizes against the band . A fact not only picturesque, but also demonstrative of a football that increasingly needs to rely more figures from neighboring countries to compensate the lack of their own. And in any Medel is Gardel.
