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Superclasico - Joel Richards
BackPage Press Copyright (c) Joel Richards, 2013
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OCTOBER 28, 2012: RIVER
PLATE V BOCA JUNIORS
Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti
The Monumental is a blur of red and white, broken only by a pocket of blue and yellow. A few tourists sit with the nervousness and heightened expectancy of peace-keeping observers in hostile territory. Eric Cantona has seen it all. He now sees more. Taking in the flags, the flares and chants, Cantona, the embodiment of sporting enigma, the provoker of outrageous sporting controversy, affords himself a grin. It’s emotional,
he finally says. His eyes do not move from their focus on the stands.
Sitting in a VIP box, Cantona is surrounded by River supporters. They have filled their 55,000 ticket allocation well ahead of the teams’ entrance. For weeks running up to the clash with their cross-city rivals, supporters’ groups have led a campaign to coax every fan with a ticket into turning up in their River shirt, the famous red band. No away shirts are permitted. This superclasico, more than ever, they need to show just who they are and that, after an agonising year in the second division, they are back. It has worked. The colour code is red and white and the chants are underway, orchestrated by the band of bass drums high above the goal in the Omar Sivori Stand, the terrace named after the former Juventus striker whose transfer from River to the Old Lady paid for completion of the famous stadium in the 1960s.
Juan, a River fan, reveals a tattoo of the Monumental covering his back
Across the other end of the pitch are Boca, also in good voice, accompanied by a brass band and armed with flares and taunts in equal measure. It is the first time these two teams have met for points in more than a year following River Plate’s relegation in 2011. The season in the second division was an unarmed war
, according to the River Plate coach Matias Almeyda. This superclasico with Boca is revenge — in triplicate,
he says. River have been wounded by jokes about their relegation, adding new bitterness to an enduring hostility. Almeyda, too, seeks revenge for being sent off in the last superclasico that he played in, months before River went down