Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is one of the most successful teams in Argentine football, having won 34 Primera División titles. The youth academy has produced many Argentine internationals such as Sebastián Battaglia, Nicolás Burdisso, Carlos Tevez, Éver Banega and Nicolás Gaitán. The team has won a total of 22 international titles, with 18 organised by CONMEBOL and the rest organised jointly by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations.
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Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is one of the most successful teams in Argentine football, having won 34 Primera División titles, second only to River Plate with 36. The youth academy has produced many Argentine internationals such as Sebastián Battaglia, Nicolás Burdisso, Carlos Tevez, Éver Banega and Nicolás Gaitán. In addition to men’s football, Boca has professional women’s football and basketball teams. Other activities held in the club are: bocce, boxing, chess, futsal, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, handball, martial arts, swimming, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling. Boca’s home stadium is Estadio Alberto J. Armando, which is colloquially known as La Bombonera. The team has won a total of 22 international titles, with 18 organised by CONMEBOL and the rest organised jointly by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations. In 1925 Boca made its first trip to Europe to play in Spain, Germany and France, winning 15 of the 19 games they played. They have been ranked among the IFFHS’s Club World Ranking Top 25, which they have reached the top position six times. According to the club’s official site, the original white shirt was a thin black with black stripes, with black vertical stripes, being then replaced by a light blue shirt. Legend has it that Boca de Nottingham played in 1906, although it has been questioned by some journalists and historians who state that most probably Boca never wore a pink jersey, and probably wore a blue and gold shirt.
The most recent version of this legend has been supported on, only on, solid evidence and how this version of the story is only supported by testimonies from Almagmagmag, and only supported on the fact that the club played in Nottingham de Nottingham in 1906 and 1906, and then again in 1906. The original version also states that the first jersey was pink, although some historians and journalists who state it was pink state that it was blue and black, and that the team played in the 1906 season in a white and blue shirt with black horizontal stripes, and another striped blue and yellow striped shirt in the same season. The first official match played by Boca in 1906 was a 1-1 draw against Almag magmag, which was played in Buenos Aires, with Boca winning the match 2-1. In 1913 Boca obtained the promotion to PrimeraDivisión, which the team had wanted for many years. In the same year Boca won the Tie Cup, Copa de Honor Cousenier, and Copa Escobar-Gerona. In 1919 Boca also won four international official titles, although not recognized by FIFA yet. Those include 1919 Tie Cup; Boca Cárdenier and 1920 Copa Cádenier. In 1946 Boca won the Copa Caballero and 1945 Copa Escobar Gerona, which were organized jointly by AFA and AUF together.
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