Boquita

This already classic book about passion reconstructs -in an updated edition- the story that began, on April 3, 1905, five children of Italians from the neighborhood of La Boca. For that, he goes through the best moments of Boca Juniors in this long century and tries to understand what it means to be a fan, or better: to be a Boca fan. To be one more than "half plus one". From small and big stories and the words of soccer players, props, leaders, intermediaries, technicians, journalists, academics and barrabravas, Boquita lucidly analyzes the origins of a tradition, the effects produced by the irruption of silver in the ritual soccer fan, the arrival of television, international competitions, the before and after that marked Maradona, the irruption of a businessman who wanted to be president, the changes in the game, the grammar of the songs, so many victories, some defeat: history and the present of the most resistant illusion of the Argentines.