Timbers to Host Boca Juniors on May 29
By: mao | May 10th, 2010
Portland Timbers will host one of the highest profile clubs in the Western Hemisphere when Argentine superpowers Boca Juniors come to PGE Park on May 29. The friendly is the second of the season for the Timbers who last hosted Costa Rican side Puntarenas on May 1. The Buenos Aires side is regularly one of the top clubs in the world and have won three World Club Cup championships in their storied history. Included in the current squad are international stars Juan Román Riquelme and Martín Palermo as well as Argentine national team pool players Sebastián Battaglia, Nicolás Gaitán and Jesus Méndez and Fabián Monzón.
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Love it! Great to see South American and Central American teams on our turf. Its time for a Monroe Doctrine for AMERICAN football.
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Nice. We had River Plate last year. I would have preferred Boca.
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Nice!! Now lets hope we can pack the stadium and get that electic atmposthere going .
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If you follow Argentine football you’d know that few if any of the players you mentioned will play in Boca’s US matches. They are either injured (Riquelme, Battaglia), preparing for the World Cup (Palermo) or sold (Gaitan). The team will consist of mostly of reserve players.
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I assumed that it would not be a full strength side coming to the US. Of course the full, regular side is only in fifteenth place in the Primera División so perhaps it is not the strongest side in the world right now anyway. We’re just thrilled to have such a big, historic club coming to Portland. Last year we had Bayern Munich’s reserve team play here and a young lad named Thomas Müller played against the Timbers. Of course he will be featuring in the Champions League final next week, so you never know who of the younger, reserve players will turn out to be a star.
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