📚 Tears at La Bombonera/Dame Bola
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Translating South American fútbol. 📚 “Dame Bola: A Journey Through the Language of Argentinian Football” (2025) & “Tears at La Bombonera” (2021) by @hyllnd
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🇦🇷 Last night Boca Juniors hosted River Plate at La Bombonera in the superclásico and la hinchada, the fans, went old school with homemade ticker-tape, small pieces of pre-ripped paper sent around in plastic bags before KO 🥹 🎥 /luc4s.hern4n (Insta)
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🇧🇷 When Ronaldo was Ronaldinho! Atlanta 1996, Olympics football tournament: a 20-year old striker by the name of Ronaldo Luiz Nazário de Lima, nicknamed Ronaldinho (due to the presence of another Ronaldo, a slightly older defender) scoring 5 and picking up a bronze medal 🥉 ⚽️
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🇦🇷💋 OTD 2020: Diego Armando Maradona’s last appearance at La Bombonera. Carlitos Tévez scored the title-winning goal (pipping River on the last day) and, when subbed off, headed straight for Diego in what is now a hugely iconic embrace 🥰🥹
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River Plate vs Boca Juniors KO now This is how the players entered the fray
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Summer in Argentina is HOT 🥵 Luckily the local fire brigades take pity on the fans standing —or bouncing— in the direct sunshine for hours on end ☀️ San Lorenzo’s Nuevo Gasómetro was the first place I experienced the mercy of the bomberos 🧯💦
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🇦🇷 Boca vs River! El recibiemiento, the reception 😍 the superclásico!
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🇦🇷 La Bombonera for el superclásico on Sunday evening! Unbeatable.
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🇦🇷 DISRESPECTFUL. Juan Sebastian Verón’s Estudiantes had been asked to do a guard of honour for —the controversially awarded— Campeón de Liga champions Rosario Central at El Gigante de Arroyito, yet they turned their backs. The drama continues…
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🇦🇷 Diego Armando Maradona’s appearance on El Equipo de Primera (América TV) in the late 1990s is stuff of legend. The ticker-tape ‘recibimiento’, the fans going mad, the head-keepyuppies! ‘I might not be playing but I’ll always be a football player,’ Diego said.
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All of Édinson Cavani’s goals for Boca Juniors in 2024
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