Boca in a historic crisis 🫣With an eleventh game without a win, Boca Juniors is currently experiencing its worst streak ...

Following a brief retirement, Juan Roman Riquelme is back with Boca Juniors and he's up to his old tricks. In the 25th minute of the second leg of Boca's Copa Libertadores round of 16 tie against ...

Riquelme carried the banner for an old-style Argentine game. He was not much of an athlete, but very few have moved the ball with as much elegance and intelligence.

To that end came players like Rodolfo Arruabarrena, Juan Sorin, Gonzalo Rodriguez and, via Barcelona, the roughest of rough diamonds, the jewel in the crown, Riquelme.

Juan Roman Riquelme was an artist. A rare one. Yes, he bickered with managers, and no, he didn't make the impact with Argentina he might have, but over nearly two decades in professional ...

Slowly, Juan Roman Riquelme waded through the crowd. This was his public, his constituency. In a nostalgic echo of so many heady Sundays past, they chanted his name, jumping around with lovestruck ...

Juan Román Riquelme (Argentina) on run in Japan vs Argentina1-2, Kirin Challenge Cup2004 at Ecopa Stadium in Shizuoka, Japan on 18 Aug 2004 photo by Masahide Tomikoshi/TOMIKOSHI PHOTOGRAPHY ...

"[Riquelme] treated the ball with such kindness that it looked after him all over the pitch, with the humility of a dog kissing his feet." — Brazilian 1970 World Cup winner Tostao.

For all these reasons, and also their age (Palermo will turn 37 during the Aperatura while Riquelme will turn 32 in June), Roman is the man who must continue at Boca to dig them out of trouble.

Juan Roman Riquelme: An Ode to the Lethargic Argentine Legend on His 41st Birthday "If we have to travel from A to B, most of us take the six-lane highway & get there as quickly as possible.

Pele grows a little nostalgic when he watches Juan Roman Riquelme play for Argentina. He told a Brazilian television station, "We used to have players like Riquelme." Very few teams have a player ...