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Defending champions Boca Juniors were held 2-2 at home by Atlas in their Libertadores Cup quarter-final first leg on Wednesday while Adriano gave Sao Paulo a 1-0 win over Fluminense.
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| Defending champions Boca
Juniors were held 2-2 at home by Atlas in their Libertadores
Cup quarter-final first leg on Wednesday while Adriano gave Sao
Paulo a 1-0 win over Fluminense.
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| River Plate, knocked out
of the Libertadores Cup in astonishing style by nine-man San
Lorenzo, bounced back to beat Gimnasia-La Plata 4-2 in the
Argentine championship on Sunday.
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South American champions Boca Juniors have been banned from staging international matches at their Bombonera stadium after a linesman was hit by an ice cube during a game last week. |
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| South American champions Boca
Juniors have been banned from staging international matches at
their Bombonera stadium after a linesman was hit by an ice cube
during a game last week.
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Boca Juniors beat arch-rivals River Plate 1-0 on Sunday, the first time in three years they have won the meeting of Argentina's two most popular clubs. |
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| Boca Juniors beat
arch-rivals River Plate 1-0 on Sunday, the first time in three
years they have won the meeting of Argentina's two most popular
clubs.
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| They are a soccer-crazed nation's most ardent fans. Trumpets blare and drums pound out a warlike beat as shirtless supporters set off showers of blue and gold fireworks when South America's most famous team -- Boca Juniors -- takes the field. "Boca is about passion," said lifelong fan Cesar Fabiano. "You can get divorced, change your religion or change your friends, but you can never change the team... |
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| Boca Juniors have called on
their supporters to help find the spectator who threw a lump of
ice which struck a linesman during a Libertadores Cup game with
Cruzeiro, ending the match a minute early.
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| Juan Roman Riquelme scored an early goal to set titleholders Boca Juniors on the way to a 2-1 win over Brazil's Cruzeiro in a Libertadores Cup match marred by a missile-throwing incident on Wednesday. |
