Boquita

This now-classic book about passion reconstructs—in an updated edition—the story that began on April 3, 1905, with five sons of Italian immigrants from the La Boca neighborhood. It traces the greatest moments of Boca Juniors over the past century and seeks to understand what it means to be a fan, or rather, to be a Boca fan. To be one more of "the majority plus one." Through stories both big and small, and the words of players, equipment managers, directors, agents, coaches, journalists, academics, and even the most hardcore fans, Boquita lucidly analyzes the origins of a tradition, the effects of money on the football ritual, the arrival of television, international competitions, the before and after that Maradona marked, the emergence of a businessman who wanted to be president, the changes in the game, the grammar of the chants, so many victories, and a few defeats: the history and the present of the most enduring dream of Argentinians.