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Club Atlético Boca Juniors is the most popular Argentine sports clubs, best known for its football team. Its home base is the neighbourhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, and it hosts its home games at the Bombonera (chocolate box) stadium at 805 Brandsen Street. more...

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Boca holds the international record of 16 international titles (ahead of Real Madrid of Spain, A.C. Milan of Italy and Independiente of Argentina), including five Copa Libertadores, three Intercontinental Cup, one Copa Master and one Copa Nicolás Leoz (played only once, and played only by four teams each one). The club has also won 22 Argentine professional championships.

Boca Juniors was positioned in a shared 12th position in the election of the FIFA Clubs of the 20th Century. It's also a fixture in the top 30 of the Club World Ranking maintained by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics and has reached the top position of the monthly ranking 6 times (mostly during coach Carlos Bianchi's tenure). As of the latest ranking (May 1, 2005 to April 30, 2006) they occupied the eighteenth position.

History

The team

On 3 April 1905, five Italian immigrants gathered in the Plaza Solís, located in the heart of the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Esteban Baglietto, Alfredo Scarpatti, Santiago Sana, and brothers Juan and Teodoro Farenga founded Boca Juniors (the use of English language in team names was commonplace, as British railroad workers introduced football into Argentina).

The original jersey colour was pink, which was quickly abandoned for thin black-and-white vertical stripes. The legend has it that in 1907 Boca played another team that used these colors, to decide who would get to keep them. Boca lost, and decided to adopt the colors of the flag of the first boat to subsequently sail into the port at La Boca. As the boat was from Sweden, blue-and-gold were adopted as the new team colours. The first version had a yellow diagonal band, which was later changed to a horizontal stripe.

Boca Juniors played in local leagues and the amateur second division until being promoted to the first division in 1913, when the division was expanded from six teams to 15. Boca were never relegated; they won six amateur championships (1919, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, and 1930). With the introduction of professionalism in Argentina, Boca won the first title in 1931.

First Match: May 6, 1905. vs. Mariano Moreno.
First international match: December 8, 1907. vs. Universal (Montevideo, Uruguay)
First professional match: May 31, 1931 vs. Chacarita Juniors.

The Crest

The shape of the crest has remained unchanged throughout Boca's history. In 1955, laurel leaves were added to celebrate the club's 50th anniversary, and the colours were changed to match those on the team's jersey.

In 1970, one star was added to the badge for each title won domestically (top part, above the initials) and internationally (bottom part). A new star is added to the corresponding section whenever Boca win a title. To the delight of fans, the crest has had to be modified several times in recent years, most recently after Boca's victory in the 2006 Clausura.