The Argentine Consulate in the city of Rio announced that they are preparing to receive a crowd of Xeneize fans ahead of the match with Fluminense.
Boca returned to the Copa Libertadores final after five years and the general feeling is that the chance to win the long-awaited Séptima after a 16-year wait is more within reach than ever. For Xeneize it will be their first continental definition in one match and no fan will want to miss it. For this reason, in Rio de Janeiro they are preparing for a real blue and gold flood ahead of next Saturday, November 4, against Fluminense in the Maracaná.
The fans of the Ribera club sold out in just a handful of hours the 20,000 tickets that CONMEBOL had allocated to each of the two finalists, and many others were able to buy some of the almost 39,000 “neutral” tickets that had been put on sale. sale. However, there will be many people who will travel to Brazil without tickets just to accompany the team: “Between 100 and 150,000 Boca fans are expected,” he said. Ana Emilia Sarrabayrouse, the Argentine consulate in the city of Rio. In other words: this Saturday, two Maracaná could practically only be filled with the xeneize crowd.
The journey of Boca fans to Rio de Janeiro, in numbers
In the days before the final, journalist Diego Monroig told ESPN that he had released some of the club’s figures on the impressive blue and gold caravan:
- 105 buses depart from La Bombonera and several towns in the country’s interior
- Nearly 9 thousand people will travel by plane
- It is estimated that approximately 900 passenger vehicles will enter by land
- More than 51 thousand people will travel from the Home Affairs offices
Source: Goal