Boca Juniors presented this Wednesdayupon celebrating 119 years of history, the New t-shirt that the team will use this season with nods to the Swedish origin of the institution’s colors.
“On the day of our anniversary, a tribute to our origins. The new third shirt is now available,” the entity announced in a publication through the social network. X.
The message is accompanied by a video in which several players from the Ribera club are seen, such as the Uruguayan forward Edinson Cavani, aboard a ship in which the sweden flag.
And the institution founded by a group of young Genoese owes his blue and yellow colors to an anecdote in the port of Buenos Aires, when the precursors decided opt for the colors of a ship with the Swedish flag to differentiate itself from the rest of the clubs that were flourishing in the country.
Curiously, the main sponsor of the team trained by Diego Martínez, Betssonis a company of online gambling of Swedish origin.
The design that includes the swedish banner cross was presented along with several photographic montages with the presence of some of those instigators such as Teodoro Farengaor other proper names for ‘bostera’ history such as Viktor Sulèiè, Slovenian nationalized Argentine architect responsible for the construction of the stadium Alberto J. Armando, better known as ‘The Bombonera’.
“The Boca shirt has undergone incessant modifications in its models throughout history. Their colors, however, only varied in the first two years of life. but, starting in 1907, the blue and gold was impregnated on the skin of the Xeneizes until these days,” the entity explains on its website about the history of Boca colors.
The team debuts this Wednesday night at the South American Cup on his visit to Bolivia to play against Nacional de Potosí.
(With information from EFE)
