ISRAEL: SOCCER / FOOTBALL - Argentine's Boca Juniors hold press conference ahead of friendly match with Maccabi Tel-Aviv.

Record ID: 398252

  • Title: ISRAEL: SOCCER / FOOTBALL - Argentine's Boca Juniors hold press conference ahead of friendly match with Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
  • Date: 17th May 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) OUTGOING MACCABI TEL-AVIV COACH TON KANNEN OF NETHERLAND, SAYING: "Not many coaches who have to work their last day at a job as a coach in a club get a game against Boca Juniors. So a lot of coaches in Europe will be jealous."
  • Embargoed: 1st June 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVACP4AGMMB96GPSHYPVSMDUAZ7P
  • Story Text: Argentine's Boca Juniors players held a news conference in Israel on Tuesday (May 16) ahead of a friendly match with Maccabi Tel-Aviv on Thursday (May 18).
    The famed Argentine team will play a charity match just days after the 21-time Argentine league champion won its fourth major title in less than a year under his leadership.
    Boca sent two teams abroad, one to play with Macabi Tel Aviv as part of the Israeli team's 100th anniversary celebration, the other to play friendly games in Honduras and El Salvador.
    The Israeli club said the revenues from the match would go towards scholarship funds for the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheba's Ben Gurion University students.
    Boca, which has 40 points from 18 games, took an unassailable six-point lead over second-placed Lanus in the Clausura championship, the second of two separate league tournaments played in the Argentine season.
    Led by Argentina's 1994 World Cup coach Alfio Basile, Boca completed a double after winning the Apertura championship played in the first half of the 2005-06 season.
    Boca has now won 22 titles in the various formats used since Argentine football turned professional in 1931 but is still 10 behind its arch-rivals River. It has won every competition the team has competed in since Basile took over last June, having also won the Copa Sudamericana, played last December.
    Mid-table Independiente was missing 17-year-old striker Sergio Aguero, suspended after receiving a fifth yellow card last week, and played second fiddle for most of the game. Boca had needed only a draw after Lanus, the surprise of the tournament but this time looking over-awed, could manage only a goalless stalemate on Saturday.
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