Boca Jr. vs. River Plate

The sport that most of you reading call soccer, and the rest of the world calls football, is the most popular sport on planet Earth. And when the two Buenos Aires teams Boca Jr. and River Plate play one another, it is one of the top five rivalries within the most popular sport on this planet. I am guessing that this very well know fact is unknown to most of the readers in the GTM blog community. This is NOT a criticism of you the reader (I know, close-friend-of-mine-living-on-the-upper-East-Side-of-Manhattan, you are thinking, "see, proof, you are a snob Morgan" ). It is simply an observation (I had never heard of River Plate before I came to Argentina).

Alex and I, along with about twelve of our new friends from Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, France, Argentina, the USA and elsewhere paid a fair sum to see this game of a life time. It was manic, the whole seven hour experience.I have to say it was one of the most incredible live events I have been to, in a sold out stadium of 65,645, an arena built for the 1978 World Cup that Argentina won. I'm not sure I have the energy to get into it all at three a.m. after not sleeping much over the last four days but we are making a short film of the experience with the help of our new friends. I will say this, if one-one millionth of the people on Earth cared one-one hundredth a percent about issues like starvation, A.I.D.S., homelessness, etc. as these fans care about their teams winning, we would not have a trouble in the world. These fan-atics are serious.

A few photos of the sold out match (the smoke is from smoke flares, not fire- though there were fires). Red and White are the River colors, yellow and blue are the Boca colors: