Boca Juniors Reserves and Academy
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Boca Juniors Reserves and Academy are the reserve and youth academy teams of Boca Juniors. Boca Juniors reserve team plays in the "Primera División de Reserva", the reserve division of Primera División. Home matches are played at the "Boca Juniors Training Center", inaugurated in 2017 and sited in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires. The Boca Juniors reserves are the team with the most Torneo de Reserva championships with 20 titles,[2] since the squad was established in 1910.[3]
Full name | Club Atlético Boca Juniors | |||
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Nickname(s) | Xeneizes (Genoese), Azul y Oro (Blue and Gold), La Mitad Más Uno (Half plus One) | |||
Founded | 1910; 114 years ago (1910) (Reserve teams) | |||
Ground | Centro de Entrenamiento Boca Juniors, Ezeiza | |||
Capacity | 1,000 | |||
Chairman | Jorge Amor Ameal | |||
Manager | Silvio Rudman[1] | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Some of the most notable players from the youth divisions include Américo Tesoriere, Pedro Calomino, Alfredo Garasini, Ernesto Lazzatti, Natalio Pescia, Mario Boyé, Antonio Rattín, Ángel Clemente Rojas (regarded by many supporters as the greatest idol in club's history), Alberto Tarantini, Roberto Mouzo, Oscar Ruggeri, Diego Latorre, Fernando Gago, Carlos Tevez, and Leandro Paredes. On the other side, Sebastián Battaglia is the most winning player in club's history with 19 titles won (17 as player and 2 as manager).
According to the International Centre for Sports Studies, Boca Juniors is the club which trained the largest number of professional players worldwide, having trained 78 footballers. The statistic took 285 clubs from 15 different leagues.[4]