🎭 Culture Mar 24, 2026 · Juan Villoro

Sunday at La Bombonera

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Sunday at La Bombonera
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Photograph by Hernán Piñera from Marbella, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.


Clásicos are like Christmas for football. In these high-tension matches between fierce rivals, expectation almost always outstrips results. For months, fans visualize goals with the unrealistic yearning of a child who hopes for a new PlayStation from Santa Claus in exchange for a few cookies left out for his tired reindeer.
For me, the Superclásico between Buenos Aires’s Boca Juniors and River Plate

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