No one believed, but Boka won it. The way it started, 2022 actually turned out to be the best for Boca Juniors. After the Professional League Cup in May, they also lifted the more valuable trophy of the national champion of Argentina. Mainly thanks to the mental structure, the young, renovated team and the coach who was now welcomed just a few months ago and turned out to be a great hero. Many fans cried after Sebastian Battaglia left, but even more of them cried out of happiness because of the way Hugo Ibarra guided them to the throne.Back to back titles for Boca Juniors. 🏆 pic.twitter.com/UyHA273TAY— CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) October 23, 2022 Underrated, maligned, and faced with a host of personnel problems since succeeding Battaglia this summer, the former right-back has built a team capable of breaking through a gruelling, demanding, exhausting competition and has turned out to be a great bet for vice president Juan Roman Riquelme. When Battaglia left this summer, and Riquelme promoted Ibarra to head of the coaching staff, the audience at La Bombonera was furious. Now the fans are walking in the ‘seventh heaven’ and are celebrating a man who is a fresh coach, without experience of working in senior football, but who made great results with a young team.Jonathan Galvan has missed the penalty in the 90th minute. If the scored, Racing Club would be champion.Boca Juniors won the title!pic.twitter.com/CKjEbdmm9a— Ronald Morgan (@ronaldmorgan_) October 23, 2022 From October 23, 2022, he will have the status of an idol in the eyes of Boka fans, because he brought the club its 35th league title. In the ultra-interesting end of the championship, where the decision fell in the last round, Ibarra’s team drew with Independiente (2:2) and narrowly stayed above Racing, who lost in another derby in a bizarre way against River (1:2) and remained behind the leaders, even though he had the title on the plate.
If Racing had won, he would have been the champion of Argentina. And they could, because they had the best possible chance to be crowned, a penalty in the 90th minute, worthy of the title. And he didn’t use it. Boca can also celebrate the keeper of the heated rival – Frank Armani. The goalkeeper of River Plate, grew into perhaps the central figure of the last round because in the 90th minute he saved Jonathan Galvan’s penalty and thus prevented Racing from climbing the throne. Boca won two trophies this year, and it has a chance for a third because it reached the semi-finals of the Argentina Cup. Racing is grieving, and River ended the painful season with a triumph at Marcelo Gallardo’s farewell to the Monumental Millionaire.