This picture appeared on River Plate's website after last week's championship play-off. It was accompanied by a caption making referencing how many times each club had won the championship three times in a row: "How sad. You almost won your third tri-campeonato. River: Three-time tri-campeon."Besides the praise heaped on Estudiantes de La Plata and the ridicule directed toward Boca, there's been plenty of news since last week. Knowing he couldn't stay, as most of you know by now, Ricardo La Volpe resigned from Boca Juniors immediately after last Wednesday's loss to Estudiantes de La Plata. The job was then offered to a current player, Boca's idolized Guillermo Barros Schelotto. El Mellizo turned the job down, hoping to play on and put off his coaching career.
The job was then offered to Miguel Angel Russo, who left his coaching position at Velez Sarsfield and jumped at the opportunity. He was officially introduced to the media on Friday, saying all the right things:"I'm very happy. I always told myself that my time would come, and I think it finally has. Boca is a very important club at the national and international level. Hopefully it'll go as well as it did for Coco [Alfio Basile]."And if that weren't enough, Boca players scurried to their favorite journalists to vent about La Volpe. Here's a little taste:
Pablo Ledesma: "I wouldn't say I'm angry, only that I never understood what he [La Volpe] wanted from me. That's why I lost confidence in him. All in all, I feel that the championship wasn't lost in the game against Estudiantes, it was lost beforehand.
Martin Palermo: "If Basile had carried on, it would have been difficult to lose the championship and to have been eliminated so early in the Copa Sudamericana. Estudiantes didn't win it, we lost it."
All quotes taken from sports daily Ole.
Russo replaces La Volpe at Boca [CNN]
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