Boca Juniors Reserves and Academy

Boca Juniors Reserves and Academy are the reserve and youth academy teams of Boca Juniors. The reserve team is coached by former club player Rolando Schiavi,[1] who debuted in February 2015.[2]

Boca Juniors
Full nameClub Atlético Boca Juniors
Nickname(s)Xeneizes (Genoese), Azul y Oro (Blue and Gold), La Mitad Más Uno (Half plus One)
Founded1910 (1910)
(Reserve teams)
GroundComplejo Pedro Pompilio, La Boca, Buenos Aires
Capacity49,000
ChairmanJorge Amor Ameal
ManagerSebastián Battaglia
WebsiteClub website
Active departments of
C.A. Boca Juniors
FootballFootball
Academy		Women's
Football
BasketballVolleyballArtistic gym.
AthleticsFutsalJudo
KarateRhythm gym.Swimming
TaekwondoWrestling

Boca Juniors is the most winning Torneo de Reserva championships with 21 titles won since the squad was established in 1910.[3] Boca Juniors reserve team plays in the "Primera División de Reserva", the reserve division of Primera División. Home matches are played at Complejo "Pedro Pompilio", sited in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

The Academy
"Complejo Pedro Pompilio", current venue of Boca Juniors reserve teams

Known as "The Boca Factory", Boca Juniors youth divisions contains teams from under-8 to under-20 level. They participate in Argentina's youth leagues organized by the Argentine Football Association. In 1996 Mauricio Macri (who had been elected president of the club one year later) stated that rather than buy players for huge money only to put too much expectation on them and watch them under-perform, they wanted to create their own stars. Therefore, Boca hired two very influential figures; one was Bernardo Griffa, a leading expert of youth in Argentina who had created a successful scouting network at Newell's Old Boys.[4] The second was Ramón Maddoni,[5] the king of 'baby football' (indoor six-a-side football for 5–12 year olds), who had a long career at Club Parque at the moment of being hired by Boca Juniors.[6][7]

Since then, Boca's academy has brought through, and also sold, more than 350 homegrown players from all age categories. From the list of the 350 players, more than 130 of the academy graduates would play around the world, including in Argentina, Spain, Italy, England and many others in places ranging from Germany and the Netherlands to China and Israel. More than 35 leagues contain players that were raised and developed by the Boca academy system. The players are taught the same formation (4–3–1–2) from early on to the first-team. This makes fitting into the first-team far easier for a young player. Boca's under-20 team were regular participants in the Under-20 Copa Libertadores and other international youth football tournaments.[8][9]

Scouting

The scouting system is comprehensive. There is a Boca Juniors scout in every small town and close to every village. Nearly all are ordinary people, such as teachers, butchers or policemen, and the head of the youth system, Jorge Griffa, regularly travel around Argentina when he took over and listened to the watching crowd, hiring the most appropriate as a scout for the area.

Players

Reserves

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK  ARG Javier Bustillos
— GK  ARG Agustín Lastra
— DF  ARG Gabriel Aranda
— DF  ARG Gastón Ávila
— DF  ARG Renzo Giampaoli
— DF  ARG Eros Mancuso
— DF  ARG Agustín Sandez
— DF  ARG Agustín Stancato
— DF  ARG Nicolás Valentini
— DF  ARG Marcelo Weigandt
— MF  ARG Alexis Alvariño
— MF  ARG Kevin Duarte
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  ARG Ezequiel Fernández
— MF  ARG Cristian Medina
— MF  ARG Aaron Molinas
— MF  ARG Matías Olguín
— MF  ARG Enzo Roldán
— MF  ARG Alan Varela
— FW  ARG Juan Pablo Cabaña
— FW  ARG Israel Escalante
— FW  ARG Pablo Gerzel
— FW  ARG Luis Vázquez
— FW  ARG Exequiel Zeballos

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF  ARG Gonzalo Goñi (at Estudiantes (BA) until 30 June 2020)
— DF  ARG Agustín Heredia (at Cerro Largo until 30 June 2020)
— DF  ARG Isaac Monti (at All Boys until 30 June 2020)
— DF  ARG Oscar Salomón (at Central Córdoba (SdE) until 30 June 2020)
— MF  ARG Julián Chicco (at Patronato until 30 June 2020)
— MF  ARG Gonzalo Lamardo (at Cerro Largo until 31 December 2020)
— MF  ARG Adrián Sánchez (at Cerro Largo until 31 December 2020)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW  ARG Ezequiel Cañete (to Unión (SF) until 30 June 2021)
— FW  ARG Tomás Fernández (at Cerro Largo until 30 June 2020)
— FW  ARG Mauro Luna Diale (to Unión (SF) until 30 June 2021)
— FW  ARG Mateo Retegui (at Estudiantes (LP) until 30 June 2020)
— FW  ARG Marcelo Torres (at Pafos until 30 June 2020)
— FW  ARG Maximiliano Zalazar (at Internacional until 31 December 2021)

Notable graduates

1920s/50s

1960s

1970s/1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Titles
  • Copa Bullrich (2): 1918, 1934
  • División Intermedia (2): 1922, 1923
  • Torneo de Reserva de Primera División (21): 1918, 1919, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1937, 1940, 1955, 1956,
    1962, 1967, 1968, 1991–92,[3] 1997–98, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2011–12
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References
  1. "Rolando Schiavi deja a Martín Palermo y vuelve a Boca para dirigir a la Reserva" Archived 2017-11-14 at the Wayback Machine, Infobae, 9 Dec 2014
  2. "El Flaco Schiavi debutó como DT de la reserva de Boca con una goleada", Cancha Llena, 14 Feb 2015
  3. Argentina - List of Champions of Reserves of First Division Archived March 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine on RSSSF.com
  4. "Griffa: maestro del fútbol y la vida", Clarín, 19 Jan 2015
  5. "El Apache: Tévez"
  6. Ramón Maddoni: Fabricante de cracks on Fútbol Formativo
  7. "Ramón Maddoni, maestro en descubrir talentos futbolísticos", Cadena 3, 12 Sep 2014
  8. "The Boca Factory"
  9. "Champions of the U-20!" on Boca Juniors website, 13 Jun 2011
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