Boca Juniors Reserves and Academy

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, since the squad was established in 1910.

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.Boca Juniors es el mayor formador de jugadores sobre 286 clubes de 15 ligas profesionales analizadas por CIES by Marcelo Gantman on Bigdatasports

The Academy

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."Griffa: maestro del fútbol y la vida", Clarín, 19 Jan 2015 The second was Ramón Maddoni,"El Apache: Tévez" 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.Ramón Maddoni: Fabricante de cracks on Fútbol Formativo"Ramón Maddoni, maestro en descubrir talentos futbolísticos", Cadena 3, 12 Sep 2014

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."The Boca Factory""Champions of the U-20!" on Boca Juniors website, 13 Jun 2011

Boca Juniors won their first U-20 Copa Libertadores in 2023 after defeating Ecuadorian team Independiente del Valle 2–0 in the final at Estadio La Portada.Boca gana a lo grande! on As, 16 Jul 2023

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

Current squad

FIFA World Cup champions

Player WC won Alberto Tarantini 1973 1978 Omar Larrosa 1967 1978 Marcelo Trobbiani 1973 1986 Oscar Ruggeri 1980 1986 Leandro Paredes 2010 2022 Nahuel Molina 2016 2022

Notable graduates Note: Player's career in Boca Juniors' senior squad is indicated in brackets:

Américo Tesoriere Ernesto Lazzatti Natalio Pescia Antonio Rattín Ángel Clemente Rojas Roberto Mouzo Enzo Ferrero Hugo Perotti Alberto Tarantini Osvaldo Potente Oscar Ruggeri Diego Soñora Diego Latorre Luis Medero Sebastián Battaglia Nicolás Burdisso Clemente Rodríguez Cristian Chávez Javier García Ricardo Noir Juan Forlín Josué Ayala Sony Nordé Nicolás Colazo Jonathan Fabbro Carlos Tevez Fernando Gago Éver Banega Nicolás Gaitán Facundo Roncaglia Lucas Viatri Neri Cardozo Emiliano Insúa Fabián Monzón Pablo Mouche Nicolás Colazo Nicolás Blandi Juan Sánchez Miño Emanuel Insúa Luciano Acosta Adrián Cubas Rodrigo Bentancur Agustín Almendra Leonardo Balerdi Nicolás Capaldo Marcelo Weigandt Alan Varela Exequiel Zeballos Cristian Medina Valentín Barco

Notes

Notable managers Bernardo Gandulla (1947–1978) Gandulla fue crack y maestro de promesas, La Nación, 5 Aug 2011 Ernesto Grillo (1966–?) RIMABA CON BRILLO: EL GRAN ERNESTO GRILLO on El Gráfico, 8 May 2018 Jorge Griffa (1995–2003) "Nuestro trabajo cambió la historia de Boca" by Pablo Tomino, 21 Sep 2003 Norberto MadurgaEl día que Soldano se probó en Boca, Olé, 5 Oct 2020

Other former club players that have coached the reserve teams include Rolando Schiavi, Sebastián Battaglia, Hugo Ibarra, and Mauricio Serna.Ibarra y Serna se harán cargo de la Reserva de Boca on TyC Sports, 17 Aug 2021

Facilities Boca Juniors Training Center Boca Juniors reserves' main venue is the "Boca Juniors Training Center" (popularly known as "Boca Predio"), a sports complex in the city of Ezeiza, Buenos Aires that was inaugurated in 2017 under the presidency of Daniel Angelici. The complex was built on a land conceded by the Municipality of Ezeiza for sports activities exclusively and with an expiration time of 30 years (that may be renewed for a further 10 years). The club spent AR$60 million on works.La historia del nuevo predio de Boca en Ezeiza que inauguró Macri on Diario Popular, 3 Apr 2017

The 60 hectares complex has 12 football fields, locker rooms, gymnasium, kitchen, and other facilities.Boca por dentro: 43 imágenes del "mejor predio de juveniles de América" al que se mudará el plantel profesional (image gallery) on Infobae.com

Pedro Pompilio Complex

Named after former vicepresident of the club, the complex is the second venue of Boca Juniors academies. It is located on Casa Amarilla lands in La Boca. The venue is also used by the women's football and basketball teams.

La Candela The historic complex for the Boca Juniors academy, La Candela was acquired by the club in 1963 for mn$13 million, being operative until 1991. The 4 hectares complex located in San Justo, Buenos Aires, had been acquired during the presidency of Alberto J. Armando. The first squad of the club also trained at La Candela, which entered into disuse under the presidency of Mauricio Macri, when the reserves teams moved their training sessions to Parque Presidente Sarmiento in Saavedra, Buenos Aires. The complex was finally sold in 2005 to the "Centro de Entrenamiento para Futbolistas de Alto Rendimiento" (CEFAR) for US$350,000.Boca vende La Candela at Infobae, 30 Sep 2005Boca recupera la Candela Nevertheless, Boca Juniors reacquired the complex at a cost of US$12 million in 2011.La Candela volvió a ser de Boca by Nora Adámoli on DiarioNCO

Boca Juniors used the complex until December 2016, when the club moved all the reserves' infrastructure to the new Boca Predio in Ezeiza.Se termina una etapa by Marcelo Guerrero on Clarín, 2 Dec 2016 (archived)

Honours Titles Type Competition Titles Winning years National(League) Torneo de Reserva de Primera División 21 1918, 1919, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1937, 1940, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1991–92, 1997–98, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2021, 2022, 2025 Clausura División Intermedia 2 1922, 1923Segunda División 11936 Segunda División(fourth level) 1 1929 Tercera División(fourth level) 31912, 1915, 1923 National (Cups)Trofeo de Campeones de Reserva 3 2021, 2022, 2025 Copa Bullrich 21918, 1934 InternationalFIFA Youth Cup 32002, 2010, 2019U-20 Copa Libertadores 12023Boca Juniors - Independiente del Valle Final on As by Juan Lopesino – 16 Jul 2023Under-20 Intercontinental Cup 12023 Notes

Other titles Friendly Copa Chivas (1): 2006 Weifang Cup (2): 2018, 2019 Torneo Internazionale Under-19 Bellinzona (4): 2000, 2001, 2011, 2012 U-17 Copa Evo Morales (1): 2022 Tokyo U-14 International Youth Football Tournament (4): 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017

References

External links

Boca Juniors (Reserva) on Promiedos