Billups of Free Darko fame has written a heady, epic post about the miracle of Juan Roman Riquelme, as he heads back to Boca Juniors, his boyhood club.
Boca Juniors — the club I hate most in this world, even if I don’t follow River Plate like I used to. But some players transcend club loyalties, and Riquelme is one of them. The sine curve of his career is one of the great enigmas of our footballing generation, decipherable only through the haze of Ray Hudson soundbytes, the bewilderment of the press, and awestruck posts like Billups’ — he is one player about whom every football fan has an opinion, but even more significantly, it is an opinion that is liable to change every two years.
not the most iconic picture of Roman, I’m afraid, but I can’t find any good Argentina shots and I am ethically unable to post anything from his Boca days
