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What is Boca Juniors?
An Argentine sports club based in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in Argentina's First Division (Primera División).
Boca Juniors is Latin America's most successful club and one of the most successful clubs in the world, having won 41 official titles at the national and international level as of May 2011. Domestically, they have twenty-three league titles; they last won the 2008 Apertura tournament. Internationally, the team has won eighteen international titles, a record shared with Italian giants A.C. Milan. Their international trophy haul includes six Copa Libertadores, four Recopa Sudamericana, three world club titles (Intercontinental Cup), two Copa Sudamericana, one Copa Oro, one Supercopa Sudamericana, and one Supercopa Masters. Their success usually has Boca ranked among the Club World Ranking Top 25 of the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS), which they have reached the top position six times (mostly during the coaching tenure of Argentine legend Carlos Bianchi). Boca was also named by the IFFHS as the top South American club of the 1st decade of the 21st century (2001–2010).
Somewhere in the United States:
Ryan: Man, Boca Juniors is the best club in the world.
Tyler: I know dude, they just kick ass!
Somewhere in England:
Ashley: Boca Juniors is playing! Come right now!
John: OMG, coming!
Somewhere in Spain:
Pedro: ¡Estos tíos del Boca Juniors sí que saben cómo jugar!
Fernando: ¡Total! ¡Son los putos amos del balompié!
I could go on, but you get the idea!