DCU Close to Deal With Boca Juniors

Wow. Can we get a Boca v. DCU friendly? Palermo on loan? Riquelme as a DP?

This is a truly great deal for DC United. Boca Juniors has probably the best network of scouts in South America...oh, yeah, did I forget to mention the developmental system??

Apart from press releases containing nice pleasantries and cliches, is anything actually done under these agreements? We're about half way through our one-year "partnership" with Mineiro. Does anyone know what's been accomplished so far?

BOCA ... mi buen amigo!

Soy United! NO soy bostero!! Boo!

Hooboy, another DC-Boca friendly... I guess it can't be worse than the one a few years ago titled, "The Most Boring DC United Match in Team History"

i'm totally down with this. i hope it happens. it would make the Palermo to DC rumors more realistic! haha

Dave... didn't they get a few players on trial from Miniero earlier this season? Didn't exactly pan out, IIRC, but still, those are semi-tangible results of the partnership.

If they're looking for marketing savvy and south 'merican credibility, Boca is definitely where its at.

If they're in it for player development DCU should get at Argentinos Juniors... a few semi-talented kids (ahem... DIEGO... ahem...) have walked out those doors.

boca!

Good stuff.

woo hoo!!! That is awesome news!! How smart are these United guys!! Way to go boys!!

I think the terms of the agreement are that we weaken other teams by taking away their best players and prospects (Gomez, Filomeno, Erpen, Veron?) and they in turn send us some nice steaks!

Just another reason to wear my Boca shirt...

Another thing that came from the Mineiro partnership was that they sent up some coaches to put on a clinic for local coaches back in August. Presumably they did some work with DC's youth teams and their coaches as well.

I know a lot of people drool for Palermo, but unless he is wearing a Boca Jr. shirt he will not score for DC. He was shocking for Villareal, Alaves and let's not bring back memories of his short stint with the Argentine national team.

These partnerships usually don't mean much but one player I would like to see in DC is Hugo Ibarra.

Seriously, what's in this for boca?

What's in it for Boca? Better access to a market with 300 million people, including millions of youth soccer players and hundreds of thousands of Latinos living in the DC area. That's all.

I may be getting a bit ahead of myself, but I'm waiting for a DCU-Boca Copa Nissan Sudamericana matchup. At RFK. :-)

I would love to see DC United parter with Manchester United. So they can come here for preseason matches. Wow that would be dream come true!