"Boca Juniors" is the local, and very popular, soccer team. We heard that the games were pretty crazy and worth going to, but we didn't want to pay the tourist package price for tickets. We ended up meeting someone else at the hostel and decided to just go and see if we could get tickets there. We got tickets and were waiting for about an hour in line to get in. Then they just stopped letting people in. They said it was full. I think they just let too many people sneak in. There were hundreds, maybe even more than a thousand people waiting to get in and most of them had tickets. The police told us to try another entrance. We did and they also told us the same thing. This went on for about an hour as we made our way around the stadium few times. Then we saw some local kids who told us we'd have better luck at a back entrance. They were right. After waiting a bit, they let some people in, including us. We were in!! Or maybe not, there was another blockade inside. So yeah, we waited again, then FINALLY we were let inside. And I'm sorry, I have to mention it, the concrete stairway going up to the bleachers was completely flooded and not from a plumbing leak...nasty!
Once inside, the noise and energy was crazy. The meter thick concrete pillars holding up the stadium section above us were actually swaying. No joke.
And the guy we went with followed some local down into the crowd because he said he could get us closer. The guy was too pushy, so Christi and I decided to pass on it. We stayed up a little higher and watched the game from there. We could still see fine. We saw our friend later and he told us the local guy ended up pulling out a knife in the middle of the bleachers and taking his money and camera.
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