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📸🇸🇪🏟️ Superclásico. El Grande. The Big One. Back with The Atlantic Dispatch I’ve share some of my favourite images from my pilgrimage to La Boca. It’s everything you’d expect and more. Check out everything below. 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DTat1PAjaP...

📆 One year ago in yellow and black part of North Rhine-Westphalia.

🇦🇷👻 More new images going up today. From the Isle of Man yesterday, to La Boca today. It’s the big one coming later.

Fairplay to Macclesfield's captain Paul Dawson. Leads his side to one of the biggest giant killings in FA Cup history, then is pulling pints behind the bar. Can't knock it! 🍺

🤯 One year ago, Younes Ebnoutalib was in the Regionalliga Südwest with FC Gießen. Fast forward twelve months and he is scoring against Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga. Incredible rise for the young striker.

Some of the most iconic colours in world football. Giallorossi dreaming. 📸

⚪️🔴⚫️ Absolutely breathtaking place. Shame it was only being used for Dua Lipa & Oasis during our visit.

Incredible. As always, the magic of the cup delivers. 🏆✨

😔 Absolutely gutted to hear about Kevin Keegan’s cancer diagnosis. We only wish him and his family the very best + a quick recovery. Tough times.

🏟️🩵 One of the highlights of the year. Packed in at Racing Club. Watching them first go ahead, then having to comeback against River Plate with a last minute winner. Insane.

🐯 Three huge points away at 2nd placed Middlesborough last night. Some lovely work around the Boro box and Darko Gyabi was teed up superbly to grab the only goal of the game. Just two points away from the automatic promotion spot now! #hcafc

🗓️ One year ago in Napoli. Throwback back to not being able to see much as they took on Venezia in Serie A. The Estadio Diego Armando Maradona is a gigantic stadium.

💨💥 Just an ordinary day in La Boca. Everything blue and yellow. Smoke bombs, La B coffins, parasols and fireworks. Beautiful chaos.

🦁 Venezia get the 2-1 away win in their friendship game against Modena yesterday. Some lovely joint choreographies on display with both sides colours on display.

🐉🔙 Thiago Silva has remarkable made a return to Europe with FC Porto. The 41 year old comes back after 3 years with Fluminese. Plus, he already spent one year in Northern Portugal back in 2004. Some serious experience for the Dragons backline.

💵🚫When you don’t want to pay for the ticket… Throwback to spotting some people climbing to the top of their buildings to catch a peak of Huracán. Helps save some cash we guess! 😆

Vintage pendants in San Telmo. 😍

🏀🤯 We tried something different and my word we were suprised! Watching Boca Juniors basketball team but their fans are just the exact same level of passion as for football. Insane, love it.

🐯 Appreciation post for Oli McBurnie. What a free signing.

🟠⚫️🟢 Big win at the Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo for Venezia as they beat fellow promotion chasers Monza 2-0 on Saturday. It shortens the gap for automatic promotion to just 2 points. Making this a very crucial win with five teams all separated by that slim margin.

🇦🇷🐂✨ Some souvenirs from Buenos Aires. Nueva Chicago & Lanús pennants.

Friday night fumble. 1st half, wonderful attacking performance. 2nd half, far too open at the back. Two points dropped by we go again next Friday. #HaHoHe

🇨🇳🦁😂 Can’t say the boys & girls in Guangzhou haven’t got good taste keeping tabs on Venezia. Funny to see the Lagoon boys mixing it with the elite of European football in some capacity. Thanks for the little laugh tonight @fbref.com!

☀️ Some nice sunshine at the Olympiastadion this weekend. #HaHoHe

🖤🤍🇧🇷 Philipe Coutinho in Vasco de Gama’s edition of the Kappa Kombat rerelease just hits differently.

🩵🏟️🎥 Our view over the fence as Racing won on penalties, making it into the semi-finals of the Clausura playoffs. Slotting home the penalty, celebarations all around, waving off and taunting the small group of Tigre fans besides us. What a final game in Argentina!

Back in Berlin. Didn’t want to turn down some local Wedneday night football. 🙌

One last lunch in Bs As. 🇦🇷

🟡🔵 We were lucky enough to experience Boca Juniors one last time yesterday. They grabbed an early goal and saw it out to make it into the Clausura playoff semi-finals. Truly privileged to visited this place so much over the past few weeks.

🟢⚪️ Even in the 3rd tier you can find incredible atmospheres in Buenos Aires. Incredible here with Excursionistas.

🐯🔥 Joe Gelhardt grabs the winner at the end for the Tigers in a 2-1 over Stoke City. That gets Hull City back to winning ways and just one point away from the playoffs spots. #hcafc

🐂 Sadly we couldn’t make it to Mataderos for a matchday but we were lucky enough to visit Nueva Chicago’s stadium. Beautiful day to wander around this place! Many thanks to Chicago Analógico.

🐉 Really had to repost these gorgeous promo shots from before FC Porto's midweek clash with Nice. Showcasing the city beautifully. The Dragons got their Europa League campaign back on track with a 3-0 victory.

😍🏟️ I mean, just look at it. Wonderful pitch for kids to play and maybe dream of making it one day.

Also in Lanús, we passed by the hospital that Diego Maradona was born in. 🔟

My word, Lanús, what a welcome. 💥

🏟️📸 Tigre squeeze past Lanús into the Clausura play-off semi-finals.

🟠⚫️🟢 Vincitori del derby! Goals from Busio & Yeboah was enough to see Venezia beat Padova in their own back yard last weekend. Lovely to the have the stunning 3rd shirt in action too.

🔟♾️ Incredible to see so many people come out to celebrate the life of Diego Maradona on 5th anniversary of his passing. Eterno.

Schwein. 🐷

It’s the anniversary of Alan Shearer hitting the ball with great vengeance and furious anger at Ewood in 1994. Unstoppable.

🏆 Congratulations to Lanús on winning the Copa Sudamericana. We were lucky enough to soak up their atmosphere in the match before the final.

🏟️🌅 Saturday sunsets over Veléz Sársfield’s Estadio José Amalfitani. Watched Argentinos Juniors claim a 2-0 win away and make it into the Clausura playoff semi-finals.

😍 Lovely to see FC Carl Zeiss Jena's sondertrikot in action this weekend. Nabbing a 93rd minute equalizer against Hallescher FC to extended their unbeaten streak to 13 games. They're not slowing down either as it's the big one up next. The Thüringen Derby away in Erfurt. #RLNO

🎺🥁 Headed to La Bombonera today for the stadium tour and was greeted by brillant music. La Boca, even on a normal non-matchday, is always full of energy and worth visiting.

🔴🏟️ Yesterday we did the stadium tour for Argentinos Juniors. Featuring a beautiful museum full of amazing history and stories, including their Copa Libertadores trophy too. Top stuff!

🔊🔝 Sound on for this one! We’d not even entered Estadio Ciudad de Lanús and we could already hear the party inside. Some incredible pre-match energy.

🪢📸 With Kappa's recent rerun of the Kombat line, it's been great to see lower profile clubs receive this series. Seems like every team has been contractually obliged to showcase how stretchy the material is in every photoshoot, but still a lovely retro remake!

😍 Looking back through old programs around Blackburn and found this from another side we’ve talked about, Ipswich Town. The Green King sponsorship. Littlewoods Pools. The designs are such of the time. Love this. This game would end 0-0 with Ipswich winning the replay at Ewood Park 1-0.