Phoenix Vs Boca Juniors 23 July

UPDATE ON WHO WERE THE PLAYERS WHO FEATURED FOR BOCA JUNIORS VS. THE PHOENIX AND WHERE ARE THEY NOW? 

There was confusion at the time about how good the Boca line-up that played in Wellington was.

Out of interest, I recently researched the Boca Juniors players who played the Phoenix in July 2010 and was surprised to find that many were in fact major players and / or went on to have big careers.

Although they didn't bring their biggest stars of the time Riquelme or Palermo, there was plenty of talent.

- Manager Claudio Borghi took charge of the Chilean national team the following year. His successor in 2012 is the current Chilean manager who did so well at the World Cup. As a player, Borghi was Maradona's midfield partner at the 1986 World Cup.

 Boca fielded some major players against the Phoenix like:

- Christian Cellay who had just signed for 2 million $US and had won the Copa Libertadores (South American club championship) the previous year with major club Estudientes. Subsequently loaned back to Estudientes and now playing for Rangers in Chile. Argentina international.

- Marelo Canete now plays for major Brazilian club Sao Paulo. 

- Luciano Monzon was a first team regular, Argentina international and played for Real Betis in Spain, Nice and Lyon in France and currently plays for Catania in Serie A in Italy. 

- Cristian Erbes is a first team regular at Boca. 

- Matias Caruzzo was a first team regular and Argentina international. 

- Pablo Mouche now plays for major Brazilian club Palmeiras and was an Argentine international. 

- Jesus Mendez has played about 200 games in Argentina's top division and for St Gallen in Switzerland + Argentina national team. 

- Lucas Viatri was a first team regular and Argentina international. Got into trouble the year before visiting NZ for "robbing hairdressers."

- Juan Insuarralde was a first team regular + Argentina international who now plays for Spartak Moscow. 

- Sergio Araujo went on to play for Barcelona B in Spain and Tigres in Mexico. 

- Nicolas Blandi became a regular striker for Boca.

This is interesting. And the Phoenix line up?

Started: Paston, Bertos, Durante, Sigmund, Hearfield, Muscat, Brown, Lia, Ifill, Macallister, Greenacre 

Subs bench: Gould, Diego, Daniel, Musa, Vieira

Line-up from the highlights video of Sky TV's broadcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_9dBLZdT6I

Big Pete will be just the man for this. Back in the late 70s I saw Brasil under 21s or 23s play NZ (I think) at western springs. I went along to watch future world stars in action with the intent of looking at the programme years later and point out that i saw the next Pele play etc. I lost the programme and my memory has gone. Do you have that team and what/where they did after?

Toto definitely came on from memory.

Didn't Mirjan Pavlovic' come on in this game?

Yeah he did

Chris Shuker also? Before he went back to the UK.

Does any-one have the programme that they have finished with I can buy?Cheers in advance

Are you thinking of 1988 when Brazil's national youth team had a camp in NZ for a few weeks and played four friendlies vs. the All Whites who got terrific results (two wins, one draw, one loss). I think future World Cup winner and AC Milan star Leonardo, Bismarck and Sonny Anderson were in the Brazil side.

Results with NZ line-ups only (scroll down to 1988 results):

http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZRepSoccer/1980_8...

That was a strong NZ lineup.

Brazil were preparing for the South American u-20 Championship in Argentina May 1988

They won and qualified for the FIFA u-20 World Cup in Saudi Arabia in 1989.

Bismarck and Sonny Anderson featured for Brazil and were amongst the top-scorers.

Quite a few flare ups on the pitch for the Bocas match.  The Governor Gen was there too, Anand Satyanand loving his football.