“It can’t be that…”: strong accusation aimed at a Boca opposition candidate

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·17 October 2025

“It can’t be that…”: strong accusation aimed at a Boca opposition candidate

Lucas Pratto, former player of Boca, made a strong accusation against a former official, who also joined the opposition list in the last elections and intends to run in the club's upcoming elections. The forward, who also played for River, recalled his time at the Ribera institution and spoke about how he went from being a passionate fan to not wanting to return to where he trained as a youth due to the poor management of the officials at that time.

In statements to Juan Pablo Varsky, Lucas Pratto recalled the “manipulations by officials, or officials who brought me proposals that were convenient for them. Or what they did to me when I went to my second stage in Norway: ‘let's renew the contract you had before - which was semi-professional - so that when you return from Norway, if you return, because they are going to buy you, when you return we will improve it’ and when I returned they didn’t improve anything. When I returned: ‘you have a contract, you have to deal with it’.”

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Marcelo London, former Xeneize official.

“I don’t remember who was president, I think it was during Pompilio's term and then Ameal, but I saw the henchmen: (Marcelo) London, who is one I have here (and he points to his head) I have his image here,” he began recounting about the official who accompanied the list headed by Andrés Ibarra and Mauricio Macri in the last Boca elections in which Juan Román Riquelme won by a wide margin.

And he continued telling the story: “My last game with Boca, when I was on the bench, Banfield became champion at Boca's stadium, it was my last game with Boca, we won 2-0. We were in the locker room and I hadn’t even taken off my clothes to shower, London sat next to me to offer me to go to a club in the B, which was going to B Metropolitana and I said there: ‘this guy can’t be so’… I won’t say the word. And from there I turned the page and told my agent, we have to leave wherever and never come back because they are not managing things well.”

Who is Marcelo London, former Boca official

Marcelo London is the president of the Resurgimiento Boquense Group and a historic Boca official, who is now returning to a prominent role in the club's politics because he recently expressed his intention to run for the presidency in the upcoming elections alongside Alejandro Fantino.

Fantino expressed his desire to join Boca's politics in a possible list headed by Marcelo London.

His journey began in the nineties, during Mauricio Macri's administration, and extended through the administrations of Pedro Pompilio, Jorge Amor Ameal (during his first presidency, which he inherited due to Pompilio's death), and especially Daniel Angelici, with whom he maintained a close relationship.

During the Macri and Angelici cycles, London was a key figure in the professional football area of Xeneize. He was in charge of travel logistics, player relations, and coordination between the locker room and management. His direct and authoritarian style made him a feared character by some players and employees, although he also earned his place in the structure.

He also participated in strategic decisions such as signings and renewals, especially during the cycles of Carlos Bianchi and Guillermo Barros Schelotto. After the end of Angelici's administration in 2019, he remained active in the internal political scene.

Recently, he has been actively opposing Juan Román Riquelme in every public appearance, regularly appearing on Neura (Fantino's channel) where he proposed Carlos Tevez as manager and tried to strengthen the project of building a new stadium for 105,000 people, which Ibarra and Macri unsuccessfully attempted to use to win the past elections.