Felipe Melo dreams of managing Boca and winning the Libertadores | OneFootball

The legendary Brazilian player revealed that he will soon launch his career as a coach and that “in a year” he hopes to be ready to fulfill his desire to work at Xeneize.

If there’s a Brazilian who has always tipped his hat and bowed to Boca, it’s Felipe Melo. This time, during the Copa Libertadores draw, where he had a stellar encounter with his “friend and idol” Juan Román Riquelme, the historic footballer went even further and put himself forward as a future coach of Xeneize: “It’s a dream.”

After exchanging a few words with the man he described as “the president of the biggest club in Argentina” and capturing the moment in a photo published by the club itself, the former Juventus, Inter Milan, and 2010 World Cup player with the Brazilian National Team confessed that one of his greatest unfulfilled wishes is to “work at Boca Juniors.”

Since that dream couldn’t come true during his long and successful playing career, which ended in early 2025, Melo revealed that he aims to achieve it in another role: “And now, as a coach, maybe…”

“Next June I’ll start as a coach, I already have my staff. Today I’m not ready, but in a year I’ll be ready to win the Libertadores with Boca. It’s a dream,” he said, with his usual charisma and conviction, during the event organized by Conmebol in Asunción, where he participated in the draw alongside figures such as Óscar Ruggeri, Diego Godín, and René Higuita.

A well-known Xeneize fan, a team that—as he reaffirmed—he “always” wants to win the Cup, Felipe Melo’s next goal will be to prepare himself so that, in the short term, he can try to convince Riquelme that he deserves a chance on the blue and gold bench.

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