{"id":483100,"date":"2026-02-16T06:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483100\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T06:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:08:17","slug":"auckland-fc-could-host-boca-juniors-or-river-plate-under-mayors-buenos-aires-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483100\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland FC could host Boca Juniors or River Plate under mayor\u2019s Buenos Aires plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cI\u2019m quietly working on something with Buenos Aires,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown wants to bring more major events to Auckland. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve also got a really good soccer team here now in Auckland FC and Buenos Aires is the home of the world champions in soccer. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo there\u2019s a bit of a chance we might get one of their clubs, San Lorenzo or one of their top clubs, Boca Juniors or River Plate playing Auckland FC. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we could, if we have the big night live as a regular thing, we could have all sorts of things happening here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Auckland FC CEO Nick Becker confirmed to the Herald discussions had taken place with the mayor over a potential game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s early on in the conversation,\u201d Becker said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut the idea would be to do both here and away. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019d love to not only have one of the big Argentinian sides like a Boca Juniors or a River Plate come to New Zealand as part of a programme that we have with the country, but also is there an opportunity for Auckland FC to go there as well? Absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Auckland FC could play a match against one of Argentina’s top football clubs soon. Photo \/ Photosport <\/p>\n
Becker said the A-League and Auckland FC\u2019s connection to South America was strong, mentioning Guillermo May of Uruguay and Chilean Felipe Gallegos who currently play for the team, and praised the support of Auckland\u2019s Latino community.<\/p>\n
Becker stressed talks were still in their early stages, but did not rule out a mid-season game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would probably aim for a pre-season match, because both of our seasons are relatively well aligned. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always difficult trying to work something out in the middle of the season, but I wouldn\u2019t rule it out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m quietly working on something with Buenos Aires,\u201d Brown said. Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown wants to bring more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[70735,244839,64,22065,63,18084,244838,598,70734,23816,5393,244837,596,25663,189944,13649,18404,25796,20640,26130,1779,5788,7743,16372,85,4208,86991,3605,6624],"class_list":["post-483100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-aires","tag-argentinas","tag-au","tag-auckland","tag-australia","tag-biggest","tag-boca","tag-brown","tag-buenos","tag-clubs","tag-could","tag-fc","tag-football","tag-host","tag-juniors","tag-looks","tag-mayor","tag-mayors","tag-or","tag-partnership","tag-plan","tag-plate","tag-river","tag-some","tag-sports","tag-under","tag-wayne","tag-with","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}