The club's pre-season was extended due to a players' strike in Argentina and included several incidents that bordered on the unbelievable
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After almost three months of inactivity, life without Carlos Tevez begins for Boca Juniors with a must-win fixture away to Banfield. But despite losing their talisman, merely restarting the season at all will come as a relief for the club after a summer that veered from the disastrous to the downright bizarre.
The protracted crisis in the Argentine Football Association that delayed the resumption of normal service in the Primera Division by almost a month was tough on all teams.