On this day in 1905, Argentinean heavyweights Boca Juniors were founded in Buenos Aires.
Esteban Baglietto, Juan Farenga, Teodoro Farenga, Santiago Sana, and Alfredo Scarpati, Italian immigrants and avid football fans, held a meeting to establish a football club. Sana, Baglietto and Scarpati had learned football from an Irishman called Patrick McCarthy who as an appointed member of the sports municipal committee of Buenos Aires had taught immigrant children the finer techniques of the sport.
Boca’s original kit featured a white shirt with thin black stripes. There was another club that wore a similar kit.