Estadio Libertadores de America

Two games in 24 hours wasn't good enough for us, we wanted 2 games in a day and 3 in 24 hours! As soon as we could after the Huracan game had finished we took a 15 minute Uber further sound to Estadio Libertadores de America, the home of AC Independiente.

Independiente are one of BA's big five clubs and nicknamed 'the King of Cups' due to the fact they have won a record breaking 7 Copa Libertadores titles (the South American equivalent of the Champioms League). Although the last one of these was in 1994!

We'd been unable to buy a ticket for this game online, as for some reason the website wouldn't accept any of our cards. We knew however that tickets would be on sale at the stadiums neighbouring tennis club ticket office. It proved to be a tough task getting to the tennis club with police and steward roadblocks everywhere we looked. Helpfully, you could only get through these by showing a ticket, and the ticket office was on the far side of all of these obstacles. Eventually, after a few trips around the block and a police officer who didn't ask to see our ticket, we made it to the ticket office! At 60,000 pesos (£41) the tickets weren't cheap but this was expected as the prices were all online. Overall we were just glad to have a ticket as at times it looked like our mission to see the big 5 was in jeopardy!Read more