Barca Madrid: River Boca

Immigrant Story Dept: My initial reaction was to scoff and think about the frequent and hate-filled meetings of Barcelona and Real Madrid and the passionate, colourful clashes of River Plate and Boca Juniors, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Then it occurred to me. It didn't need to and chris Smalling said something that startled me this week. In the buildup to Sunday's showdown between Manchester United and Manchester City, the United defender opined that matches between the two sides now constituted the "biggest" derby in club soccer. How could the Manchester derby stack up alongside those rivalries when it had neither the political undertones of Barca-Madrid nor the immigrant story of River-Boca? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.