Miguel Ángel Russo has been Boca Juniors coach in three different periods.
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Boca Juniors, the Argentine Football First Division Club, issued an official statement on the health status of his coach, Miguel Ángel Russo, who is going through a delicate moment and is under home hospitalization.
The situation is delicate. The experienced 69 -year -old technician, who since 2017 faces bladder and prostate cancer, is with a reserved prognosis and receives permanent attention at home.
The Boca Juniors Athletic Club informs that Miguel Ángel Russo is studying for home with a reserved prognosis, receiving permanent attention from his medical team and the club's medical body.
We accompany Miguel and his family at this time. pic.twitter.com/T108lrmkUv
— Boca Juniors (@BocaJrsOficial) October 7, 2025
“The Boca Juniors Athletic Club reports that Miguel Ángel Russo is studying a home hospitalization with a reserved prognosis, receiving permanent attention from his medical team and the club's medical body. We accompany Miguel and his family at this time,” said the official part released by the Xeneize institution.
Boca's confirmation came after hours of uncertainty, after the journalist Leandro “Tato” Olivera, of Tyc Sports, reported that the coach “is at home waiting to reverse a difficult and delicate situation.”
Russo has not been able to attend training or the last games of the championship due to the deterioration of his health, and his assistant Claudio Úbeda has assumed the interim driving of the squad.
“As much as he is not physically in training, he is aware of everything. We want it very much and we want it to get well,” said Úbeda after Boca's 5-0 win over Newell's last Sunday. Along the same lines, Captain Leandro Paredes dedicated victory to the technician.
Russo, champion with Millionaires in 2017 and a highly respected figure in Argentine football, has been hospitalized three times in the last month. His last appearance at the bank was on September 21, in the 2-2 draw against Central Córdoba.
Since then, different football clubs and figures have sent messages of support and wishes of prompt recovery to the strategist, who in Colombia left a pleasant memory in the fans of Millionaires, as he conquered two titles with the ambassador institution between 2017 and 2018.
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