Argentina’s Boca Juniors Soccer Club in Talks to Issue Tokens

  • Boca held talks with top sports token issuer Socios.com
  • Socios.com sold tokens for teams including PSG, Barcelona
Argentina’s Boca Junior supporters gather outside La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires.Photographer: Eitan Abramovich/AFP via Getty Images
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Argentina’s most popular soccer club, Boca Juniors, is looking into getting on the cryptocurrency bandwagon.

Boca, best-known as the club where Diego Maradona made his name as one of the best players in history, is in talks with several crypto companies as it considers issuing tokens for its fans to open a new potential financing avenue. Top officials held meetings with four global crypto companies, according to people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named because the talks are private.