👕 A Serie A club made a jersey in tribute to Boca Juniors | OneFootball

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Italy's Genoa has released a special kit to commemorate the roots of the Argentine club's nickname 'Xeneize', which will celebrate 120 years of history next month.

Boca Juniors maintains a strong historical connection with Italy's Genoa, and this bond has been further strengthened with the release of a special kit. The Italian institution has designed a blue shirt with a yellow stripe to pay tribute to the famous Argentine club.

"From Zeneixe to Xeneize. From the beginning, forever. This shirt is dedicated to you, brother," reads the post made by the Serie A team on social media to commemorate the team forged in Buenos Aires that has roots linked to the Genoese community.

This is a shirt in tribute to the 120 years of history of Boca Juniors, which will be celebrated on April 3rd. On that date, but in 1905, a group of young people of Genoese descent decided to found a football team in Argentina that would achieve worldwide fame.

Boca is globally known as 'Xeneize' and the nickname is due to the fact that the inhabitants of the La Boca neighborhood, who were predominantly Italian immigrants, began to call it 'zenéixe' as a synonym for Genoese.

The founders Esteban Baglietto, Alfredo Scarpatti, Santiago Sana, Teodoro Farenga and Juan Antonio Farenga, sons of Genoese, embraced the nickname and claimed it. The dialect became popular, adapted to Spanish and was coined by the club and its fans today.

In this new Genoa shirt, founded in 1893, the monochrome shield stands out, unlike the original which is red, blue and white; as well as the old-style collar and a wide yellow stripe in the center, which only appears on the front.