Gago's brief stay at Boca, lasting only 192 days since his official presentation in October, is the shortest since Riquelme got involved in the club's politics. The dance of coaches at Xeneize has been going on for a long time and, besides Pintita, it has had 8 other different coaches in the last decade.
In 2014, after Bianchi's disastrous third cycle, Vasco Arruabarrena would take over, lasting a year and a half in the position and suffering two direct eliminations at the hands of River in international tournaments (2014 Sudamericana Semifinals and 2015 Libertadores Round of 16).
At the beginning of 2016, Guillermo Barros Schelotto would take the reins of the team, and he would be the longest-serving coach in the last 10 years and the fifth in the club's history. His cycle began in March 2016 and ended in December 2018, after the historic defeat against Millonario in that year's Libertadores final.
The successor of Mellizo was Gustavo Alfaro, who would lead Boca to a new Libertadores semifinal, where he would face River again and where he would also lose again.
"The hunter of impossible utopias" lasted just a year at the helm of the first team and his cycle would start the multiple coaching changes since Riquelme took charge of the club's management.
Boca needed to return to its winning ways, which is why they would rehire someone who had achieved several important titles at Xeneize: Miguel Ángel Russo.
The coach who won Boca's last Libertadores would win the Superliga and the 2020 Maradona Cup, and he would reach the Libertadores semifinals that same year. However, due to his poor results in the first half of the following year, he ended up being dismissed.
