The list, backed by former Argentine star Juan Roman Riquelme, won the Boca Juniors elections, in the face of two other lists supported by former stars Diego Maradona and Gabriel Batistuta.

The club's 84,000 members were invited to vote at the legendary Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires on Sunday to elect the club's board of directors.

The elections resulted in Riquelme's list headed by Jorge Amiel, with 52.8 percent of the votes of 38,000 members who participated in the voting process, and Riquelme receiving the position of second vice president.

The Maradona-backed Christian Grialdo list came second with 30.6 percent, ahead of the list led by Jose Peraldi and backed by Batistuta 16.1 percent.

The support of Riquelme, Maradona's famous opponent, was a decisive factor in Amiel's victory as the new president of Boca Juniors against the list supported by Maradona and Mauricio Macri, the club's former president (1995-2007), and the current president whose term ends later this month.

Riquelme, who retired from the game in 2015, along with the party Maradona opposes in the elections for one of the game’s major poles in South America, reminded him of the troubled relationship between him and Argentina’s “golden boy” and one of the most prominent talents of football throughout history.

Maradona resorted to reminding the Boca fans of bleak stages in the history of their club, ensuring that he sought to prevent Riquelme's victory, saying sharply, "We do not want (Daniel) Passarella in Boca", and that Riquelme's victory will be like that.

Pasarella is a former star of River Plate, who removed Maradona from the Argentine team during his training, and also supervised the technical management of Boca between 2009 and 2013 in a disastrous experience that ended the team's decline to the second degree.