It was with much excitement that I bought my tickets to see Melbourne Victory take on Boca Juniors. It's not every day that you get to see two of your favourite football teams in the world go head to head, albeit in a friendly.

Whilst I do have affection for the team from La Boca and follow their fortunes quite closely, Friday night clearly illustrated to me why Melbourne Victory will always be my number one team.

My connection to Boca Juniors harks back a number of years when I used to see highlights of their clashes with River Plate on The World Game and made the choice that I liked the team of blue and gold rather than Los Millonarios.

However it wasn't until the autumn of 2006 that my interest in Boca Juniors increased when on holiday in South America I fortuitously arranged to arrive in Buenos Aires on the day of the superclasico. Unable to get a ticket to the game that brings the Argentinean capital to a standstill I had to make do with watching the game in a café with fans from both teams. The next day much enamoured and much to the chagrin of my girlfriend we paid a visit to La Bombonera to check out its museum and learn its history.

Once I returned home I kept up to date with their results and in the subsequent year followed their fortunes closely (rather too closely if you ask my employer at the time) as they were inspired by the recently returned Juan Roman Riquelme to take out the Copa Libertadores.

As I alluded to in my introduction I was pretty excited when I found out that Melbourne Victory would be playing Boca Juniors right here in my hometown. It was a win-win situation - I thought that no matter what the result I would be a happy camper. But when Marcelo Canete's capitalised on that Victory defensive error and scored that brilliantly taken goal there was something of a hollow feeling.

Whereas I should have been savouring the moment of seeing a team I like score a pretty nice goal, the disappointment of the almost schoolboy error that lead up to it probably outweighed it. It was then I came to the realisation that I had much more of a connection to Melbourne Victory would always mean more to me than to Boca Juniors.

Even though the Victory don't and probably will never have the history of Los Xeneizes, what they do have is a history with me. In five years I have witnessed both their greatest triumphs and their darkest moments and countless frustrations in between. I just haven't had that kind of history with Boca Juniors. But more importantly I am from Melbourne. Whilst I love the city of Buenos Aires, speak its language poorly and love its food and culture, it isn't my city. Melbourne is my city and that's why Victory is my team. Don't get me wrong I still will follow the fortunes of Boca but should they meet again I won't be wearing two shirts as I did on Friday night but only one.