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Leadership entered the room before Bermúdez touched the ball, and Boca Juniors built a large part of its late-1990s defensive personality around that authority. Nicknamed “El Patrón”, he was a dominant centre-back: strong in contact, powerful in the air, vocal in organisation and mentally suited to hostile knockout football. His Copa Libertadores success with Boca captures the essence of the profile: not elegant for elegance’s sake, but commanding, ruthless and structurally decisive.
