LONDON — The world is full of expatriates, who might best understand Carlos Tevez.

Over the past 11 years — almost a lifetime when it comes to professional sports — Tevez has worked outside of his native Argentina, wherever the money has taken him. He has represented clubs in Brazil, England and Italy, and his dynamic running helped propel Juventus to the Champions League final in Berlin less than three weeks ago.

But the soul of Carlitos, as he is known in Argentina, never left Buenos Aires. Tevez is still on the road and still running, albeit now in the shadows of Lionel Messi and Sergio Agüero, as the Argentine national team tries to win the Copa América in Chile.

While he is there, however, the agents who have sold him so often across the globe are working to ensure his return to the Argentine club where it all started for him, Boca Juniors.

You can take the boy out of Buenos Aires, but you cannot take Buenos Aires out of this boy. Tevez is 31, and his wife and his two daughters returned to Argentina over three years ago — and he then played truant from his club, Manchester City, and missed three months to stay with them back home.