In an afternoon-night of emotions at the Monumental, the Diablito Claudio Echeverri had his exciting and historic moment, after scoring the momentary equalizer against Gimnasia at the Monumental, his online baptism in the First Division with the River shirt. It will remain in the memory as a great goal: the boy hooked into the area, took the ball outside the area, entered the pure dribble, left Rodrigo Saravia across and, at the top of the six-yard box, took a left-footed shot that left Nelson no chance Insfrán.
At 17 years, 5 months and 20 days, the attacker was dropped sixth youngest player to score an official goal for River. The youngest is also in the Monumental against Lobo La Plata, but on the bench. At 16 years, 5 months and 24 days, young boy Franco Mastantuono scored in a 3-0 win over Excursionistas in the Argentina Cup. Then there are Javier Saviola (16 years and 10 months), Lucas Ocampos (17 years, one month and 9 days), Daniel Villalba (17 years, 2 months and 24 days) and Fernando Cavenaghi (17 years, 5 months and 13 days ).
Echeverri, already sold to Manchester City for 25 million dollars and who will remain at River until the end of the year, has only 14 games at River.
Source: Clarin
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