Javier Saviola

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Javier Saviola
Javier Saviola - SL Benfica player.jpg
Personnel
Surname Javier Pedro Saviola Fernández
birthday December 11, 1981
place of birth Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
size 169 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
CA River Plate
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2001 CA River Plate 88 (46)
2001-2007 FC Barcelona 123 (49)
2004-2005 → AS Monaco (loan) 29 0(7)
2005-2006 → Sevilla FC (loan) 29 0(9)
2007-2009 real Madrid 17 0(4)
2009–2012 Benfica Lisbon 69 (24)
2012-2013 Málaga CF 27 0(8)
2013-2014 Olympiacos Piraeus 26 (12)
2014-2015 Hellas Verona 15 0(1)
2015-2016 CA River Plate 13 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001 Argentina U-20 7 (11)
2000-2007 Argentina 39 (11)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: October 20, 2015

Javier Pedro Saviola Fernández (born December 11, 1981 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine soccer player who also has Spanish citizenship. In Argentina, El Conejo (the rabbit) was initially traded as Diego Maradona's successor .

Career

In the club

Saviola played since the age of eight for River Plate , for which he made his debut on October 18, 1998 at the age of 16 in the Argentine first division and scored the equalizer to 2-2 against Gimnasia Jujuy . In 1999 he was named Argentina's Footballer of the Year . He was younger than Diego Maradona , who did this for the first time in 1979.

Javier Saviola in the 2007 FC Barcelona jersey

In the history of the Argentine league he was the second youngest top scorer in 1999 (in the Torneo de Apertura ) at 18 years and 9 days, just eight days older than Diego Maradona at the time . He won the Torneo de Apertura in 1999 and the Torneo de Clausura in 2000 with River Plate .

At the age of 19 he moved to FC Barcelona for the 2001/02 season , where he was under contract until the summer of 2007.

After the striker had scored 14 goals for the Catalans in the 2003/04 season , he was loaned to AS Monaco for a year after signing French Ludovic Giuly and Sweden's Henrik Larsson in the summer of 2004 , where he should lose to Fernando Morientes make up for it. In the 2005/06 season he played for Sevilla FC . On May 10, 2006, he won the UEFA Cup final with Sevilla FC . However, Saviola was substituted in this game after the first half. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season he was back in the FC Barcelona squad, but often did not get beyond the joker role. The Argentine scored five goals in 18 league games, but never played for the full length of the game.

In July 2007, Saviola moved to arch-rivals Real Madrid on a free transfer . There he played 17 games in two years and scored four goals.

For the 2009/10 season he moved to the Portuguese record champions SL Benfica for a transfer fee of five million euros . After 69 league games and 24 league goals, he left Benfica at the end of the transfer window in the summer of 2012 for the Spanish first division club Málaga . There Saviola signed a one-year contract. In July 2013 he moved to the Greek record champions Olympiacos Piraeus . He signed a two-year contract with the Greeks. In 2014 Saviola then moved to Hellas Verona . He returned to River Plate a year later . Saviola ended his career in the summer of 2016.

In the national team

At the U20 World Cup in Argentina in 2001 , he was world champion and top scorer of the tournament. Saviola was named South America's Footballer of the Year 1999, in 2004 he was included in the " FIFA 100 " list of the 125 best living footballers and appointed to the Argentine Olympic team at the Summer Olympics in Athens . There he won the gold medal with his team.

At the age of 18, he made his debut on August 16, 2000 in the Argentine national team in a game against Paraguay (final score 1: 1).

He took part in the 2005 Confederations Cup . Having seen the red card in the semi-final against Mexico , he had to pause in the final, which his team lost 4-1 to South American rivals Brazil . He also took part in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup with Argentina, which qualified for the World Cup in Germany.

At the 2006 World Cup he scored the 2-0 for Argentina in the game against Ivory Coast and also prepared two goals in the 6-0 win against Serbia and Montenegro. Against the Netherlands , he was spared by coach José Pekerman .

Achievements / titles

As a national player

With his clubs

Awards

Web links

Commons : Javier Saviola  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Javier Saviola llega al Málaga Club de Fútbol (Spanish) . Malaga FC website. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ Javier Saviola on Olympiacos Piraeus (Greek) . Olympiacos website. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ http://www.transfermarkt.de/copa-del-rey/torschuetzenliste/pokalwettbewerb/CDR/plus/0/galerie/0?saison_id=2006
personal data
SURNAME Saviola, Javier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saviola Fernández, Javier Pedro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina