In an afternoon-night of emotions at the Monumental, the Diablito
Claudio Echeverri
had his emotional and historic moment, after scoring the temporary tie against Gimnasia at the Monumental,
his baptism on the network in the First Division with the River shirt
.
It will remain in the memory as a great goal: the youth hooked in the area, took the ball outside the area, went in with a pure dribble, left Rodrigo Saravia in the way and, at the vertex of the small area, took a left foot shot that left no chances to Nelson Insfrán.
El Diablito touches his shield, in a gesture towards the fan. Photo: AFP
At 17 years, 5 months and 20 days, the forward was the
sixth youngest player to score an official goal for River
.
The youngest is also in the Monumental against Lobo La Plata, but on the substitute bench.
At 16 years, 5 months and 24 days, the kid Franco Mastantuono scored in the 3-0 victory over Excursionistas in the Argentine 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, who was 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.