Eight years ago the new talent of the Citizens played with the River Plate an Under 11 tournament in Italy and made a poker to the Bianconeri. Thursday I laug up them at the Club World Cup
Caorle, province of Venice, “Giovanni Chiggiate” stadium, June 2017: the “Venice Champions Trophy” is played, a tournament dedicated to the Under 11 formations of some of the best teams in the world. In the field, in the 7 -against 7 challenges in two times of 20 ‘that are held at that age, there are Ajax, Atletico Madrid, Benfica, Chelsea, Corinthians, Juventus, Krasnodar, Lugano, Manchester United, PSG, River Plate and Rome. To win will Colchonerosbut to shine, to the sound of dribbling and pitting, will be a boy with the number 8 shirt of the Argentine formation. Able to score 9 goals in 6 games, including 4 in one fell swoop at Juve. That boy is called Claudio Jeremias Echeverri and in the meantime, despite being just 19 years old, he has done a lot of the street: so much so that the bianconeri will find him again against Thursday evening at the Club World Cup with the Manchester City shirt.
Echeverri and the 4 goals at Juve
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We climb aboard the time car and return to that summer of 2017: it is 11 on June 23 when the 2006 class of Bianconeri (including Filippo Grosso, son of the former world champion Fabio) and Millionarios They take the field in Caorle. And this visibly smaller boy than all the others takes little to give show: in ten minutes he scores a hat -trick. First by making Jannon out with a delicious control at the edge of the area and beating the Juventus goalkeeper Gori with a precise right at the corner, then with a shot “to Del Piero” from the left, then bringing a cross for the field and concluding with an impossible diagonal. And at the beginning of the second half, here is the final pearl: soft lob to exceed Juve’s number 12. Always exulting with a smart gaze and a sly smile that, thanks to the assonance in the surname with “El Diablo” Marco Etcheverry, earned him the nickname “Diablito”. Echeverri will not win the MVP prize of the tournament (it will be the Afghan of Lugano Mirad Amiradze, who currently plays in the second team of the Swiss club), nor the title of top scorer (will go to Ivan Murcillo Fernandez of Atletico Madrid, whose traces have been lost today), but it is certainly the one who, 8 years later, has become more “footballer” of all. Just to give an example, of the 12 Juve players who took part in the “Venice Champions Trophy”, only 3 (Giorgi, Boufandar and belly) remained in the black and white orbit.
Echeverri’s goal at the Al Ain
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Claudio Echeverri, on the other hand, despite his meter and 71 in height for 62 kg, remains one of the youngest on the pitch even among the “big”, with his technical qualities leaves no way out to the opponents. Last to make the expense of the Al Ain goalkeeper, Khalid Eisa, who remained motionless to observe his punishment from the limit put under the crossbar. At the debut as a starter with the City, who paid the 25 million of the termination clause to snatch him from River. Juve is notified: from Caorle to Orlando, the “little devil” has not lost the desire to score.
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