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- Plenty of Argentines have been labelled the new Maradona over the years, but for a while it seemed like Javier Saviola might actually be the one to justify the comparison. Sadly, he did not. There are lots of things wrong with the ‘FIFA 100’.
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Javier Pedro Saviola Fernández (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjeɾ ˈpeðɾo saˈβjola feɾˈnandes]; born 11 December 1981) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Aug 24, 2018 · Plenty of Argentines have been labelled the new Maradona over the years, but for a while it seemed like Javier Saviola might actually be the one to justify the comparison. Sadly, he did not. There are lots of things wrong with the ‘FIFA 100’.
Jun 18, 2024 · It didn’t take too long for him to earn another nickname, the 'new Maradona'. In 1999-00, he scored 19 goals to help River Plate win both of the league championships and as a result, he became the youngest player to win the South American Footballer of the Year.
New Maradona. New Maradona or New Diego was a title given by the press and public to promising Argentine football players in reference (and reverence) to Diego Maradona as a benchmark. Since Maradona retired, people had been anticipating someone to lead the Argentina national team to a World Cup final, like Maradona did in 1986 and 1990.
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- Diego Latorre. It may be difficult for beard-bothering hipsters to fathom, but Gabriel Batistuta wasn’t the biggest Fiorentina signing in the summer of 1992.
- Juan Román Riquelme. Only two players can claim to be Boca Juniors’ most beloved number 10. One of them is who you’d expect, and the other is Juan Riquelme.
- Pablo Aimar. In 2001, Valencia signed the only player in the world that Maradona said he would pay to watch. £ 13 million seemed a snip for a talent that had won five titles before his 22 birthday, his time at River Plate spent wowing fans as one quarter of the ‘Cuatro Fantásticos’.
- Marcelo Gallardo. Before he was breaking the hearts of River Plate legends, Marcelo Gallardo had his own stay in the Monumental limelight. ‘The Doll’ was not a player to be toyed with – when he wasn’t making Roberto Abbondanzieri bleed in the Buenos Aires derby, Gallardo was a gifted and methodical playmaker, whose technique and temperament brought early comparisons with a similarly fiery number 10.
Jun 27, 2017 · I remember this because of a single story in The Daily Mirror: that Manchester United were about to bid big money for a young River Plate forward called Javier Saviola (or, as they were contractually obliged to put it as he was both a human being and an Argentine, ‘the new Maradona’).
Nov 29, 2020 · For a while, it was Javier Saviola, though it pained Maradona to say it, “because he plays for River Plate,” the great rival of Maradona’s beloved Boca Juniors.
