Pablo Cavallero

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Pablo Cavallero
Personal information
Full name Pablo Oscar Cavallero [1]
Date of birth (1974-04-13) 13 April 1974 (age 49) [1]
Place of birth Lomas de Zamora, Argentina [1]
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Vélez Sarsfield
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–1998 Vélez Sarsfield 15 (0)
1998–1999 → Unión Santa Fe (loan) 34 (0)
1999–2000 Espanyol 26 (0)
2000–2004 Celta 121 (0)
2005–2008 Levante 43 (0)
2008–2009 Peñarol 15 (0)
Total254(0)
International career
1996 Argentina Olympic 4 (0)
1996–2004 Argentina 26 (0)
Medal record
Representing Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Men's Football
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1996 Atlanta Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pablo Oscar Cavallero (born 13 April 1974) is an Argentine former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Nine years of his professional career were spent in Spain, mainly with Celta. He appeared in 152 La Liga matches over eight seasons.

An Argentine international for eight years, Cavallero played with his country in two World Cups and the 2004 Copa América.

Club career

Cavallero was born in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province. During his professional career he played for Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield, Unión de Santa Fe, RCD Espanyol, RC Celta de Vigo and Levante UD (the last three in Spain's La Liga). With the last club he also competed in the Segunda División, appearing in 38 games out of a possible 42 in the 2005–06 season as it returned to the top flight.

In his four-year spell with Celta, Cavallero won the Ricardo Zamora Trophy in 2002–03, as the Galicians eventually reached the UEFA Champions League. He allowed 27 goals in 34 matches, a goals-per-match average of 0.79. [2] [3]

After about one year out of professional football, Cavallero moved to Uruguay with Primera División side Peñarol, retiring in 2009 at the age of 35. [4]

International career

Cavallero won 26 caps for Argentina in an eight-year span, and was a participant at the 1996 Summer Olympics, helping the national team win silver, [5] and the 1998 and the 2002 FIFA World Cups (starting in the latter ahead of Roberto Bonano and Germán Burgos). [6]

Honours

Vélez

Espanyol

Celta

Argentina

Individual

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Pablo Óscar Cavallero". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  2. ↑ "Pablo Cavallero" (in Spanish). Yo Jugué en el Celta. 17 April 2008. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 Currás, Víctor (15 April 2021). "Los mejores porteros de la historia del Celta: estos son sus Trofeos Zamora" [The best goalkeepers in Celta's history: these are their Zamora Trophy]. El Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  4. ↑ "Argentino Pablo Cavallero se despidió en mala forma del Peñarol" [Argentine Pablo Cavallero had negative goodbye at Peñarol] (in Spanish). Fútbol Red. 1 June 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  5. 1 2 "A 25 años de Argentina-Nigeria en Atlanta 1996" [25th anniversary of Argentina-Nigeria in Atlanta 1996] (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  6. ↑ "El meta Pablo Cavallero desplaza a Burgos y Bonano en Argentina" [Goalie Pablo Cavallero surpasses Burgos and Bonano in Argentina]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). 28 May 2002. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
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