At just 17 years old El Diablito breaks it in the Millionaire reserve and in the Sub 17 he trained with the world champions and they follow him from Spain.
Since he came to River barely 10 years old from Chaco, for which the 2006 category was synonymous Claudio Echeverri. El Diablito, so named because of the similarity of his surname with that of Marco Antonio Etcheverry, that historical Bolivian 10, dazzled children and soon began to integrate the different youth categories: ninth, eighth and seventh, always with a talent much superior to that of their rivals and even their own teammates.
But the click came in July 2017, when his family played the Champions Trophy and, at just 11 years old, he dispersed half of the Juventus team in a game where he scored four of the nine goals he scored in the eight games he played.
Born in Resistencia, Diablito started playing in the Club Deportivo Lujan, from the Río Negro district. At the end of 2016, having distinguished himself in the Chaco League, he tried his hand at the Millionaire, and in early 2017 he joined the children’s team under the guidance of coach Gustavo Fermani.
After his explosion in the game played in Italy, the youth continued to do their thing in every River game, which has since received polls for the 16-year-old teenager, as Rodolfo D’Onofrio, former president of the institution, admitted some time ago. . In addition, He has been cited for some time in the Argentina Under-17 National Team, led by none other than Pablo Aimar.
On March 15, 2022, his name made the news again, because of the duel between that category of the Albiceleste and the United States. El Diablito went into the closing stages and at 69′ he stole in the middle of the field, looked from left to center and assisted his teammate who was unable to specify.
A few weeks later would come the first obstacle of his very short career: a fracture in a vertebra He left him off the field for several months, but he not only recovered, but in October of this year he not only made his debut as a reserve, but also He scored a goal in his debut against Patronatoat the same time he dedicated champion with the Seventh Division.
Although everything is still premature, 2023 finds him in Reserve and begins with the news that the River World was expecting: the “armour” from the leadership side.
A little devil in Argentina
On March 21, Echeverri was living “the childhood dream” while training for the Senior Team. Lionel Scaloni decided to add him to the group, give him a training shirt and let him train with the world champions. The 17-year-old youth shines in the team led by Pablo Aimar, who probably signed him up for DT. In his networks, he published a photo with Leo Messi and the legend: “dream fulfilled”.
And for those who didn’t know him yet, he had an outstanding performance in the South American Sub 17, with three beautiful goals and three assists in the first phase.
THE DEVIL’S CONTRACT: DURATION, CLAUSE AND MARKET SPACE
At the beginning of the year, Echeverri signed for three years, until the end of 2025. And the clause that appears in that agreement belonged to whoever had, say, Enzo Fernández: $20 million, that goes to $25 million in the last ten days of any transfer market.
However, River leadership understands that Diablito has no cap and they plan to offer the link with a sidereal clause: $50 million, unprecedented for Argentine football.
Of course, this project goes hand in hand with a rumor that began to circulate in various media in Spain: none other than Real Madrid, as part of its usual scouting in South America, took note of the “new Messi” and will put him on the closely follow its evolution.
Source: Goal