Eduardo Salvio
Eduardo Salvio in the jersey of Argentina ( 2012)
Eduardo Antonio " Toto " Salvio ( born July 13, 1990 in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine football player at the position of a striker and winger, which can be used due to its offensive strength on all the other offensive positions.
Currently he is in the squad of the Portuguese first division championship record and Benfica. In 2009 Salvio made his debut for the senior national team of Argentina.
- 2.1 From U-15, U - 17 and U -20 ...
- 2.2 ... to the senior national team of Argentina
Club career
The time when Lanus
Once born in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires Salvio was already active for several years in the junior Lanus, he managed by the local youth team of the Department for Professional originating from the city of Lanús clubs. He finally gave in 2008 his professional debut in the Torneo Apertura, when he was brought on 24 August 2008 in the 1-2 away defeat against Boca Juniors in the 70 minutes for Agustín Pelletieri. After another Substitutes ( a mission over an entire half) Salvio has been used in only his third league use from the start and played it through to the 86 minutes before he was replaced by the more experienced Adrián Peralta. A sensation he finally saw in his fourth league use, a 4-2 win over Argentinos Juniors. He scored in the eighth minute game to hit the 1-0 lead his team, then got because of pulling his shirt yellow card and scored just twelve minutes on the Hits 3-1 lead his team; the other two matches of Lanus scored the Argentine striker and former international José sand.
This was followed up to the end of the season in mid-December 2008, another championship inserts and gates, eg at the Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 of 2009 in Venezuela (last place in the final group for the team). After the Torneo Clausura in 2009 as key players some international clubs gave manifest their interest in the young and agile offensive player; besides English clubs like Manchester United, Italian representatives such as AC Milan, AS Roma, Napoli or Juventus, these were also clubs from Spain (eg Real Madrid) or Germany (eg Bayern Munich).
The demand for Salvio took especially after the completion of the Torneo Clausura 2009, at the third place in early July increased to. Although already at that time was with Atlético Madrid another Spanish club on Salvio interested, but could not provide the information requested by CA Lanús ten million pounds, which is why the club feared a disposal of the player to Manchester United first. This would in turn have to do in case of a commitment by the Argentinian after the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for the equivalent of £ 80 million not worry to get the necessary money. But besides the lack of money worries remained from this time also a change of the many sought-after Eduardo Salvio, who graduated yet another season at Lanus and with the team in the Torneo Apertura finally launched in 2009.
After he was employed in the spring of 2009 in the Copa Libertadores in 2009, followed in August 2009 Salvios first appearance in the Copa Sudamericana 2009, where he already was able to demonstrate his offensive quality when Erstrundenhinspiel against the CA River Plate in a 2-1 success of his team both goals scored. Then the team but did not go beyond the first knockout round of the competition, in which they defeated with a total score of 1:5 against the strong playing Ecuadorian club Liga Deportiva Universitaria. Salvio was used as a regular force in all four Copa Sudamericana - games; the two goals against River Plate should remain the single for him in this tournament.
After a rather moderate Apertura 2009, in which the team ranked at the end of the season in the sometimes very dense design table in ninth place, gave again a few internationally successful clubs interest in Salvio known. In the European winter transfer time finally had the Spanish club Atlético Madrid in January 2010, the success ( against Fiorentina ) and got the by the media often called the "Argentine prodigy " designated offensive talent for a rumored transfer fee of ten million euros in the team.
First uses for Atlético Madrid
His competitive debut for the Spanish capital club were Salvio on 18 February 2010 at the Europa League sixteenth Final first leg against Galatasaray (1:1 ) when he came on in the 86th minute for José Antonio Reyes.
Once in the return game, he came to a brief appearance a week later, he was also in the highest soccer league in Spain his debut. He replaced 28 February 2010 in a 4-1 home win over FC Valencia minute from the 84th to the Portuguese international Simão. This was followed by more appearances in the league and in the Europa League (among other things against Sporting Lisbon, FC Valencia and Liverpool ) before Salvio first came on 25 April 2010 for the Madrid to scoring and it 's 3-1 success scored two goals on the CD Tenerife, which he was instrumental in the 3-1 victory of his team. After a series of short sessions, this was also the first game for Atlético Madrid in which it was used over the entire game. While the big success largely stayed away in the League managed the team in the UEFA Europa League to the final, where they had to compete against Fulham 2009/10.
In the game, which was played in front of 49,000 spectators at the Hamburg Arena, the young Argentines came in 78 minutes for José Antonio Reyes on the lawn and was thereafter until the final whistle of the match after 120 minutes of the game in action. The game was decided by two goals from Diego Forlan in favor of the Spanish club. After only three days later, the last league game of the season was completed in 2009/10, Atlético Madrid in the final standings ranked only ninth place. In addition to the success in the Europa League managed the team in the Copa del Rey 2009/10, to the finals of the competition where one however lost to FC Sevilla 0:2; Salvio sat in this meeting about the entire game without using it on the bench. In the pre-season before the season 2010/ 11 is still in the Madrid squad on August 19 followed by a leihweiser change Salvios to Portugal to Benfica. Earlier, various other international clubs had announced their interest in borrowing offensive player whose contract with Atlético Madrid runs until the summer of 2015.
On loan to Lisbon
After 13 league appearances and two league matches Salvio tried his luck from August 2010 with a loan contract for one season with the Portuguese giants Benfica. He did not have to wait long for his competitive debut and has already been used on August 28, 2010 in a 3-0 home win over Vitória Setúbal from the start and replaced at half time by Ruben Amorim. After about a month without the use Salvio came on 25 September 2010 in another league game back in the team and was only four days later for the first time in the UEFA Champions League active. He was inducted into the group stage of the Champions League season 2010/11 in the first leg against FC Schalke 04 from the start and replaced in the 62nd minute for Pablo Aimar. After another league and Champions League inserts ( among other things against FC Schalke 04, Olympique Lyon and Hapoel Tel Aviv) managed the team at the end of the group stage, not via a third place in their group out. This third place, the team was, however, no longer be entitled to participate further in the Champions League, but was allowed to participate as all group Third, the Round of the Europa League 2010/11. There the team met on February 24 and February 17, 2011 in home-and -away basis against VfB Stuttgart. The first leg they won by 0-1 or 2-1. In the return match in Stuttgart that Salvio scored 1-0. The game finally ended 2-0, which Benfica with a Gesamtergebinis of 4:1 reached the next round. For the first scoring for the Portuguese capital club in league play operation came Salvio on 18 December 2010 when he scored for his team in a 5-2 home win over Rio Ave FC on 62 and 73 minutes; the three remaining goals scored by Pablo Aimar and Javier Saviola two more Landsmännder Salvios. Already during his next competitive match use on January 2, 2011 Salvio met the 2-0 victory over Marítimo Funchal in the Taça da Liga once again.
Return to Lisbon
After Salvio spent the 2011/12 season again in Madrid, he moved to the following season back to Benfica.
National team career
From the U-15, U - 17 and U -20 ...
First international experience gained Salvio already in the U- 15 team in his home country before he was drafted in the advanced young age in the U- 17 national team of Argentina. With this he took part, among others, the Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-17 in 2007, where he reached the third place in the team. Due to this field, the team was automatically qualified for the taking place in the same year U- 17 World Cup in South Korea. There Salvio was used as a regular force of his team in all five games and was eliminated in the quarterfinals to eventual U- 17 World Cup Nigeria 0-2 from the current competition out. Overall, he brought it to the end of his U-17 career on 14 caps and scored three goals. From 2008 Salvio was eventually used in the youth team of his home country and participated with this, among others, at the U-20 South American Championship 2009, where, as mentioned earlier, not addition managed the team over the last place in the final round. Salvio itself was the strongest scorer of Argentina in the tournament with four goals. By the end of his junior career of the offensive player was used in nine U-20 international matches, where he came four times to score.
To ... in the senior national team of Argentina
After outstanding performances in the league as well as in the other national selections Salvio was taken early May 2009 by the then national coach Diego Maradona in the A national team of Argentina. He was employed on 20 May 2009 in a 3-1 victory over Panama; the Argentine team consisted exclusively of players from the Argentine Primera División and had no legionaries in their ranks. For a further albeit unofficial international match of the young Argentines came on 22 December 2009 at a 2:4 - Ländspielniederlagege against the Catalan football team. Although he was first traded as a candidate for the Argentine squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he came to date (as of January 2011) in any single international match encounter Argentina longer used.