Javier Saviola came through the youth ranks at River Plate, making his debut at the tender age of 16 and slowly forming one-quarter of a formidable quartet: Saviola, Pablo Aimar, Ariel Ortega and Juan Pablo Angel, more commonly known as the fantastic four.
It seems hard to believe that a player once labelled the “new Maradona”, disappeared off the radar. When he burst onto the scene with River Plate, and in his first few years at Barcelona, Javier Saviola looked like a future Ballon d’Or winner. When Saviola retired, it barely made a headline.
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