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Full name | Pablo Oscar Cavallero Rodríguez | |||||||||||
Date of birth | 13 April 1974 | |||||||||||
Place of birth | Lomas de Zamora, Argentina | |||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||
Vélez Sarsfield | ||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (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) | |||||||||
Total | 254 | (0) | ||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||
1996 | Argentina Olympic | 4 | (0) | |||||||||
1996–2004 | Argentina | 26 | (0) | |||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Pablo Oscar Cavallero Rodríguez (born 13 April 1974) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Nine years of his professional career were spent in Spain, mainly with Celta. He appeared in 152 La Liga games, over the course of eight seasons.
An Argentine international for eight years, Cavallero played with his country in two World Cups and the 2004 Copa América.
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, Celta de Vigo and Levante UD (the last three in Spain's La Liga). With the last club he also competed in Segunda División, appearing in 38 games out of a possible 42 in the 2005–06 season as it returned to the top level.
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.