Cavallero backs Beltrán as he keeps growing at River | OneFootball

After a semester that catapulted him into becoming River’s first-choice goalkeeper in the Apertura Tournament, Santiago Beltrán is still living a dream as he works with the Argentina national team on the eve of the World Cup. As a result, praise keeps pouring in for the young keeper, with Pablo Cavallero—remembered as Argentina’s goalkeeper at the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup—the latest to join the list: “He has a tremendous future.”

“River’s goal has a lot of history, he’s competing with a huge goalkeeper like (Franco) Armani, and he has surprised everyone. I think he has a tremendous future, and he has to take advantage of these situations to learn and apply it at the club,” said the former goalkeeper who came through at Vélez, speaking with Doble Amarilla.

Pablo Cavallero represented the Argentina national team at the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup.

Cavallero’s glowing words add to those recently spoken by Roberto Abbondanzieri, the former multi-title-winning Boca goalkeeper and Argentina World Cup player in Germany 2006, who compared him to another player in his position with extensive experience for the national team, especially at youth level: “His emergence is like that of (Oscar) Ustari. His breakthrough was something very novel at Independiente, but he has a maturity and calmness that surprise me.”

Meanwhile, Beltrán continues his work with the Albiceleste and, although he is not on the list of 26 called up, the truth is that he will be present for Lionel Scaloni’s team’s friendlies against Honduras and Iceland on June 6 and 9. In this way, the River player will gain valuable experience, both in training and in daily contact with world-class players, in another very important step for his career.

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