Fernando Ezequiel Cavenaghi (; born 21 September 1983) is a retired Argentine professional
footballer
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. He played as a
striker who was efficient in front of goal with either foot and from any range. More recently, in 2021, Cavenaghi was the co-owner, along with
Alejandro Domínguez, of Uruguayan football club
Racing Club de Montevideo
Racing Club de Montevideo is a professional football club from Montevideo in Uruguay. It currently participates in the Uruguayan Primera División since winning the Torneo Competencia in 2022.
Racing CM is known as "La Escuelita" (The Little Sc ...
, until 2023 when the club was sold to
Bayern Munich
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.
He spent most of his career with
River Plate in three separate spells, playing 210 games and scoring 112 goals, while winning honours including the
2014 Copa Sudamericana
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and the
2015 Copa Libertadores
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...
. Abroad, he had his best successes with
Bordeaux
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, whom he helped win a
Ligue 1
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title and two each of the
Coupe de la Ligue
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and
Trophée des Champions
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. He also had short spells in Spain, Brazil, Mexico and Cyprus, finishing as the
Cypriot First Division
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's top scorer as
APOEL won it in his final year as a professional.
Cavenaghi was part of the
Argentina under-20 team that won the
2003 South American Youth Championship
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, finishing as its top scorer with eight goals. In the same year, he was part of the team that reached the semi-finals at the
FIFA U-20 World Cup
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, and was joint top scorer with four goals. He earned four caps for the senior team in 2008.
Club career
River Plate
Born in
O'Brien,
Buenos Aires Province
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, Cavenaghi played for Rivadavia de Chacabuco and Bravado in the regional leagues between the ages of nine and twelve.
Cavenaghi made his professional debut for
River Plate in the 2000–01 season in which he scored one goal in five appearances. In his first full season he scored 17 goals in 23 appearances, including a hat-trick against
Estudiantes.
Spartak Moscow
In July 2004, Cavenaghi moved abroad for the first time, joining
Spartak Moscow for a fee of US$12 million, then a record for a Russian team. He failed to adapt to Russian football, and was frozen out of the team following the arrival of manager
Vladimir Fedotov in April 2006, whom he publicly criticised for his tactics. He was put up for sale that December.
Girondins de Bordeaux

On 22 January 2007, Cavenaghi was sold to French club
Bordeaux
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. He signed a four-and-a-half-year deal for a €7 million fee. Through an
Italian passport
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earned by his ancestry, he could work freely in the European Union. On 3 February he played his first
Ligue 1
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match against
Nice
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with a 1–0 win over
Lyon
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in the
final
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, with Cavenaghi an unused substitute. During the 2007–08 season he scored 22 goals in 35 appearances for Bordeaux.
In the
2008 Trophée des Champions, Cavenaghi came on as a 70th-minute substitute for
Alou Diarra in a goalless draw against Lyon at the
Stade Chaban-Delmas
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Until 2001, the stadium's ...
. Though both he and
David Bellion had their attempts saved by
Grégory Coupet
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Coupet is most well known for his lengthy career at Lyon where he won seven Ligue 1 titles. He also played for Saint-Étienne, Atlét ...
in the
penalty shootout
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, Bordeaux were victorious. In the
2008–09 Ligue 1
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season Cavenaghi helped Bordeaux to its first league title in ten years, scoring 13 goals in 29 league matches. The team also won the Coupe de la Ligue in the same season, with Cavenaghi scoring in a 4–2 home win over
Guingamp
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in the last 16. The ''Girondins'' won their third honour of the calendar year on 25 July 2009 as they
retained the Trophée des Champions with a 2–0 win over Guingamp in
Montreal
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, Cavaneghi scoring the opening goal for
Laurent Blanc
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's team.
Cavenaghi signed for Spanish club
Mallorca
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The capital of the island, Palma, Majorca, Palma, i ...
on 26 August 2010 a season-long loan with the option to purchase for €3.5 million. He scored six goals in 13 total games for the
Balearic club, all in the form of braces against
Real Sociedad
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in
La Liga
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, and
Sporting Gijón
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and
Almería
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in the
Copa del Rey
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.
In January 2011 Cavenaghi joined Brazil's
Internacional on a year-long loan, with option to make it permanent for €2.5 million.
Return to River Plate

In July 2011, after leaving his contract at Bordeaux a year early, Cavenaghi returned to River Plate. He was appointed captain of the club, who had been relegated. He scored 19 goals in 37 league matches that season, including a notable performance against
Gimnasia de Jujuy where he scored four goals. In his one-season back he helped the club capture the
2011-12 Primera B Nacional and gain promotion back to the first division.
Villarreal
Cavenaghi returned to Spain in August 2012 by signing for
Villarreal
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The town is located at 42 m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's capital ( ...
, who themselves had fallen into the
Segunda División
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. On his debut on 17 August, he scored in each half of a 2–1 win over
Real Madrid Castilla
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at the
Estadio El Madrigal. He totalled 19 appearances and four goals for the "Yellow Submarine", but cut his stay short in January 2013 Cavenaghi when he signed for
Pachuca
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of the Mexican
Liga MX
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.
Third stint at River Plate
In early 2014, Cavenaghi joined River Plate for the third time. He would wear his number 9 throughout his 3rd stay. River Plate became Champion in
Argentina's Primera División 2014, making them eligible to several continental/international tournaments in 2014–15.
As captain, Cavenaghi led River Plate to achieve a sweep of all three international championships:
2014 Copa Sudamericana
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,
2015 Recopa Sudamericana and the
2015 Copa Libertadores
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...
. Included in these campaigns were two eliminations of arch-rival
Boca Juniors
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, first in the Sudamericana and later in Libertadores. Winning the
Copa Libertadores
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would make River Plate eligible to play in the
2015 FIFA Club World Cup
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in Japan representing
CONMEBOL
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. He was the second-highest scorer in
Argentina's Primera División 2015 with 11 goals.
APOEL and retirement
On 25 August 2015, Cavenaghi moved back to Europe signing a two-year contract with
Cypriot First Division
The Cypriot First Division (), also known as the Cyprus League by Stoiximan for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Cyprus and the highest level of the Cypriot football league system. Operated by the Cyprus Fo ...
club
APOEL FC
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. Five days later, he scored twice on his debut in a 6–2 home victory against
Pafos FC
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for the
Cypriot First Division
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. He scored in each of his first seven
league appearances, totalling twelve goals in that sequence. He helped APOEL to win the
Cypriot First Division
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title, and despite playing his last match on 10 February 2016, missing the last three months of the season due to his injury, he also won the top goalscorer award with 19 goals in only 18 league appearances.
Cavenaghi appeared in 26 matches and scored 23 goals in all competitions with APOEL, before a serious knee injury forced him to mutually terminate his contract with the club on 2 April 2016, as his recovery from the knee surgery was estimated to take more than eight months to complete. His serious knee injury eventually forced Cavenaghi to retire from the professional scene, making the official announcement through a YouTube video on 27 December 2016 at River Plate's
El Monumental in Buenos Aires.
International career
In December 2002, manager
Hugo Tocalli named Cavenaghi in the
Argentina under-20 team for the
2003 South American U-20 Championship in Uruguay. He was top scorer with eight goals – four in each stage – as the Argentines won the title, and scored the only one against
Colombia
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on 28 January to seal the Championship.
In October, Cavenaghi was again called up by Tocalli for the squad at the
2003 FIFA U-20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. In the last 16 against
Egypt
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in
Dubai
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, he scored both goals, including the
golden goal
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, in a 2–1 victory. He scored a golden goal again in the quarter-finals against the
United States
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in
Abu Dhabi
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. Argentina finished fourth and Cavenaghi was one of four top scorers with four goals apiece, though the Golden Shoe award went to
Eddie Johnson of the United States.
However, due to not being released by River Plate for the
2004 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament
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, Cavenaghi would not get any chances with
Marcelo Bielsa
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.
He had then the fifth better goal average in River Plate history, very close to
Alfredo Di Stéfano
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, but he missed the
2004 Summer Olympics
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, won by Bielsa's team. Bielsa resigned soon after the gold medal and Cavenaghi got a first chance in
Argentina senior team on 29 December, in a non-official match against
Catalonia
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.
José Pekerman, the new Argentina coach, used him as a substitute for
Diego Milito
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.
The game was a 3–0 win at the
Camp Nou
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.
In March 2008, Cavenaghi's form for Bordeaux earned him a first official call up to the senior national side by
Alfio Basile, ahead of a friendly against
Egypt
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on 26 March. He made his debut in the 2–0 win at the
Cairo International Stadium
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as a 69th-minute substitute for
Julio Cruz and played three more friendlies that year. He would get just four more caps, saying that "at my best moment in France, I was called up to a few games, but
Messi,
Agüero and
Higuaín were already there and it was very difficult to find a place among these players".
Personal life
Cavenaghi is the oldest of four brothers (Marcos, Belén, and Nicolás) to Edgardo Cavenaghi and Mónica Ferrero and has been a River Plate fan since his infancy. Cavenaghi married his wife, Soledad Gaynor, in 2007 and had his first child, Benjamín, on 2 October 2008. Benjamín currently plays in the youth system of Uruguayan club
Deportivo Maldonado
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The Liga Profesional de Primera División (American ...
and was called up in 2024 to represent Uruguay in the
under-17 national team. In 2010, Cavenaghi's daughter, Sofie, was born.
Career statistics
Honours
River Plate
*
Argentina Primera Division:
2002 Clausura,
2003 Clausura,
2004 Clausura,
2014 Final
*
Primera B Nacional
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:
2011–12 Primera B Nacional
*
Copa Sudamericana
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:
2014
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*
Recopa Sudamericana
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:
2015
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* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
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*
Copa Libertadores
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:
2015
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* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
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January
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Internacional
*
Campeonato Gaúcho
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:
2011
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Bordeaux
*
Ligue 1
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:
2008–09
*
Trophée des Champions
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:
2008
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,
2009
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*
Coupe de la Ligue
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:
2006–07,
2008–09
APOEL
*
Cypriot First Division
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:
2015–16
Argentina U20
*
South American Youth Championship South American Youth Championships may refer to:
* South American Youth Football Championship
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:
2003
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Demographic ...
Individual
*
South American U-20 Championship
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Golden Shoe:
2003
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*
Argentine Primera División
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top scorer:
2001–02 Clausura
*
Cypriot First Division
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top scorer:
2015–16
References
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1983 births
Living people
Footballers from Buenos Aires Province
Men's association football forwards
Argentine men's footballers
Argentina men's international footballers
Argentina men's under-20 international footballers
Club Atlético River Plate footballers
FC Spartak Moscow players
FC Girondins de Bordeaux players
RCD Mallorca players
SC Internacional players
Villarreal CF players
C.F. Pachuca players
APOEL FC players
Ligue 1 players
Russian Premier League players
Argentine Primera División players
Primera Nacional players
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Liga MX players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Cypriot First Division players
Copa Libertadores–winning players
Copa Sudamericana–winning players
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil
Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in France
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Brazil
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Argentine people of Italian descent
21st-century Argentine sportsmen