José Luis Chilavert
José Luis Chilavert, 1985
José Luis Félix Chilavert ( born July 27, 1965 in Luque ) is a former Paraguayan football goalkeeper. He scored over 60 goals in his career for clubs and the national team and was one of the most prolific goalkeepers in the world. From 1989 to 2003 he played 74 times for the Paraguay national football team and scored eight goals.
Life
Already at the young age of 15, José Luis Chilavert rose at his home club Sportivo Luqueño in Paraguay on the goalkeeper. At the age of 18 he was in the first Paraguayan Guarani Asuncion League in his debut. After one season, he left the team again already and moved to Argentina to San Lorenzo de Almagro in Buenos Aires.
In 1988 Chilavert moved to Spain to Real Zaragoza. He left the club in 1992 after disputes with the coach and a place on the bench. For the season 1992/93 he moved back to Argentina for first division club Velez Sarsfield. 1996 Chilavert was sentenced to three months in prison on probation and a 13- month restriction, since in 1994 he knocked down a ball boy. He appealed, but the Supreme Court of Argentina 1999 confirmed the penalty. In November of 2000 Chilavert moved to the start of the French second round for the second time to Europe. There he played in the 2000 season / 01 ( second round ) and 2001/ 2002 for the French club Racing Strasbourg, with whom he cut off relegation at the end of the table in the French second division in 2002. After the descent had already been decided in the league, Strasbourg still won the French Cup final, in which Chilavert saved a penalty and then scored the decisive itself.
At the peak of his career came in 1998 when he. Paraguay his country, outsiders in the South American qualifying group, acted as team captain for the football World Cup 1998 in France As Paraguay surprisingly survived the group stage there enhanced attention fell on the captain of the team who had conceded only one goal in three games.
In the group match against Bulgaria Chilavert missed a free kick from 20 meters to the crossbar, it would be almost succeeded him as the first goalkeeper in football history to score a field goal in a World Cup. In the next round against the eventual champions France, he took his team, which was described by many critics as grossly overtaxed, almost single-handedly to the extension in which Laurent Blanc via Golden Goal scored for France and the game decided.
After Chilavert was the last time voted " World's Best Goalkeeper of the Year" in 1998, he emerged since 2001 is no longer included in the statistics of the ten world's best goalkeepers and finished his career in 2002. Reason for this was the fact that he did not for the Paraguayan national team was nominated.
During his career, he came again and again with the Argentinean soccer player Martin Palermo ( Boca Juniors, Real Betis Balompié ) together. Duels of the two stars had the most violent battles of words, hard fouls and red cards to offer. Another example of his temper could be seen in the World Cup qualifier against Brazil: As Roberto Carlos wanted to shake his hand, Chilavert spat at him. Therefore, he had to follow from the stands the first game of the 2002 World Cup. Paraguay different again in the second round, this time 0-1 against the German national team.
In 2004, the now 39 -year-old Chilavert a surprising comeback in his parent club Velez Sarsfield, with whom he had already celebrated in the 90s greater success. However, he retired after his last game on 11 November 2004, in which he scored a goal, again from active football back.
In July 2005, he was convicted in France for fraud at his former club Racing Strasbourg to six months probation.
Awards
- World Cup: 1994
- Copa Libertadores: 1994
- Champion of Argentina: 1993, 1995, 1996
- Cup of France: 2001
- World's Best Goalkeeper: 1995, 1997, 1998
- South America's Footballer of the Year: 1996
- Argentine Footballer of the Year: 1996