Claudio Pizarro

Claudio Pizarro in Club clothing Werder Bremen (2010)

Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio ( born October 3, 1978 in Callao ) is a Peruvian football player, who also has Italian citizenship.

Childhood and youth

His childhood was spent Pizarro, whose father is a naval officer, along with two siblings in Santiago de Surco, a district of the Lima Province. Pizarro was considered a typical street footballer who was also interested in other sports such as basketball, golf and tennis.

Pizarro began in 1991 at the age of twelve years at Academica Deportiva Cantolao to play football. He was nominated for the U- 17 national team of Peru and played as a 17 -year-old for the first time at Deportivo Pesquero, before he ran aground a half years for Alianza Lima.

Career

Association

Deportivo Pesquero

Pizarro began his professional career with the Peruvian club Deportivo Pesquero at the age of 17 years. In 1996 he completed his debut against Alianza Lima. He scored his first two goals two weeks later in a 2-1 victory against Atlético Torino.

Alianza Lima

In 1998 he moved to Alianza Lima and scored in the first two seasons 25 hits. He reached the second place in the Torneo Apertura Peruvian behind Universitario de Deportes with the team in 1999.

SV Werder Bremen

He was bound by the SV Werder Bremen for a fee of 1.5 million euros in 1999. In his first season in Germany Pizarro scored ten goals in 25 games. The following year he became a regular player, scoring 19 goals in 31 games.

FC Bayern Munich

Due to this success, the FC Bayern Munich became aware of Pizarro and signed him in the summer of 2001 for 8.2 million euros. With Bayern he won three league and cup double in (2003, 2005, 2006), the World Cup ( 2001) and the DFB - League Cup ( 2004). The 30 June 2007 expiring contract was not renewed because Pizarro had rejected an offer of FC Bayern.

Move to Chelsea and return to Bremen

For the season 2007/ 08 Pizarro joined free transfer to the English first division club Chelsea FC, where he signed a four year contract. He could not prevail there was usually only a substitute and was able to achieve only two league goals.

Pizarro joined the 2008/09 season for a year on loan back to SV Werder Bremen. He scored 17 goals and was Werder's top scorer. This season he won the DFB Cup with Werder.

He then first again to Chelsea back in London and graduated from the pre-season. On 18 August 2009 he signed a three -year contract with Werder Bremen with an option for another year. He continued to prove important performers and achieved by 2012 in three years 43 hits, which he replaced with Giovane Elber a total of 160 gates as best foreign Protect the Bundesliga.

Return to Munich

For the 2012/13 season Pizarro returned free transfer back to Bayern Munich, where he signed a one year contract until 30 June 2013. On August 20, 2012, he appeared as a substitute in the first round of the DFB Cup SSV Jahn Regensburg in the 80 minutes for the double goal scorers Mario Mandzukic and Xherdan Shaqiri after submission of scored eight minutes later the gate to a 4-0 draw. After a few brief appearances in the Bundesliga Pizarro marked with a 6-1 home win in the Champions League group match against Lille OSC three hits. On March 30, 2013 ( 27th Round ), he scored the 9:2 home win over Hamburger SV first four goals and prepared two additional hits before. At the end of the season he won with Bayern Munich, the Triple from German Cup, DFB Cup and UEFA Champions League. On 4 July 2013, the club announced that it has Pizarro's contract extended by a year until 30 June 2014. On February 15, 2014 Pizarro won with Bayern against SC Freiburg his 200th Bundesliga game in which he also scored the 4-0 final score.

National

Pizarro was captain of the national team of his country, which failed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In eleven qualifiers in which he was employed, he scored only one goal.

Previously, Pizarro had already taken part in the Copa America 2004 Peru, where the team had failed in the quarterfinals to Argentina. In one game, he suffered a skull ceiling crack initiation and fell several months.

In October 2006, he negotiated a trouble with the coach Franco Navarro, as he played only one of two international matches against arch-rivals Chile in order to return in time for Bayern Munich can. For the case of punishment by FIFA or the Peruvian Football Federation he threatened to resign from the national team. In a letter Pizarro finally asked the Peruvian Football Federation, to be no longer nominated for international matches, as long as Franco Navarro is coach.

In July 2008, the combined internal lock for participating in the boycott players was lifted. Nevertheless, Pizarro was not initially considered. On March 29, 2011, he came in a friendly against Ecuador in The Hague used again. On June 17, 2011, he suffered in a practice match of the national team a ligament tear, so it turned out for the 2011 Copa América.

Achievements

  • FIFA Club World Cup FIFA Club World Cup 2013
  • Winner in 2001 with FC Bayern Munich
  • Winner in 2013 with FC Bayern Munich ( 2-1 Borussia Dortmund in London)
  • Finalist in 2008 with the Chelsea FC ( 6:7 nE Manchester United in Moscow inferior )
  • Finalist in 2009 with Werder Bremen ( 1:2 nV Shakhtar Donetsk in Istanbul inferior )
  • Winner in 2013 with FC Bayern Munich
  • Champion 2003, 2005, 2006, 2013 and 2014 with FC Bayern Munich
  • Winner in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2013 with FC Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen 2009
  • Finalist in 2000 and 2010 with Werder Bremen
  • 2004 winner with FC Bayern Munich
  • Previous winners 2012 with FC Bayern Munich
  • Since 23 October 2010 ( 9th Round; Borussia Mönchengladbach - Werder Bremen 1:4) and his 134th goal ( the 287th game ) he is leading scorer of all previous foreign Bundesliga players (until then: Giovane Elber, 133 Tore/260 games); are now 171 goals in 366 games for beech (as of April 5, 2014 ). With his 337th Bundesliga use at home to VfL Wolfsburg on 25 September 2012, he is the most widely used foreign players.

Awards

  • Scorer in the UEFA Europa League: 2010 with nine goals (next Óscar Cardozo )
  • DFB Cup top scorer: 2005 (6 matches next Carsten Jancker ), 2006 (5 matches )
  • Scorer of the month: February 2001, September 2008, April 2010

Others

  • Pizarro married in 1999 his school friend and high school sweetheart, Karla Salcedo, who, on 17 October, the first child, a son, brought in the same year to the world. He is now a father of three children.
  • His brother Diego is also footballer who is currently the Peruvian second division Coronel Bolognesi under contract. Previously, he was between 2005 and 2009 in the young field of FC Bayern Munich active.
  • Besides football Claudio Pizarro's love belongs to the horses. Together with his former teammate Tim Borowski of Bremen belongs to him including the three year old stallion Black Arrow. Training is the racehorse of Andreas Wöhler, head of the stud Ravens mountain in Gütersloh. On August 21, 2011 Black Arrow was sprinting at the Ascot Race Day in Hannover for his first victory, ridden by jockey Eduardo Pedroza.
Italy 2007–08 Premier League Giovane Élber 2004 Copa América 2012–13 UEFA Champions League 2007–08 UEFA Champions League Manchester United F.C. 2008–09 UEFA Cup FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2002–03 DFB-Pokal 2004–05 DFB-Pokal 2005–06 DFB-Pokal 2012–13 DFB-Pokal 2008–09 DFB-Pokal 1999–2000 DFB-Pokal 2009–10 DFB-Pokal 2004 DFB-Ligapokal Abendzeitung David Alaba Holger Badstuber Dante (footballer) Toni Kroos Philipp Lahm Manuel Neuer Arjen Robben Bastian Schweinsteiger Tom Starke Mitchell Weiser
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