Iván Zamorano
Iván Luis Zamorano Zamora ( born January 18, 1967 in Santiago de Chile ) is a former Chilean football player who was known primarily for its Torriechers and his heading ability. He received the nickname Bam Bam and occasionally - in allusion to his name - Ivan the Terrible. In Italy, he was known as the helicopter as it appeared at balls head, as if he could remain in the air.
From 1987 to 2001 he played in the Chilean national soccer team for which he scored 34 goals in 69 games.
Career start
The first career station Iván Zamorano in Europe was actually the FC Bologna, in 1988, earned his transfer rights from Chilean club Cobresal. However, even before the first competitive match was his coach for him not good enough for the Italian league. The FIFA Agent Vinico Fioranelli brought him then to Switzerland for FC St. Gallen. Fioranelli had time even to pay more to bring the FC St. Gallen to receive Iván Zamorano in the squad. He was a very skinny guy and the newspapers predicted a transfer flop. However, these voices silenced soon as Zamorano in the season 1989/1990 in 33 games scored a total of 23 goals, thus leading scorer of the season was.
Time in Spain
In October 1990, Zamorano made the jump to the Spanish Primera División and moved to FC Sevilla. Due to its good performance in the Andalusians he was obliged in the summer of 1992 for $ 5 million from Real Madrid. The hearts of the local fans he won mainly by his performance in the 5-0 home victory of the people of Madrid against arch-rivals Barcelona in the 1994/95 season, where he played a key role with a hat-trick share. In the same year he won the Spanish league title with Real and was charged with 28 hits in 38 games scorer.
Time in Italy
In 1996 he left Real Madrid and moved to Inter Milan, where he scored 41 goals in 149 official matches. In the 1996/97 season he reached with the Milanese the finals in the UEFA Cup against FC Schalke 04, but this won until a year later in a purely Italian final against Lazio Rome (where he in the 3-0 victory over the Romans the first goal scored ). International attention was Zamorano in this period due to his somewhat idiosyncratic back number. Since he had to give the jersey with the number 9 on this for marketing reasons after the signing of Ronaldo in the summer of 1997, he played from that point on with the shirt number 18, which he by an affixed plus sign between the 1 and the 8 (1 8 ) at least mathematically transformed back into a 9.
End of career
In December 2000, Iván Zamorano joined Club América ( Mexico City ). He played two years quite successfully before he went back to Chile in 2003 to Colo Colo, the club he had admired as a child. He initially made a good name among the fans because he refused because of the financial situation of the poor Colo Colo on a large part of his salary to the club to relieve a little.
At the final leg of their Apertura Round in 2003, the Colo Colo played against CD Cobreloa, but the striker went berserk and attacked due to a controversial offside decision the referee with punches and kicks. The result of his Ausrasters: the red card for violent conduct and subsequently a record lock of eleven games, which was imposed by the Chilean National Association. Colo Colo lost the game 0:4 and Zamorano then ended his professional career.
His last game was the most popular in his home country athletes in Santiago de Chile. A - America selection with Ronaldo, José Luis Chilavert, Alexi Lalas and Carlos Valderrama defeated in this game, a Chilean selection 5-2. Iván Zamorano graduated with two teams each half time.
Today is Iván Zamorano Head of a home based on 4 January 2010 Sports Center in Las Condes, the Escuela de Fútbol - Ciudad Deportivo Iván Zamorano.