Márcio Amoroso
Márcio Amoroso dos Santos (born 5 July 1974 in Brasília ) is a former Brazilian footballer.
Career
End of the 1990s he was considered one of the best strikers in the world. Amoroso, as he is called for short, has Italian citizenship and was therefore in his engagements with European clubs not under the Immigration Quota.
Brazil, Japan and Italy
After his previous positions at his home club Guarani FC and the Japanese first division Verdy Kawasaki (J. League), where he scorer respectively, he went to the Brazilian top club Flamengo Rio de Janeiro, where he briefly the so-called storm of the century with Sávio, Bebeto and Romario formed.
Nevertheless, he was due to injuries not really happy and moved to the Italian Serie A Udinese Calcio as a strike partner of Oliver Bierhoff. In 1999, he won the Italian scorer trophy and changed, courted by top European clubs such as AC Milan, Inter Milan, AS Roma, Lazio, Fiorentina, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid and Borussia Dortmund, finally for 54 billion Italian lire ( about 27 million euros ) the three -time European Cup winners AC Parma. He had, however, disagreed with his coaches and therefore left the club again.
Borussia Dortmund
Amoroso joined in 2001 for 50 million German marks ( around 25 million euros ) by the Italian first division club in the Bundesliga to Borussia Dortmund. This is the seventh most expensive shopping transportation ( by Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Franck Ribery, Arjen Robben, Javi Martinez, Mario Götze and Mario Gómez ) Bundesliga history.
He was in the 2001/02 season with Borussia Dortmund German champion and in the same year, top scorer in the Bundesliga, led the club into the UEFA Cup final (where he scored in a 4-0 victory in the semi-final first leg against AC Milan a hat-trick ) and returned a little later in the Brazilian national team.
At the beginning of the 2002/ 03 Amoroso injured his Achilles tendon and only returned late October back in the squad. However, Dortmund coach Matthias Sammer put him in the episode only sporadically. Throughout the season Amoroso played by not more than 90 minutes, although he continued to achieve important goals for BVB. As his services were sometimes vague and Amorosos playful attitude did not agree with Sammer's philosophy of hard work on the court, the differences between the two enlarged.
At the beginning of the season 2003/ 04 Dortmund Board exerted public pressure on coach Sammer to put back on the Brazilian striker. Amoroso even did the remaining part at a relaxation, by appearing at the start of training on time, pointing in the preparation used. In the first four Bundesliga games for Borussia Amoroso scored four goals until on 11 September 2003 drew upon a portion of the medial collateral ligament tear. Because Amoroso was recovering from his injury in his home, it came to publicly out disagreements with the club's management of Dortmund. Finally, the contract of striker with the club was disbanded on 1 April 2004.
Spain, Brazil, Italy and Greece
He then hired for a season at the Málaga CF. Then he returned to Brazil to São Paulo FC, where he signed a one -year contract until June 2006. In 2005 he won the Copa Libertadores with the club, for which he also contributed a goal in the final. After the victory at the FIFA Club World Championship in 2005, he moved in January 2006 to AC Milan, where he replaced Christian Vieri. But since he could not prevail in Milan, and the reservist status not exceed came, he changed after half a year back to Brazil and signed with Corinthians of Sao Paulo, where he was also dismissed again. Since May 2007 Amoroso was at the Brazilian Série A club Gremio under contract, where his contract but was disbanded in August.
In January 2008, he signed a contract with Aris Thessaloniki. In January 2009, Amoroso moved back to Brazil in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B Guarani Futebol Clube.
Achievements
- German Champion 2002 with Borussia Dortmund
- UEFA Cup Final in 2002 with Borussia Dortmund
- Winner of the Copa Libertadores in 2005 with São Paulo FC
- Winners of the Fifa Club World Cup 2005 with São Paulo FC
- Scorer in the Japan Soccer League 1993 ( Japan)
- Scorer in the Série A 1994 ( Brazil)
- Scorer in the Serie A 1999 ( Italy)
- Scorer in the Bundesliga in 2002 ( Germany )
- Player of the year 1994 ( Brazil):
- Team of the Year 1994 in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol: