Profile Gonzalo Higuain

Personal information

Full name : Gonzalo Gerardo Higuaín
Date of birth : 10 December 1987 (age 23)
Place of birth : Brest, France
Height : 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Real Madrid
Number : 20
Senior career :
2004–2007 River Plate
2007– Real Madrid
National team :
2008 Argentina U23
2009– Argentina

Club career

River Plate

Higuaín began playing in the youth teams and prepared his debut with River Plate in a 2–1 defeat against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata on 29 May 2005. On 12 February 2006, he scored his first league target in a 3–1 victory across Banfield. Higuaín ended the 2005–06 season with five targets in 12 appearances.
Following his brace in the Superclásico derby against Boca Juniors on eight October 2006, River Plate administrator Daniel Passarella certified that Higuain had an "enormous future" and was "destined for superstardom." In the chasing season, he scored eight targets in 17 league matches.

Real Madrid

On December 2005, Spanish club Real Madrid gestured Higuaín for €13 million, afterwards River Plate had sooner declined a €10 million offer for the 19-year-old striker. His debut came on January 11 2007 against Real Betis in the second around of the Copa del Rey in Seville. His performance at the League came three days subsequent, on January 14 2007, against Real Zaragoza at home. Higuain was interested in the invention of many scoring chances and in the contribution for the merely target, which earned Madrid the victory. His first target with Real came on February 24 as shortly as the team faced Atletico Madrid in the Madrid derby, scoring the knotting target (1-1) at the Estadio Vicente Calderón. Later on the season, Higuaín illustrated an grand performance via scoring a final tiny target on a league suit against RCD Espanyol to earn his team a 4-3 victory as shortly as the tie was rampant on the scoreboard.

However, during his first season in the Bernabeú, Higuaín stemmed several fears across his performance due to his shortage of goals.
During the 2007-08 season, Higuaín faced a quite intermittent performance. Yet, during the final phases of the league he handled to consolidate an grand display. He first scored a final tiny target to earn his team a victory in a 2-1 comeback against Osasuna, which permitted Real Madrid to be mathematically crowned League Champions for the second consecutive year. Four days subsequent, Pipita stemmed to the spotlight once more via scoring the 3rd target of a 4-1 wasting across Barcelona in El Clásico. This performance was especially praised due to Higuaín scoring his target hardly 57 seconds afterwards emanating in from the bench.
In the 2008-09 season Higuaín was presented the chance to be a starter due to the grave injury suffered via the Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy . On April 21 2009, he accounted another great performance as shortly as he defined the suit against Getafe with a target in the final tiny, paying Real Madrid a 3-2 victory which enabled the team to chase the trail of Josep Guardiola´s Barcelona. In August 2008, Higuaín scored the winner in Madrid's victory across Valencia in the Spanish Supercup.

Shortly afterwards, he scored all four targets in a 4-3 win against Málaga. Because of this, he began to gain global recognition, at the same time he obtained to be one of the spearheading goalscorers of the Spanish League, alongside his Barcelona counterpart, Samuel Eto'o. That season, the striker was devoted as one of the great assurances of world football in the wake of dramatic sport, and especially dazzling last-minute goals. Higuaín ended the season with 22 league targets, 24 in all contests, gleaming alongside longtime soccer stars like Diego Forlán, David Villa and Thierry Henry.
The 2009-10 season saw Higuaín become Real's lid goalscorer with 27 league targets, 29 in total, being at the same time the Spanish League's 2nd lid goalscorer, behind merely to Lionel Messi but suprassing Swedish global Zlatan Ibrahimovic and even his fellow teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.

In June 2010, Real Madrid prolonged Higuaín's contract until 2016. On October 23 2010, he scored Real Madrid's 5200 league target, against Racing Santander on a 6-1 wasting via the Whites. On November 4 of the same year, Gonzalo enters the history of Real Madrid via being the writer of the club's 700th target in the Champions League.

On the first weeks of December 2010, Higuaín was diagnosed with a herniated lumbar disc, and was advised via Real's medical personnel to have it operated. Even though he's motionless pending a second opinion, he's possible to consume 3-4 months away from the field on a recovery process.

International career

Higuaín originally discarded calls from both the Argentine and French national teams, asserting at the time he was undecided for which rural he would prefer to play, ago selecting Argentina. Higuaín was paged upward via the Argentina Olympic squad for a friendly suit against Guatemala in February 2008, and scored pair targets in his debut as Argentina won 5–0, though the suit was not officially realized via FIFA as "A" global matches.
Higuaín was chosen for Argentina via bus Diego Maradona for the final 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification sport against Peru and Uruguay. He scored his first target on his full debut, a 49th tiny attack during a 2–1 win across Peru on ten October 2009.

He netted his second target for Argentina in the 1-0 win across Germany at the Allianz Arena in Munich on three March 2010, right on the stroke of half-time, pouncing on a blunder prepared via German goalkeeper Rene Adler, in which Higuaín tapped into an frank net from approximate 25 yards out. Following Argentina's qualification, Higuaín was included in the squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He scored a hat-trick in Argentina's 4–1 win across South Korea in their second team suit, becoming the third Argentinian to score a hat-trick in the World Cup finals, afterwards Guillermo Stábile in 1930 and Gabriel Batistuta in 1994 and 1998, and the first actor to score a hat-trick in the tournament since 2002. His target in the 3–1 defeat of Mexico in the Second Round took him to a total of four, and he waited one of the lid scorers for Argentina in the competition.

Shortly afterwards a discouraging World Cup campaign, on September 7th, 2010, Higuaín scored in a friendly suit against newly crowned world heroes Spain earning it 2-0, a game that ended 4-1