Profile Claudio Pizarro

Personal information :

Full name : Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio
Date of birth : 3 October 1978
Place of birth : Callao, Peru
Height : 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Werder Bremen
Number : 24
Youth career :
Academia Deportiva Cantolao
Senior career :
1996–1997 Deportivo Pesquero
1997–1999 Alianza Lima
1999–2001 Werder Bremen
2001–2007 Bayern Munich
2007–2009 Chelsea
2008–2009 Werder Bremen (loan)
2009– Werder Bremen
National team :
1999– Peru

Club career

Deportivo Pesquero

Pizarro began playing as a youth in the Academia Deportiva Cantolao in Callao. He began his businessman career playing with Deportivo Pesquero, a small provincial team in the city of Chimbote in the north of Peru, at the age of seventeen. His first businessman game was in 1996 against Alianza Lima. He scored his first two targets pair weeks subsequent against Atletico Torino in the victory of Deportivo Pesquero 2–1.

Alianza Lima

Pizarro scored 25 targets across pair seasons with Alianza Lima and was fraction of the Alianza team that arrived second location in the Torneo Apertura of Peru in 1999. Shortly afterwards Alianza's second location, Pizarro was marketed to German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen. Later that year, he earned his first cap for the national team of Peru.

Werder Bremen

Pizarro's 29 targets across pair seasons for Werder Bremen prepared the soaring star of Peruvian football more coveted via administrators of main European clubs. After the 2000–01 season, Werder broadcast that it would not prevent Pizarro from shifting to a increased club, and the clash to lock the Peruvian forward's services intensified. The media signaled that Real Madrid and Barcelona of Spain, Internazionale of Italy, and Werder's Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund were in the running to clue Pizarro. The majority speculated transfer in Peruvian football monopolized the hobby of the national press. After appearing destined for Spain, Pizarro ended weeks of speculation via signing for Bayern Munich on seven June 2001.

Bayern Munich

The “Anden-Bomber” (“Andes Bomber”, a reference to his South American home rural as well as legendary Bayern striker Gerd Müller, whoever was nicknamed “Bomber”) or sometimes paged “Inca God” via the media, began well with Bayern Munich scoring his first target with the Bavarian team in the fourth tiny of the game against Schalke 04 (the second date of the Bundesliga 2001–2002). Pizarro's contract with the German heroes expired at the end of the 2006–07 season and negotiations on an extension were not earning progress, with Sevilla, Benfica and Rangers poised to stair in and produce a move. Pizarro subsequent discarded a contract extension presented via Bayern chairman Franz Beckenbauer, challenging an boost in reward which antagonised Karl-Heinz Rummenigge whoever was quoted phrase that “Anyone wishing to earn as much as Shevchenko had superior begin playing like Shevchenko.” On twenty May 2007, Bayern Munich broadcast Pizarro would be retiring the club.

Chelsea

On 1 July 2007, Chelsea officially gestured Pizarro and confirmed that he had ended his medical and matched on physical terms to attend the club on a Bosman transfer, signing a four-year deal. He is the first Peruvian to clue for Chelsea. Pizarro also disclosed that his verdict was largely affected via the advice of his national team team-mate Nolberto Solano, whoever played in England with Newcastle, Aston Villa and West Ham United, as well as Manchester United's Owen Hargreaves (who at the time also played for Bayern Munich). Pizarro was allocated the figure 14, the same figure he frays for Peru, and his prior shirt figure at Bayern Munich. He succeeded Geremi as the holder of the shirt figure 14 at Chelsea. His Chelsea career obtained off to a good begin, scoring a target on his debut on the opportunity weekend of the 2007–08 Premier League season. However, afterwards José Mourinho's withdrawal, and the signing of French striker Nicolas Anelka, Pizarro found himself excess to qualifications via the thereafter fresh administrator Avram Grant. Pizarro did play an significant role in Chelsea underway to the 4th around of the FA Cup 2008, via contributing to the target which rebounded off QPR keeper Lee Camp and into the net. He thereafter went on to score the merely target in a suit against Birmingham.

Loan to Werder Bremen

On 15 August 2008, he was lent until the end of the season to Werder Bremen. Soon afterwards the announcement that Pizarro would be stringing the team, a great team of Werder Bremen fans queued to purchase the fresh Pizarro jersey illustrating that Pizarro is motionless realised in Bremen, seven years afterwards retiring the club. He has been allocated the figure 24 jersey and has been definite and significant for the club, scoring a lot goals. Pizarro's role has been radical in the qualification of Werder to the UEFA Cup Final, facilitating score targets and get rid of teams such as A.C. Milan and German rivals Hamburg, amongst others. However with the absence of Werder playmaker Diego from the final with Shakhtar Donetsk, Pizarro could not save the team from a 2–1 defeat afterwards extra time.

Return to Werder Bremen

On 18 August 2009, Pizarro gestured with Werder Bremen for an undisclosed payment afterwards impressing for Werder in the earlier season, scoring 17 targets in 26 appearances. In his second season at Werder Bremen, he lasted to be a lid Bundesliga scorer with 16 targets and arrived the lid foreign scorer record. On 23 October 2010, Pizzaro scored his 134th target in the Bundesliga earning him the lid scoring foreign-born actor in the league history afterwards being horizontal with Giovane Elber.

International career

Claudio Pizarro has been a regular for Peru since 1999, and was the captain succeeding Nolberto Solano. His career in the national team has not mirrored his club career, as he has scored merely 13 targets, merely six of which have been in official matches. Pizarro has been a beginning actor in the qualifying tournaments for the 2002 Japan-Korea World Cup, the 2006 Germany World Cup, and the first three sport of the 2010 South Africa World Cup. Fans of the Peruvian national team have complained of his lackluster performance in the qualifiers: merely three targets scored during three tournaments. In the Copa América 2004 as shortly as playing for the Peruvian National team he suffered a fractured skull, as shortly as he took an elbow to the chief in an on-field collision during a 3–1 win across Venezuela which coerced him out of the Copa America and needed extensive medicine in Germany. He was not able to play for across three months afterwards the incident. Under the administration of Julio Cesar Uribe, Pizarro played for Peru in the 2007 Copa América, scoring pair targets against Bolivia. On seven December 2007 an analysis on having introduced women and alcohol into the national squad's hotel pair days ago Peru's away beating at the hands of Ecuador (5–1) began running, and Pizarro has therefore been suspended 18 months from the national team beginning on the day ago the match. Other Peruvian players founded abroad like Jefferson Farfan and others were also suspended. Since Pizarro asserted to be innocent, he began a experiment against the Peruvian Football Federation. This movement alarmed FIFA approximate the shell whoever warned the actor approximate not taking it to the regular judges or he could face an global ban. On three July 2008, afterwards an analysis and a audit of the observations, the suspension was altered to merely three months (from the date of attract in April 2008) and $10,000 fine. Pizarro served the three month ban.
On 17 April 2009, Pizarro won a court victory across his national federation. The Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned a $10,000 fine inflicted on Pizarro via the Peruvian football club afterwards the alleged November 2007 incident. "The observations placed forth via (the federation) concerning Pizarro were not advocated via masonry evidence," sport's highest court said in a statement.
Pizarro conveyed his satisfaction with the final result. He explained: "I am very pleased and touch vindicated, Pizarro said. "My honor has been restored. My family and guys have invariably stood via me and knew that these were all just lies that were being spread approximate me. But this verdict shall now also give certainty to everybody whoever had fears that I have invariably confided the truth.[9]
Despite these results nor him nor any of the other suspended players were ever paged for the duration of the World Cup South Africa qualification sport via bus Del Solar. Pizarro's opinion as team captain had already been paged into doubt via the fans, whoever sensed he that he would concentrate more on his hobbies (such as horse racing) than training as shortly as he would go to Peru.