Claudio Pizarro
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Pizarro with Bayern Munich
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| Full name | Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 3 October 1978 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Callao, Peru | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Werder Bremen | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 14 | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1991–1995 | Cantolao | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Deportivo Pesquero | 41 | (11) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Alianza Lima | 44 | (25) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Werder Bremen | 56 | (29) | ||||||||||||
| 2001–2007 | Bayern Munich | 174 | (71) | ||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Chelsea | 21 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | → Werder Bremen (loan) | 26 | (17) | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Werder Bremen | 77 | (43) | ||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Bayern Munich | 50 | (16) | ||||||||||||
| 2015– | Werder Bremen | 37 | (14) | ||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 1999– | Peru | 85 | (20) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 February 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 March 2016 |
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Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio (American Spanish: [ˈklauðjo piˈsaro]; born 3 October 1978) is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Werder Bremen and the Peru national team. He is well renowned for his goal scoring ability, especially when heading the ball.
He has spent most of his career playing in the Bundesliga, having two spells at Bayern Munich and three at Werder Bremen, during which he won 19 major trophies, 17 of which occurred at Bayern. On 23 October 2010, Pizarro set a new record for most goals scored by a foreign player in the Bundesliga, surpassing Giovane Élber's record of 132 in a game against Borussia Mönchengladbach. As of 3 March 2016, Pizarro is the fifth highest goalscorer in Bundesliga history with 190 goals.
A full international since 1999, Pizarro represented the Peru national football team at four Copa América tournaments.
Pizarro was born to Patricia Bosio and Claudio Pizarro Dávila, a naval officer, in Callao, Peru and raised in the Santiago de Surco district of capital city Lima. He started playing as a youth in the Academia Deportiva Cantolao in Callao.
Pizarro started his professional 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 professional game was in 1996 against Alianza Lima. He scored his first two goals two weeks later against Atletico Torino in the 2–1 victory of Deportivo Pesquero.
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