Diego Forlán
Forlán lining up for Uruguay in 2014
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| Full name | Diego Forlán Corazzo | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 19 May 1979 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Mumbai City | |||||||||||
| Number | 10 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Peñarol | |||||||||||
| 1991–1994 | Danubio | |||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | Independiente | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1997–2002 | Independiente | 80 | (37) | |||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Manchester United | 63 | (10) | |||||||||
| 2004–2007 | Villarreal | 106 | (54) | |||||||||
| 2007–2011 | Atlético Madrid | 134 | (74) | |||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Internazionale | 18 | (2) | |||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Internacional | 34 | (10) | |||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Cerezo Osaka | 42 | (17) | |||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Peñarol | 31 | (8) | |||||||||
| 2016– | Mumbai City | 11 | (5) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2015 | Uruguay | 112 | (36) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10 December 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 28 June 2014 |
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Diego Forlán Corazzo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo forˈlan]; born 19 May 1979) is an Uruguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club Mumbai City FC. He is a two-time winner of both the Pichichi Trophy and the European Golden Shoe, and also received the Golden Ball as the best player at the 2010 World Cup. He is regarded as one of the greatest Uruguayan players of all time.
Forlán joined Argentine club Independiente after rising through their youth team, and after a successful four-year spell, he signed for Manchester United of England. His form for United was not as successful as at Independiente, although he won the Premier League in 2002–03 and the FA Cup in 2003–04. In the summer of 2004, he moved on to Spanish side Villarreal. In his first season in Spanish football with Villarreal, Forlán scored 25 league goals and won the Pichichi Trophy. After two more successful seasons with Villarreal, Forlán joined Atlético Madrid, where he once again became the league's top scorer, and became the first player to win the Pichichi Trophy twice since Ronaldo achieved this feat in the 2003–04 season. Forlán scored in Atlético's 2010 Europa League final victory against Fulham. In 2011, he joined Inter Milan of Italy before moving to Internacional in 2012.
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