Martín Palermo

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Martín Palermo
Personal information
Date of birth 7 November 1973
Place of birth    La Plata, Argentina
Nickname El Loco
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current club Boca Juniors
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1991-1997
1997-2000
2001-2003
2003
2004
2004-		 Estudiantes La Plata
Boca Juniors
Villarreal CF
Real Betis
Alaves
Boca Juniors		 93 (32)
108 (91)
70 (18)
11 (2)
14 (3)
73 (41)   
National team2
Argentina 7 (3)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 2005.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 2005.
* Appearances (Goals)

Martín "El Loco" Palermo (born November 7, 1973 in La Plata, Argentina) is a professional footballer currently playing for Boca Juniors of Argentina. He has also played in Argentina for Estudiantes de La Plata as well as in La Liga for Villarreal CF, Real Betis, and Deportivo Alavés.

His career started slowly at Estudiantes de La Plata and it was not until he transferred to Boca Juniors that he won international recognition due to his impressive goal average, and his excellent performances in international matches. The peak of his career was probably the Intercontinental Cup in 2000, when he scored two goals in Boca's 2–1 victory over Real Madrid, catching the attention of football clubs in Spain.

However Palermo then suffered a number of injuries that held him back from a transfer to Lazio in Italy, and also hindered his adaptation to European football when he was finally transferred to Spain:

  • On November 13, 1999 he had a complete tear of the cruciate ligament of his right knee, which required a six-month recovery period.
  • On November 20, 2001, after celebrating a goal, he stood on a small concrete wall, which collapsed under the weight of Villarreal's fans and broke both the tibia and fibula of his left leg, leading to two months of inactivity.

Boca Juniors fans consider him an idol, not only because of the number of goals he has scored for the team, but also for scoring many important goals against Boca's arch rivals River Plate.

On May 24, 2000 he returned to football after more than six months of inactivity after his first major injury. He played the last fifteen minutes of the quarterfinal match of the Copa Libertadores against River Plate, and scored the goal that sealed the victory with what he called "the most emotional goal of my career", leaving the score at 3–0 to Boca Juniors (the first match ended 1–2).

With the Argentine national team he played seven matches, and scored three goals. Rather less impressively, he holds the world record of three penalties missed in one single match, during the match between Argentina and Colombia for the Copa América 1999.

On February 24, 2007, in a game against Independiente de Avellaneda, he scored one of the best goals of his career. During the last minutes of the game he stole the ball from an opponent on his own side of the field and scored from 61.2 meters away from the goal (video). Boca Juniors won that game 3-1. Only 2 weeks later he scored three goals against his former team Estudiantes in the 3-1 Boca's victory at La Plata, and he didn't celebrate any of them[1]. It was the forth triplette of his career. A game later, on March 18, he scored a career high of 4 goals in the 5-1 victory against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata[2], Estudiantes de La Plata's archi-rivals.

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[edit] Achievements

[edit] Team

[edit] Individual

  • Best Player Intercontinental Cup (2000)
  • Best South American Player (1998)
  • Argentine First Division Top Scorer (20 goals, 19 matches) (1998 Apertura)
  • Argentine League 22nd Top Scorer of All Time Career (154 goals)

[edit] Trivia

  • First professional match: July 5, 1992 Clausura. (San Lorenzo 0–0 Estudiantes)
  • First professional goal: May 22, 1993 Apertura (Estudiantes 3–0 San Martín)
  • First european professional match: February 4, 2001. (Villarreal 2–1 Alavés)

[edit] Career

Year Team Matches Goals
2004/07 Boca Juniors 72 37
/2004 Alaves 14 3
2003/ Real Betis 11 2
2002/03 Villarreal CF 34 7
2001/02 Villarreal CF 19 5
/2001 Villarreal CF 17 6
2000/ Boca Juniors 26 15
1999/2000 Boca Juniors 21 21
1998/99 Boca Juniors 39 35
1997/98 Boca Juniors 22 20
1996/97 Estudiantes La Plata 36 14
1995/96 Estudiantes La Plata 27 16
1994/95 Estudiantes La Plata 3 0
1993/94 Estudiantes La Plata 17 1
1992/93 Estudiantes La Plata 9 1
1991/92 Estudiantes La Plata 1 0

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Martín es de Boca" - Diario Ole (Spanish)
  2. ^ "Se volvió loco" - Diario Ole (Spanish)


Boca Juniors - Current Squad

1 Bobadilla | 2 Silvestre | 3 Morel Rodríguez | 4 Ibarra | 5 Battaglia | 6 Díaz | 7 Barros Schelotto | 8 Leandro Díaz | 9 Palermo | 10 Riquelme | 11 Marioni | 12 Caranta | 13 García | 14 Palacio | 15 Marino | 16 Orteman | 17 Boselli | 19 Cardozo | 20 Maidana | 22 Cahais | 23 Dátolo | 24 Banega | 25 Migliore | 27 Ledesma | 29 Franzoia | -- Bertolo | -- Clemente Rodríguez | -- Krupoviesa | -- Mondaini | -- Urribarri | Coach: Russo
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