Iván Zamorano

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Iván Luis Zamorano Zamora (born January 18, 1967 in Santiago) is a former Chilean football striker. He played for several clubs, notably Spanish clubs Sevilla and Real Madrid C.F. as well as Italian club Internazionale. He won the 1994-95 La Liga title and was the season's top scorer with Real Madrid. He also won the UEFA Cup with Internazionale. He was a member of the Chilean national team and played in the 1998 World Cup.

In 2004, Zamorano was selected among the FIFA 100, a list of the best living football players in the world compiled by Pelé.

[edit] Club career

Zamorano started his career at the club Trasandino then he moved to Cobresal in Chile in 1985. In 1988 he moved to Europe to Swiss team FC St. Gallen, scoring 34 goals in 56 matches in three seasons.^[1] In 1991 Zamorano debuted in the Spanish Primera División with Sevilla, where he would play 59 matches and score 21 goals before he was sold to Real Madrid for $5 million.

With Real Madrid, between 1992 and 1996, Zamorano won one league, one Copa del Rey, and one Spanish Supercup titles. In 1995, under the coaching of Jorge Valdano, Zamorano helped Real Madrid win the Spanish League title, scoring 27 goals – including four scores against FC Barcelona –, and received the Pichichi Trophy as the season's top scorer. That year, he formed a particularly effective attacking partnership with playmaker Michael Laudrup. In the 1992-93 and 1994-95 seasons, he won the EFE Trophy, which is awarded to the best Ibero-American player in La Liga every year by Spanish news agency EFE.^[2] In total, Zamorano appeared 137 times for Real Madrid, scoring 77 goals.

After five seasons in the Spanish league, Zamorano played 4 seasons in Serie A with Internazionale, from 1996 to 2000, where he was the teammate of Youri Djorkaeff, Diego Simeone, Javier Zanetti, and Ronaldo, among others. He was initially the club's premier striker, holding the coveted number nine shirt. However, upon Ronaldo's arrival at the club, he was forced to relinquish it, which led to the somewhat bizarre spectacle of his wearing a shirt bearing the number '1+8', making him therefore still technically a no. 9 striker.^[3] In May of 1998, Inter won the UEFA Cup after beating Lazio in the final 3-0, with Zamorano scoring the opening goal.

Zamorano would move to Mexico in 2001 to play for América for two seasons, winning the Torneo de Verano in the first season. He concluded his career playing in Colo-Colo, in late 2003, after a professional career spanning more than 16 years.

[edit] National team

For the Chile national team, Zamorano played 69 times, scoring 34 goals. His debut occurred on June 19, 1987, at age 20, in a friendly match against Peru, a 3-1 win.

On April 29, 1997, he scored five goals in a World Cup qualification match against Venezuela, a 6-0 win for Chile. He played all four of Chile's matches at the 1998 World Cup, setting up Marcelo Salas' goal against Austria.

In the 2000 Olympic Games, he won the bronze medal and was the top scorer with six goals.

His last international match, at age 34, was a farewell friendly match between Chile and France on September 1, 2001, which Chile won 2-1.

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[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Honours

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Chile
Men's Football
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Team Competition

Team titles

• 1987 - Copa Chile winner (Cobresal)
• 1993 - Copa del Rey winner (Real Madrid)
• 1993 - Supercopa de España winner (Real Madrid)
• 1995 - Spanish League winner (Real Madrid)
• 1998 - UEFA Cup (Internazionale)
• 2002 - Mexican League Verano winner (America)

Individual awards

• 1993 - EFE Trophy winner (Real Madrid)
• 1995 - Pichichi Trophy winner (Real Madrid)
• 1995 - EFE Trophy winner (Real Madrid)

[edit] Trivia

• Zamorano was nicknamed Bam Bam (for Bamm-Bamm, a character from The Flintstones), and Iván el Terrible ("Ivan the Terrible").

• Zamorano wore the number 9 jersey for Internazionale until a sponsorship deal with Nike saw Ronaldo given the traditional strikers' number.

• The popstar singer Madonna, during the 1998 FIFA World Cup, called Zamorano "the World Cup sex symbol".

• Zamorano is the promotional face of the new Santiago, Chile transport system Transantiago, which has brought him criticism because of the system's starting failures; some even say his credibility may have been damaged^[4].

[edit] Current life

He is married to Argentine model María Alberó and their first child, a baby girl (Mia Pascale), was born in January 28 of 2006.

Zamorano is currently working as an assistant coach with the Chilean Under-18 national football team; many speculate that he is being groomed to take charge of the Chile national football team at some point in the future. Polls have indicated that Zamorano would be a popular choice with the Chilean public.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• (Spanish) Web page dedicated to Iván Zamorano - biographical information, statistics, multimedia - www.tvn.cl - TVN Deportes, Chile.
• Zamorano's statistics at Internazionale - www.inter.it - Official web site of F.C. Internazionale Milano
• Iván Luis Zamorano - Detail of international matches and goals - rsssf.com (RSSSF).

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