Claudio pizarro

Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio (Bellavista, Callao, October 3, 1978) is a Peruvian former soccer player. He played as a center forward and currently works as an ambassador for Bayern Munich. He was an absolute international with the Peruvian team, of which he is the fifth all-time scorer. Widely considered the greatest exponent of Peruvian football in Europe and one of the best forwards in the world in the century XXI. He is the South American soccer player with the most goals and wins in the history of soccer in Germany. Recognized as a legend of Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen (being their all-time top scorer) and the Bundesliga. In addition, he is the second top foreign scorer in the Bundesliga in the century XXI.

He is, according to the expert portals in historical statistics of Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation and the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), the eighth top South American scorer in the history of European football with 282 goals and is the fifth Latin American with the most goals in European competitions (Champions League and Europa League), with forty-eight goals.

His professional debut occurred in 1996 with the Deportivo Pesquero club in the city of Chimbote. In 1998, he joined the ranks of Alianza Lima, where he won a Clausura Tournament, being highlighted as the best player of the season. In 1999, he was signed by Werder Bremen of the Bundesliga. Just one year later, he was chosen as the revelation player of the championship and was included in the ideal eleven of the 2000-2001 season. In 2001, he signed for Bayern Munich and in the following seasons he won one Intercontinental Cup, two Bundesligas, four German Cups, two German League Cups and one German Super Cup. In addition, he was the top scorer of the German Cup in the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 editions.

In 2007, he signed for Chelsea Football Club: he scored on his debut and finished runners-up in the Premier League at the end of the season. In 2009, he returned to Bremen, where he was champion of the 2009 German Cup and the 2009 German Super Cup, in addition to becoming the top scorer of the 2009-10 Europa League. In that season, he was considered the tenth best player in the world according to the FIFA Castrol Index. In 2012, he was hired again by Bayern Munich, with which he won a Champions League, a Club World Cup, a European Super Cup, a German Super Cup, three Bundesligas and two German Cups. He is thus the foreign footballer who has won the most titles in the entire history of Bayern Munich; with a total of eighteen titles. In mid-2015, he returned to Werder Bremen. In 2017, he was hired by Cologne, from which he left a year later to return to Bremen.

Pizarro is the Peruvian soccer player with the most goals scored and games played in German soccer and European soccer. He is also the Peruvian player with the most goals in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League with 24 goals in each tournament. He is the second foreign scorer and sixth all-time top scorer in the Bundesliga (197 goals).He is also the Latin American footballer with the most goals scored and titles won in the history of German football. He is the ninth all-time scorer in the German Cup (34 goals), top all-time scorer for Werder Bremen (153 goals), the foreign player with the most appearances for that club, tenth all-time top scorer for Bayern Munich (125 goals)., He is the foreigner with the most games played and with the most titles in the history of the Bundesliga and the German Cup. He is considered an idol of Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen, clubs in which he scored more than one hundred goals in each. In addition to being one of the footballers with the most seasons played in the history of the German league. He is also the oldest player to score a hat-trick (at age thirty-six) and a goal in the Bundesliga (at age forty). He is considered a living legend of the Bundesliga; being compared to other German football legends such as Franz Beckenbauer.

At the level of international competitions, he is the 4th Latin American top scorer in European cups (Champions League, UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League) with forty-eight goals. He is only behind Lionel Messi, Alfredo Di Stéfano and Sergio Agüero. In 2017, he was among the twenty top scorers in the history of UEFA competitions.He is the second Latin American top scorer in the history of the UEFA Europa League with 24 goals in 33 games.

With the Peruvian team he is the 5th historical scorer with twenty goals and the thirteenth with the most games (85). With the senior team he has a bronze medal won in the Copa América Chile 2015. He was a participant of the Copa América Peru 2004, the Copa América Venezuela 2007 and the Copa América Chile 2015.

Career

Beginnings

Claudio Pizarro was born on October 3, 1978 at 8:33 a.m. m. at the Naval Medical Center of the Constitutional Province of Callao in the family of naval officer Claudio Pizarro Dávila and his wife Patricia Bosio. Claudio was the first child in his family, he later had a sister Patricia and a brother named Diego, who also died. He became a professional soccer player. Claudio spent his childhood in the Santiago de Surco district, Lima. When Claudio was six years old, in a park near his house he kicked the ball for the first time, but already in his school years he showed great interest in soccer. According to family members, it happened that Claudio, upon arriving home from school, ate a quick lunch and ran out the window to play with his friends.

At the Manuel Clavero Muga Naval High School, young Claudio enrolled in the sports section, where, in addition to soccer, he dedicated himself to athletics and long jump. Claudio's father instilled in him a love for sports since childhood. Thanks to his father, little Pizarro participated in numerous championships of the Peruvian Children's Soccer Federation. Since he was little, Claudio has shown his temperament on the field, his desire to win and his ability to work with the ball. One of the first coaches of the Peruvian player Carlos Iraola already noticed his actions on the field. Claudio not only loved playing soccer, he collected albums, posters and magazines with his favorite teams and players. He waited every weekend to go to the stadium with his father for the Alianza Lima games. Claudio played soccer almost every Sunday.

At the age of 11, Claudio moved to the port of Paita in the north of the country, where, by order of the Peruvian Navy, his father was transferred to a new position. Already at that age, Claudio had outstanding athletic qualities and continued to combine football with other sports, because he believed that this would help him become a full-fledged player. He won regional and distance basketball competitions. Claudio also played tennis and squash. His life in Paita It was with several difficulties due to the lack of quality infrastructure of soccer fields, so Claudio had to learn to play on both grass and dirt surfaces. At that time, according to him, the most important thing in life for him was the very opportunity to play football.

At the age of 13, in 1991, Claudio entered the Cantolao Sports Academy, where he was able to reveal his potential. Under the direction of Juan José Claudio Tan he won the children's tournament, held by the International Football Association Infantil, after which the press talked about Pizarro as one of the most promising players in Peru.

Fishing Sports

In his beginnings in the minor divisions he was under the direction of Ronald Pitot, then in the 1996 season, at the age of 17, Claudio signed his first professional contract with Deportivo Pesquero, which was playing at that time in the First Division of Peru. On March 26, 1996, under the leadership of Roberto Chale, he debuted in the first division, in a match against Alianza Lima played at the Manuel Gómez Arellano stadium in the city of Chimbote, which ended with the defeat of Pesquero with a score of 0. -2. Two weeks later, Claudio scored two goals against the Atlético Torino club, which became the first of his career. In total in his first season, Claudio played 16 games and scored 3 goals. The following season, the young forward played 25 games and scored 8 goals. One of those goals was an excellent free kick against Alianza Lima, which caught the attention of the club's management. Before the start of the 1998 championship, Claudio was sold to the intimate club for 60 thousand euros.

Lima Alliance

In the first season in the new team, Claudio formed a scoring duo with the "Russian" Roberto Silva. That season he played 22 league games and scored 7 goals. Pizarro also debuted in the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Merconorte. In the Copa Merconorte, Claudio scored two goals against the Bolivian club The Strongest. On November 15, 1998, Claudio scored a ' hat-trick' against the club Alianza Atlético de Sullana. On June 13, 1999, Claudio scored another hat trick - this time against Deportivo Municipal. On August 8, Claudio scored five goals against Unión Minas. In 1999, Claudio scored 18 goals in 22 games for Alianza. Thanks to this, his club managed to take second place in the first half of the championship, and the German club Werder Bremen became interested in the striker. On August 13, Pizarro played his last game with Alianza, where his team lost to Sport Boys with the score of 1-2, where he scored the only goal for the grone team. The next day, the forward moved to & # 34; Bremen & # 34; for 1.7 million dollars.

When he couldn't be in the initial eleven, it was a big advantage for the rivals. That's why I said what I said when he left Alliance and went to Germany, that the team lost more than 50% of its offensive capacity and that it was now going to be much harder to campeonar.

Édgar Ospina, Technical Director of Alianza Lima.

Werder Bremen

Thanks to the good campaign carried out, Claudio was considered the revelation player of the season. From then on they called it 'The Bomber of the Andes'. On that team Pizarro wore the number 10 shirt. The 29 goals that Pizarro scored over the two seasons made him the star of Peruvian soccer, since in the 2000/2001 season he scored 19 goals in the Bundesliga and was in the third place in the scoring table. Bremen announced they would prevent Pizarro from moving to a bigger club, intensifying the dispute over the Peruvian striker's services. The media indicated that Real Madrid and F. C. Barcelona from Spain; Inter Milan, from Italy, and Borussia Dortmund, were in the race to hire Pizarro. This was the most speculated transfer in Peruvian football. Finally, after weeks of speculation, Pizarro was hired by Bayern Munich and was given the club's number 14 shirt, a historic number as it was long worn by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.

Bayern Munich

In 2001, he was hired by Bayern Munich. His debut could not have been more auspicious, since he scored his first goal with the Bavarian team just four minutes into the match against Schalke 04 for the second round of the 2001-2002 Bundesliga. During that season, he managed to score 15 goals in the Bundesliga and 4 in the UEFA Champions League. He also won the Intercontinental Cup played in Tokyo in December 2001 after Bayern Munich defeated Boca Juniors of Argentina 1-0. His first season with Bayern Munich he scored 20 goals.

In the 2002-2003 campaign, Pizarro was crowned with the Bundesliga title (the first in his career), which marked the best stretch of his time in German football. This championship recognized him three times as the figure of the match and since the second round began in February 2003, after recovering from an injury, he did not leave the title. He finished the championship as third scorer with 15 goals, six behind Giovane Élber and Thomas Christiansen.

Thus, at the end of the season Pizarro, also called "Pizagol", obtained the following titles from the hand of Bayern Munich: German national champion 2002/2003 in the Bundesliga of the First Division and in the Cup German, as well as qualifying for the 2003/2004 Champions League, the same one in which he would play for the third time. Claudio Pizarro emerged game by game as one of the scorers of the German tournament, in the 2005/2006 season he gave them the German Cup title, against Eintracht Frankfurt, by scoring a goal in the final off a corner, with which Bayern would achieve a consecutive double, something historic for German football.

Pizarro's contract expired at the end of the 2006-07 season, and negotiations for an extension were not progressing. Teams like Sevilla FC or Benfica were waiting to start a movement.

Meanwhile, the "Bomber of the Andes" He was champion of the 2004/05 season and, after 6 seasons in German football, he managed to score 100 goals in the Bundesliga, a figure that only three foreign players had achieved in Germany; Giovane Élber (133), Aílton (106) and Stéphane Chapuisat (106).

Pizarro later rejected a contract extension offered by Bayern president Franz Beckenbauer, demanding a salary increase that infuriated Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who was quoted as saying that "Anyone who wants to earn as much as Shevchenko, you better start playing like Shevchenko.'

On May 20, 2007, Bayern Munich announced that Pizarro would leave the club.

Chelsea

In mid-2007, he was hired by the Chelsea club in England at the express request of Portuguese coach José Mourinho. He had a good performance in his debut in the English Super Cup final at the legendary Wembley stadium, and in his debut in the Premier League, he scored his first goal for the English team. As the games went by, according to the specialized press, his performance dropped to the point of being harshly criticized by some of the London club's followers, all due to the tough competition he had for the position, with forwards of the stature of Didier. Drogba, Andriy Shevchenko, Salomon Kalou and later also with Nicolas Anelka, despite this he managed to alternate in the games and even score and enable, but this became more acute with the sudden departure of coach José Mourinho. Pizarro's relationship with the fans of that club was not the best. On April 17, 2008, the Goal.com portal considered Pizarro among the 10 worst signings of the season in the English FA Premier League, further accentuating his worst moment after breaking the historical record as less prolific striker at Chelsea with only two goals, this due to the little continuity that the new coach gave him, however in the few games that he alternated he did not clash, as in the case of the FA Cup and the Cup matches. the league. After the departure of Portuguese coach José Mourinho, Pizarro was almost unable to play given that the coach of Israeli origin Avram Grant put him very little, he was even replaced on the Champions League roster by Anelka, who in turn missed the decisive penalty in the Champions League final against Manchester United. It was the same coach who brought the French player Nicolas Anelka to his team, taking away Pizarro's ability to gain more playing minutes and try to consolidate himself in the team.

Return to Werder Bremen

In August 2008, he was loaned to Werder Bremen, returning after 7 years. His performance in the German team gave a positive result when he scored 17 goals in 26 games played. On matchday 15 of the Bundesliga, he scored a hat trick against Eintracht Frankfurt, being cheered by the Werder Bremen fans, in addition to being chosen as the Best Player of the Matchday of the German championship. On matchday 26, he scored a hat trick again against Hannover.

In the 2008-2009 season, Pizarro accumulated 28 goals in 46 games, of which 7 were scored at the continental level. He scored four of them against the great Milan teams: 2 against AC Milan and 2 against Inter, in the UEFA Champions League, while he did it against AC Milan in the UEFA Cup. The double against the latter helped Bremen qualify for the round of 16 and eliminate the Rossoneri team at San Siro. He then scored the decisive goal in the 3-3 draw against Udinese, which qualified Bremen for the semi-finals. Later He was vital in his team's 3-2 victory over Hamburg, scoring a goal, which earned Bremen a ticket to the UEFA Cup final, which they eventually lost to Shakhtar Donetsk in Istanbul.

He returned to Chelsea in June 2009, and although he played games for Chelsea in the World Football Challenge, he did not have the confidence of coach Carlo Ancelotti, so Pizarro returned to Werder Bremen on August 18 of the same year, but this time it was bought.

In the 2009-2010 season, he stood out clearly in the Bundesliga, being considered 4 times in the ideal eleven and scoring 16 goals in 26 games. On the other hand, after scoring a hat trick against FC Twente, he became the top scorer in the 2009-10 UEFA Europa League, with 9 goals scored in just 8 games, surpassing on average the Paraguayan Óscar Cardozo, who also scored 9 goals but in 12 games played, thus becoming the first Peruvian soccer player to obtain this award.

On March 6, 2011, he scored his 138th goal in German football, in Werder Bremen's victory against Freiburg; thus surpassing the famous German scorer Uwe Seeler in the ranking of all-time Bundesliga scorers.

On May 15, 2012, Klaus Allofs, sporting director of Werder Bremen, announced that the forward will not continue at the club next season due to the player's own decision by not renewing his contract.

Return to Bayern Munich

On May 24, 2012, Pizarro traveled to Germany, asking permission from Peruvian national team coach Sergio Markarián, to settle some personal matters. The next day, his father announced that Claudio had decided to sign for Bayern Munich to the ESPN network. Subsequently, his hiring was confirmed on the club's official website, making him Bayern's fourth signing for the 2012/2013 season. On March 30, 2013, in a match against Hamburg S.V., Pizarro managed to score four goals and two assists for a huge 9-2 win in favor of the Munich team.

On April 6, 2013, Claudio Pizarro once again became champion in the Bundesliga. Bayern Munich defeated Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 and mathematically achieved its 23rd title of the 2013 German tournament. The Bavarians went ahead on matchday 28 despite the victory of Borussia Dortmund. With six games remaining, Bayern were 20 points ahead of Borussia Dortmund, who were second, winners of the last two editions, and who beat FC Augsburg 4-2. Claudio Pizarro and Carlos Zambrano met again. Before the start of the match, he greeted his captain of the Peruvian team. They both gave each other a big hug and left their friendship for ninety minutes. An assist from the right by captain Philipp Lahm was finished off by Bastian Schweinsteiger to give his team the title in the 52nd minute, thus Pizarro managed to win his fourth Bundesliga with Bayern Munich.

On May 25, 2013, Pizarro became champion of the 2012-13 Champions League with Bayern Munich, who beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the final with a goal in the 89th minute. The 'Bombardero' is the second Peruvian to win the Champions League (Former European Cup) along with Víctor Benítez. Bayern Munich defeated Borussia Dortmund in the fourth final between teams from the same country. The stage was the legendary Wembley Stadium with goals from Mario Mandžukić and Arjen Robben in the last minutes as Bayern Munich won its 5th Champions League. Claudio Pizarro was one of the happiest after becoming champion of the Champions League. The Peruvian arrived at Bayern Munich with that mission and he fulfilled it. El Bombardero decided to return to Bayern Munich this season for one reason only: to become champion of the Bundesliga, German Cup and Champions League. The 'Bomber' has already won everything playing for German clubs. His first title was the 2001 Intercontinental Cup. The dreamed triplet. He already achieved the first a few weeks ago and on May 25 he was awarded the 'Orejona', after the Bavarians beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the final.

In the 2014/2015 season, he played only 17 games and scored one goal in the German Cup.

Third cycle at Werder Bremen

On September 7, 2015, it was confirmed that Pizarro would return to Werder Bremen, unleashing madness among the German fans who were waiting for him in crowds at the airport. With the lizards he played again on the 13th of September on the visit to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, entering in the 82nd minute; replacing Ulisses García. Pizarro was vital for his team by scoring an assist in the 91st minute. for Anthony Ujah to score 1-2, Bremen continued to be motivated with the entry of Claudio and ended up winning the game 1-3, the visiting fans cheered the Bomber of the Andes throughout the Rhein-Neckar -Sand. His first goal of the season since his return to Werder Bremen was in November 2015 in a league match against Augsburg.

Cologne

Cologne signs the 39-year-old veteran forward for the 2017-18 season, who had not had a team since leaving Werder Bremen last season, using the number 39 on his shirt and signing a contract until the end of the season. Due to his age and his lack of regularity, Pizarro was never able to become a starter on the team, he was only used as a replacement for the first base players. So much so that his first and only goal for Cologne was scored on March 4, 2018 against Stuttgart (a match where he started as a starter) after almost a year without scoring goals, reaching a total of 192 goals in 430 games and almost 20 years in the Bundesliga, becoming the top foreign scorer in the history of German football. Despite this, the team finished last in the standings and was relegated to the Second Division.

Fourth cycle at Werder Bremen

On July 29, 2018, his return to Werder Bremen was made official, being his fourth stage at the club, signing for one season and thus finishing his sports career in the same club with which he debuted in the 1. Bundesliga.

He retired on July 6, 2020 in the promotion against Heidenheim in which his team, Werder Bremen, achieved permanence.

National team

In the Peruvian soccer team, Pizarro debuted on February 10, 1999 in a friendly match with the Ecuadorian team, which ended with the defeat of the Peruvians with a score of 1-2. A week later, the Peruvians again played a match with the Ecuadorians, and in this match Claudio opened the scoring with his goals for the national team. That same year, the national team's coach, Juan Carlos Oblitas, included Pizarro in the list of players of the selection to play in the 1999 Copa América, held in Paraguay. Peru left the group stage in second place, beating Japan and Bolivia and losing only to the hosts of the tournament. In the quarterfinals they lost to the Mexican team, who tied the score in regulation time only in the 87th minute of the match. and are eliminated by penalties. Claudio Pizarro participated in all 4 games, but could not score goals.

The following year, Pizarro was called up to the Peruvian under-20 soccer team for the qualifying tournament for the Sydney Olympic Games. Claudio played in all 4 games, in which he scored 5 goals, but this did not help his team, which was left with only 3.er place in his group and failed to advance.

That same year the qualification tournament for the 2002 World Cup began. The team failed to qualify for the World Cup, where they took eighth place. Claudio played 14 games and scored only 2 goals. On November 8, 2001, in the 17th qualifying match against Argentina, he received a red card for hitting Javier Zanetti in the face with his elbow.

In 2004, Pizarro went to his second Copa América in his country, Peru as captain of the national team. In the first match with the Bolivians, which ended in a 2-2 draw, Claudio scored the first goal with his team's shirt from the penalty spot. In the following match against Venezuela, Claudio received two yellow cards and was sent off in the 87th minute of the match. According to the post-match examination, Pizarro received a skull fracture in the same match after one of the game's collisions.. Pizarro immediately flew to Germany for surgery and did not play any more games in that tournament. Without the captain, the Peruvians reached the quarterfinals, in which they lost to Argentina by a minimal difference.

The next qualifying round for the World Cup was also not successful for the Peruvians, who took ninth place among all teams. Pizarro participated in 11 games and scored only one goal. In 2006, Pizarro played only 2 matches for the Peruvian national team, then refused to play for the national team as he said that he would only return after the departure of Franco Navarro. In July 2007, Navarro was fired and replaced by Julio Cesar Uribe.

With a new coach, Pizarro immediately returned to the national team and played in his third Copa América, held in Venezuela. The Peruvian team finished in second place in the group stage, defeating the Uruguayan team, losing to the hosts of the tournament and tying with the Bolivian team with a score of 2-2, both of Peru's goals were scored by Pizarro. In the quarterfinals, the Peruvians fell against Argentina, who defeated them with a score of 0-4.

After the Copa América. Pizarro participated in the first four matches of the Conmebol Qualification for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, but a scandal soon broke out. After the match with Brazil, held on November 18, 2007, Pizarro, along with other players from the Peruvian national team, including Santiago Acasiete, Jefferson Farfan and Andrés Mendoza, held a party in which they drank alcohol in the company of prostitutes. The Peruvian Football Federation for violation of the sports regime, suspended the four players from playing for the national team for a year and a half, in addition to imposing a fine of 10 thousand pounds on each of them. A few days later, Pizarro expressed his desire to challenge the federation's decision:

I am very surprised by the sanctions that applied to me and my partners. I can give faith of myself: I did not break the regime and, in due course, was at the base of the national selection. There were rumors that I even intended to leave the country team after what happened, but I can't imagine where these speculations come from. The selection of Peru is my homeland, my dream, and I intend to defend your honor and benefit you with marked goals

Subsequently, all players, except Andrés Mendoza, had their suspension reduced from eighteen months to three.

In 2008, Pizarro again began to speak to the federation leadership that he would not play for the Peruvian national team until coach José Del Solar retired:

I'm outraged by everything that happens today with the selection. We are in very bad conditions, the partners have no interaction and the federation has not even organized friendly parties in anticipation of important meetings with Argentina and Venezuela.

In 2009, Claudio Pizarro filed a lawsuit against the Peruvian Football Federation before the Court of Arbitration for Sports (TAS) in which he demonstrated his innocence in this case; Even so, he was deprived of playing the rest of the World Cup qualifiers.

With the arrival of Uruguayan coach Sergio Markarián, Claudio Pizarro returned to the Blanquirroja as captain. He played the preparation friendlies and although he could not play in the 2011 Copa América due to injury, he returned for the qualifiers. In the qualifiers for Brazil 2014, he scored a goal against Chile in Santiago on October 11, 2011 and scored the winning goal against Ecuador, in Lima, on June 7, 2013. He opened the scoring against Argentina, in Buenos Aires, on October 11, 2013, although that goal did not prevent the final defeat of his squad (1-3). He returned to the national team again against Guatemala on October 14 where Peru won 1-0 with a goal from Carlos Ascues.

With the arrival of Ricardo Gareca to the bench of the Inca team, Pizarro was called up to play in the 2015 Copa América, scoring the winning goal (1-0) over Venezuela to advance to the group stage, this being his last goal with the national team. His last match was on March 29, 2016 against Uruguay in a 1-0 2018 World Cup Qualifying loss.

Participations in Copa América

Cup	Headquarters	Outcome	Parties	Goles	Prom.
Copa America 1999	Paraguay Paraguay	Final rooms	4	0	0.00
Copa América 2004	Peru Peru	Final rooms	2	1	0.50
Copa América 2007	Venezuela Venezuela	Final rooms	4	2	0.50
Copa America 2015	ChileChile	Third place	4	1	0.25
Total			14	4	0.29

Participations in World Cup Qualifiers

Elimination	Headquarters	Selection	Outcome	Parties	Goles	Assist.
South American Eliminators 2002	South America	Peru	8.o (He didn't qualify.)	13	2	0
South American elimination 2006			9.o (He didn't qualify.)	11	1	3
South American Eliminators 2010			10.o (He didn't qualify.)	4	0	0
South American Eliminators 2014			7.oHe didn't qualify.)	13	3	1
South American Eliminators 2018			5.o (Classified)	4	0	0
Total				45	6	4

International goals

International goals

#	Date	City	Oponente	Outcome	Outcome	Competition
1.	17-02-1999	Guayaquil	ECUEcuador	1-2	Victoria	Friendly
2.	17-06-1999	Manizales	COLColombia	3-3	Empty	Friendly
3.	23-06-1999	Lima	VENVenezuela	3-0	Victoria	Friendly
4.	27-03-2001	Lima	CHIChile	3-1	Victoria	Global elimination 2002
5.	02-06-2001	Lima	ECUEcuador	1-2	Defeat	Global elimination 2002
6.	02-04-2003	Lima	CHIChile	3-0	Victoria	Friendly
7.	02-04-2003	Lima	CHIChile	3-0	Victoria	Friendly
8.	20-08-2003	East Rutherford	MEXMexico	3-1	Victoria	Friendly
9.	01-06-2004	Montevideo	URUUruguay	1-3	Victoria	Global elimination 2006
10.	06-07-2004	Lima	BOLBolivia	2-2	Empty	Copa América 2004
11.	07-10-2006	Viña del Mar	CHIChile	3-2	Defeat	Friendly
12.	03-07-2007	Merida	BOLBolivia	2-2	Empty	Copa América 2007
13.	03-07-2007	Merida	BOLBolivia	2-2	Empty	Copa América 2007
14.	02-09-2011	Lima	BOLBolivia	2-2	Empty	Friendly
15.	11-10-2011	Santiago	CHIChile	4-2	Defeat	World Cup 2014
16.	29-02-2012	Tunisia	TUNTunisia	1-1	Empty	Friendly
17.	06-02-2013	Port of Spain	TRITrinidad and Tobago	0-2	Victoria	Friendly
18.	07-06-2013	Lima	ECUEcuador	1-0	Victoria	World Cup 2014
19.	11-10-2013	Buenos Aires	ARGArgentina	3-1	Defeat	World Cup 2014
20.	18-06-2015	Valparaiso	VENVenezuela	1-0	Victoria	Copa America 2015

Statistics

Clubs

Club	Div.	Season	League			Cups			International Cups			Total			Average score
			Part.	Goles	Assist.	Part.	Goles	Assist.	Part.	Goles	Assist.	Part.	Goles	Assist.
Sportsman Pesquero Peru Peru
	1. a	1996	17	5	3	-			-			17	5	3	0.21
		1997	23	8	2	-			-			23	8	2	0.32
	Total club		30	13	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	30	13	5	0.27
Alliance Lima Peru Peru
	1. a	1998	26	11	5	-			-...			26	11	5	0.43
		1999	28	17	3	-			-			28	17	3	0.61
	Total club		54	28	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	54	28	8	0.52
Werder Bremen GermanyGermany
	1. a	1999-00	27	11	5	3	1	1	-...			30	12	6	0.42
		2000-01	34	20	6	1	0	0	5	2	2	40	22	8	0.54
	Total 1st stage		61	31	11	4	1	1	5	2	2	70	34	14	0.48
Bayern Munich GermanyGermany
	1. a	2001-02	27	12	3	5	2	1	7	3	2	38	17	6	0.50
		2002-03	32	19	5	7	2	2	10	4	1	49	25	8	0.51
		2003-04	34	21	2	4	2	0	8	3	2	46	26	4	0.56
		2004-05	32	18	2	6	2	2	8	3	1	46	23	9	0.50
		2005-06	33	19	3	6	3	1	9	3	0	48	25	4	0.53
		2006-07	23	4	2	2	0	0	7	1	2	32	5	4	0.18
	Total 1st stage		181	93	17	30	11	6	53	17	8	259	121	35	0.48
Chelsea EnglandEngland
	1. a	2007-08	23	5	2	6	1	2	3	0	0	32	6	4	0.27
	Total club		23	5	2	6	1	2	3	0	0	32	6	4	0.27
Werder Bremen GermanyGermany
	1. a	2008-09	32	19	5	2	1	1	-...			34	20	6	0.71
		2009-10	32	28	6	6	4	2	-...			38	32	8	0.91
		2010-11	30	21	4	5	2	2	7	4	0	42	27	6	0.69
		2011-12	32	14	5	2	0	0	-			34	14	5	0.41
	Total 2.a phase		126	82	20	15	7	5	7	4	0	148	93	25	0.73
Bayern Munich GermanyGermany
	1. a
		2012-13	20	8	6	2	3	2	5	2	0	28	13	8	0.48
		2013-14	23	10	3	3	1	1	6	0	0	32	11	4	0.39
		2014-15	15	2	2	3	1	0	3	0	0	21	3	2	0.08
	Total 2.a phase		58	20	11	8	5	3	14	2	0	81	27	14	0.32
	Total club		224	87	36	36	19	9	67	19	8	340	148	49	0.42
Werder Bremen GermanyGermany	1. a
		2015-16	28	14	3	4	2	2	-			32	16	5	0.50
		2016-17	15	3	1	-			-			15	3	1	0.12
	Total 3rd phase		43	17	4	4	2	2	0	0	0	47	19	6	0.41
Köln GermanyGermany
	1. a	2017-18	18	3	2	-			-			18	3	2	0.17
	Total club		18	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	3	2	0.17
Werder Bremen GermanyGermany	1. a
		2018-19	28	6	2	4	2	0	-			32	8	2	0.27
		2019-20	17	4	2	3	2	0	-			20	6	2	0.13
	Total 4.a		44	5	2	5	4	0	0	0	0	49	14	4	0.24
	Total club		250	109	34	26	15	6	44	29	5	314	160	49	0.43
Total in your career			111	246	81	71	34	16	124	50	12	809	320	128	0.41
(1) Includes data from the Community Shield / Cup of the League of England / FA Cup (2007-08); German League Cup / Super Cup (2002-13); German Cup (1999-19). (2) It includes data from the Copa Libertadores / Copa Merconorte (1998); Copa de la UEFA/Liga Europa de la UEFA (1999- 10); Supercopa de Europa / Copa Intercontinental / Copa Mundial de Clubes de la FIFA (2001-13); UEFA Champions League (2001-14). (3) Half of goals per encounter. It does not include goals in friendly matches.

Selections

Selection	Year	Friendly			South America(1)			World			Total			Media Shotgun
		Part.	Goles	Assist.	Part.	Goles	Assist.	Part.	Goles	Assist.	Part.	Goles	Assist.
Sub-17 Peru Peru	1995	-			3	0	2	-			3	0	2	0.00
	Total	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	2	0.00
Sub-20 Peru Peru	1997	-			3	0	1	-			3	0	1	0.00
	Total	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	0.00
Olympics Peru Peru	2000	-			4	5	2	-			4	5	2	1.25
	Total	0	0	0	4	5	2	0	0	0	4	5	2	1.25
Adult Peru Peru	1999	7	3	2	4	0	0	-			11	3	2	0.27
	2000	-			8	0	0	-			8	0	0	0.00
	2001	-			6	2	0	-			6	2	0	0.33
	2002	-			-			-			0	0	0	0.00
	2003	4	3	0	4	0	1	-			8	3	1	0.38
	2004	1	0	0	5	2	0	-			6	2	0	0.33
	2005	-			4	0	2	-			4	0	2	0.00
	2006	2	1	1	-			-			2	1	1	0.50
	2007	2	0	0	8	2	0	-			10	2	0	0.20
	2008	-			-			-			0	0	0	0
	2009	-			-			-			0	0	0	0
	2010	-			-			-			0	0	0	0
	2011	3	1	0	3	1	1	-			6	2	1	0.33
	2012	2	1	0	3	0	0	-			5	1	0	0.20
	2013	2	1	0	7	2	0	-			9	3	0	0.33
	2014	1	0	0	-			-			1	0	0	0.00
	2015	1	0	0	6	1	0	-			7	1	0	0.14
	2016	-			2	0	0	-			2	0	0	0.00
	Total	25	10	3	60	10	4	0	0	0	85	20	7	0.24
Total career		25	10	3	70	15	9	0	0	0	95	25	12	0.26
(1) Includes Preolympic Sub-23 (2000) matches; South American Cup / South American Classifiers (1999-16).

Statistical summary

Hat-tricks

Matches that scored three or more goals
N.o	Date	Stadium	Party	Goles	Outcome	Competition
1	14 November 1998	Alejandro Villanueva, Lima	Alliance Lima - Athletic Alliance		4 - 2	Decentralized Championship 1998
2	13 June 1999		Alliance Lima - Municipal Sports		3 - 0	Decentralized Championship 1999
3	8 August 1999		Alliance Lima - Union Mines		7 - 1
4	19 September 1999	Volkswagen-Arena, Wolfsburg	VfL Wolfsburg - Werder Bremen		2 - 7	1. Bundesliga 1999-00
5	22 January 2000	Arnaldo Busatto, Cascavel	Peru Olympic - Paraguay Olympic		4 - 2	Pre-Olympic Sub-23 2000
6	9 November 2000	Crystal Arena, Genk	KRC Genk - Werder Bremen		2 - 5	UEFA Cup 2000-01
7	2 March 2005	Dreisamstadion, Freiburg	SC Fribourg - Bayern de Munich		0 - 7	German Cup 2004-05
8	29 November 2008	Weserstadion, Bremen	Werder Bremen - Eintracht Frankfurt		5 - 0	1. Bundesliga 2008-09
9	5 April 2009		Werder Bremen - Hanover 96		4 - 1
10	25 February 2010		Werder Bremen - FC Twente		4 - 1	UEFA European League 2009-10
11	5 November 2011		Werder Bremen - 1. FC Köln		3 - 2	1. Bundesliga 2011-12
12	7 November 2012	Allianz Arena, Munich	Bayern de Munich - Lille.		6 - 1	UEFA Champions League 2012-13
13	30 March 2013		Bayern de Munich - Hamburg SV		9 - 2	1. Bundesliga 2012-13
14	2 March 2016	BayArena, Leverkusen	Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Werder Bremen		1 - 4	1. Bundesliga 2015-16

Palmarés

Short championships

Title	Club	Country	Year
Closing Tour	Alliance Lima	Peru Peru	1999

National Championships

Title	Club	Country	Year
German Cup	Bayern de Munich	GermanyGermany	2002-03
Bundesliga			2003-04
Bundesliga			2004-05
League Cup			2004
German Cup			2004.05
Bundesliga			2005-06
German Cup			2005-06
League Cup			2007
German Cup	Werder Bremen	GermanyGermany	2008-09
Supercopa de Germany			2009
Supercopa de Germany	Bayern de Munich	GermanyGermany	2012
Bundesliga			2012-13
German Cup			2012-13
Bundesliga			2013-14
German Cup			2013-14
Bundesliga			2014-15

International championships

Title	Club	Country	Year
Intercontinental Cup	Bayern de Munich	JapanJapan	2001
UEFA Champions League		EnglandEngland	2013
European Super Cup		Czech RepublicCzech Republic	2013
Club World Cup		MoroccoMorocco	2013

Individual distinctions

Records

Records in the Bundesliga and the German Cup

• It's the second greatest Bundesliga scorer in the century.XXI.
• It is the second highest foreign scorer in the history of the Bundesliga with 197 goals in 478 matches.
• He's the greatest Latin scorer in the history of the Bundesliga.
• He is the first player to score 2 goals in the history of the Bundesliga after he is 40 years old.
• He is considered the most productive player of the Bundesliga in recent years.
• He is the foreign player with more games played in the history of the Bundesliga.
• He noted the second best Latin American goal in the history of the Bundesliga.
• He reached 235 wins at the Bundesliga matching Franz Beckenbauer's record.
• He has been marking goals in the Bundesliga for 21 years (1999-2019).
• It's the sixth highest scorer in the Bundesliga story.
• He's the oldest soccer player to score a triplet in the history of the Bundesliga.
• He is the foreign soccer player with the most contested matches in the history of the German Cup.
• It is the ninth highest scorer in the history of the German Cup when scored 34 goals.
• It is the third longest footballer to turn a goal into the history of the German Cup.
• He is the foreign player who most times won the German Cup (six).
• He is the player who most played the final of the German Cup (eight).
• It is the fourth largest foreign scorer of the Werder Bremen in the German Cup.
• He's the oldest player to score a goal at the Bundesliga.

Records at Bayern Munich

• It is the tenth highest scorer in the history of the Bayern in Munich.
• He's at Top 10 of Munich's Bayern's top 10 in the Bundesliga, at position 9.
• He is the second-largest foreigner in the Bayern of Munich (18).

Records at Werder Bremen

• It is the greatest historical scorer of the Werder Bremen with 153 goals.
• He is the foreign soccer player with more games played in the history of the Werder Bremen.
• He is the third foreign footballer of the Werder Bremen with the most contested matches in the history of the German Cup.

Records in Peruvian football and in UEFA competitions

• It is the fifth highest scorer in the history of the Peruvian team with 20 goals.
• It is the highest Peruvian scorer in Europe when scored 253 goals in official League tournaments, National Cups and International Cups, surpassing Juan Seminario and Teófilo Cubillas.
• It is one of the six South American players who have won both the Intercontinental Cup and the Club World Cup.
• He is the first Peruvian footballer in history to win the European Super Cup.
• Claudio Pizarro and Roberto Soldado are the only players to score a triplet in Champions League and Europa League.
• It is the 4th highest Latin American scorer in European Cups (Champions League, UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League) with 48 goals, standing only behind Lionel Messi, Alfredo Di Stéfano and Sergio Agüero.
• He is the Peruvian soccer player with more assistance in Europe.

Extra-football aspects

Scandals

On August 22, 2000, Werder Bremen fined him almost 5 thousand euros for going to a nightclub when he had the flu.

On December 7, 2007, along with the players Santiago Acasiete, Jefferson Farfán and Andrés Mendoza, he was suspended indefinitely from the Peruvian soccer team for his alleged participation in the acts of indiscipline that occurred after the draw against Brazil. in Lima, for the 2010 Soccer World Cup qualifiers. On March 27, 2008, the sanction imposed was announced to the press: suspension from the Peruvian national team for 18 months and the payment of a fine of 20,000 US dollars. Subsequently, on July 3, the FPF Justice Commission reduced the fine to $10,000 and the sanction to 3 months, which ended on July 6, 2008.

However, the Court of Arbitration for Sports (TAS) gave rise to the appeal presented by the attacker Claudio Pizarro with respect to the accusation that weighed on the forward for the events that occurred on November 18, 2007, at the concentration of the Los Incas Golf Hotel. The lawyer of the Peruvian Soccer Players Association, Jhonny Baldovino, reported that the Court declared Pizarro innocent. "The CAS ruled in favor of Pizarro and declared him innocent in the Golf case."

In February 2009, he was involved along with FIFA agent Carlos Delgado in the 'Image case' scandal, which denounces alleged irregularities in the sale of players, and the influence of Claudio Pizarro in the call of some players to the national team because he is a shareholder in the company Image, which represents several footballers at the national and international level.

Horse riding

Claudio Pizarro is also a great fan of horse riding and even has his own horses at the Monterrico Racecourse.