José Luis Chilavert
| José Luis Chilavert | ||
 José Luis Chilavert, 1985
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | José Luis Félix Chilavert | |
| birthday | July 27, 1965 | |
| place of birth | Luque , Paraguay | |
| size | 193 cm | |
| position | goal | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1980-1982 | Sportivo Luqueño | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1982-1984 | Guaraní Asunción | |
| 1984-1988 | CA San Lorenzo de Almagro | 122 (0) |
| 1988-1991 | Real Zaragoza | 79 (1) |
| 1991-2000 | Velez Sarsfield | 272 (24) |
| 2000-2001 | Racing Strasbourg | 52 (0) |
| 2001-2004 | CA Peñarol | 14 (4) |
| 2004-2005 | Velez Sarsfield | 6 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1989-2003 | Paraguay | 74 (8) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
José Luis Félix Chilavert (born July 27, 1965 in Luque ) is a former Paraguayan football goalkeeper . He has scored over 60 goals for clubs and the national team in his career, making him one of the most dangerous goalkeepers in the world. From 1989 to 2003 he played 74 times for the Paraguayan national soccer team and scored eight goals.
Life
At the young age of 15, José Luis Chilavert rose to become a goalkeeper at his home club Sportivo Luqueño in Paraguay . At the age of 18 he made his debut in the Paraguayan first division with Guaraní Asunción . After one season he left the team again and moved to Argentina to CA San Lorenzo de Almagro from Buenos Aires .
In 1988 Chilavert moved to Spain to Real Saragossa . He left the club in 1992 after quarrels with the coach and a place on the bench. For the 1992/93 season he moved back to Argentina for first division club Vélez Sársfield . In 1996, Chilavert was sentenced to a three-month suspended prison sentence and a 13-month suspension for knocking down a ball boy in 1994. He appealed, but the Argentine Supreme Court upheld the sentence in 1999. In November 2000, Chilavert moved to Europe for the second time at the start of the French second half of the season. There he played in the 2000/01 season ( second half ) and 2001/2002 for the French club Racing Strasbourg , with whom he was relegated to the French second division in 2002 at the bottom of the table. When the relegation in the league was already mathematically determined, Racing won the French cup final , in which Chilavert saved a penalty and converted the decisive one himself.
The high point of his career came in 1998 when he accompanied the selection of Paraguay, outsiders in the South America qualification group, as team captain for the 1998 World Cup in France. When Paraguay surprisingly survived the group stage there, increased attention fell on the team's captain, who had only conceded a single goal in three group games.
In the group game against Bulgaria , Chilavert failed with a free kick from 20 meters off the crossbar, almost becoming the first goalkeeper in football history to score a field goal at a World Cup. In the second round against the eventual champions France, he took his team, which was designated overwhelmed by many critics to be intemperate, almost single-handedly to the extension in which Laurent Blanc via golden goal for France met and decided the game.
During his career, he repeatedly clashed with the Argentine soccer player Martín Palermo ( Boca Juniors , Betis Sevilla ). The duels of the two stars usually had fierce arguments, tough fouls and red cards. Another example of his temperament was seen in the World Cup qualifier against Brazil : when Roberto Carlos tried to shake his hand, Chilavert spat at him. So he had to watch the first game of the 2002 World Cup from the stands. Paraguay were eliminated again in the round of 16, this time 0-1 against the German national team.
After Chilavert was voted “ World Goalkeeper of the Year ” for the last time in 1998 , he did not appear in the statistics of the ten world's best goalkeepers from 2001 and ended his career in 2002. The reason for this was that he was not nominated for the Paraguayan national team .
In 2004, the now 39-year-old Chilavert celebrated a surprising comeback at his home club Vélez Sársfield , with whom he had already celebrated major successes in the 1990s. However, he retired after his last game on November 11, 2004, in which he scored a goal, back from active football.
In July 2005 he was sentenced to six months probation in France for fraud against his former club Racing Strasbourg .
successes
International:
- World Cup : 1994
- Copa Libertadores : 1994
- Copa Interamericana : 1996
- Supercopa Sudamericana : 1996
- Recopa Sudamericana : 1997
National:
- Paraguayan champion: 1984
- Argentine champion: 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998
- French Cup : 2001
- Uruguayan champion: 2003
Awards:
- World goalkeeper : 1995, 1997, 1998
- South American Footballer of the Year : 1996
- Argentina's Footballer of the Year : 1996
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: A doorman as president
- ↑ apsnewsarchive.com: Suspended Sentence for Paraguay's Goalkeeper
- ^ Independent.ie: Bolton on Wembley way as Ipswich fail again
- ^ The Daily Star: Chilavert cleared of jail sentence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Chilavert, José Luis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chilavert, José Luis Félix (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Paraguayan soccer goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luque (Paraguay) |