Márcio Amoroso

Márcio Amoroso
Personnel
Surname	Márcio Amoroso dos Santos
birthday	5th July 1974
place of birth	Brasília ,  Brazil
size	179 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1992	Guarani FC	39 (28)
1992-1993	→  Verdy Kawasaki  (loan)	19 (16)
1996	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	16 0(6)
1996-1999	Udinese Calcio	86 (39)
1999-2001	AC Parma	39 (11)
2001-2004	Borussia Dortmund	59 (28)
2004-2005	Málaga CF	29 0(5)
2005-2006	Sao Paulo FC	26 (18)
2006	AC Milan	4 0(1)
2006	Corinthians São Paulo	15 0(3)
2007	Gremio Porto Alegre	6 0(0)
2008	Aris Thessaloniki	9 0(1)
2009	Guarani FC	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1995-2003	Brazil	19 (10)
1 Only league games are given.

Márcio Amoroso dos Santos (born July 5, 1974 in Brasília ) is a former Brazilian football player . In the late 1990s, he was considered one of the best strikers in the world. Amoroso , as he is called for short, also has Italian citizenship and therefore did not fall under the quota of foreigners when he was involved in European clubs .

Career

Brazil, Japan and Italy

After his previous positions at his hometown club Guarani FC and the Japanese first division club Verdy Kawasaki ( J. League ), where he was the top scorer in each case, he played in 1996 for the Brazilian club Flamengo Rio de Janeiro , where he played the so-called storm of the century with Sávio , Bebeto and Romario made.

In the same year moved to the Italian Serie A to Udinese Calcio as a strike partner of Oliver Bierhoff . In 1999 he won the Italian goalscorer's trophy and signed, courted by top European clubs such as AC Milan , Inter Milan , AS Roma , Lazio , Fiorentina , Arsenal London , Atlético Madrid and Borussia Dortmund , with the three-time European Cup winner AC Parma . He later had differences with his coaches there and left the club in 2001.

Borussia Dortmund

Amoroso moved from the Italian first division club to Borussia Dortmund 's Bundesliga team in 2001 for a transfer fee of the equivalent of EUR 25.5 million . He was German champion with Borussia Dortmund in the 2001/02 season and top scorer in the Bundesliga in the same year , led the club to the UEFA Cup final (he scored a hat trick in the 4-0 victory in the semi-final first leg against AC Milan ) and returned a little later to the Brazilian national team.

At the beginning of the 2002/03 season Amoroso injured his Achilles tendon and did not return to the squad until the end of October. Dortmund's coach Matthias Sammer only used him sporadically. Amoroso did not play for more than 90 minutes throughout the season, but scored important goals for BVB. Since his performances were at times unsteady and Amoroso's too playful attitude with the ball did not agree with Sammers philosophy of hard work on the court, the differences between the two increased.

At the beginning of the 2003/04 season , Dortmund's board of directors put public pressure on coach Sammer to bet on the Brazilian striker and place him in the team. In the first four Bundesliga games for BVB Amoroso scored four goals until he tore the inner ligament partially on September 11, 2003. Because Amoroso wanted to cure his injury in his home country, there were public disagreements with the club management of Borussia Dortmund. Finally, the goalscorer's contract with the club was terminated on April 1, 2004.

Spain, Brazil, Italy and Greece

He then went to Málaga FC for one season . He then returned to Brazil for São Paulo FC , where he signed a one-year contract valid until June 2006. In 2005 he won the Copa Libertadores with the club , to which he also contributed a goal in the final.

After winning the FIFA Club World Cup in 2005 , he moved to AC Milan in January 2006 , where he replaced Christian Vieri . He couldn't really assert himself in Milan and couldn't get beyond reservist status (four games, one goal). He then moved back to Brazil after six months and signed with Corinthians São Paulo . From May 2007 Amoroso was under contract with the Brazilian Série-A club Gremio Porto Alegre, which was dissolved again in August.

In January 2008 he signed a contract with Aris Thessaloniki . In January 2009 Amoroso moved back to Brazil in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B to Guarani Futebol Clube.

titles and achievements

society

• German champion in 2002 with Borussia Dortmund
• UEFA Cup Final 2002 with Borussia Dortmund
• 2005 Copa Libertadores winner with São Paulo FC
• Winner of the Fifa Club World Cup 2005 with São Paulo FC

player

• Top scorer in the Japan Soccer League (Japan): 1993
• Campeonato Brasileiro Série A top scorer : 1994
• Top scorer in Serie A (Italy): 1999
• Top scorer in the Bundesliga (Germany): 2002

Others

• Footballer of the Year (Brazil) : 1994
• Team of the year in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol : 1994

Ronaldo (TW)

Pavão    -    Jorge Luís    -    Cléber    -    Roberto Carlos

Zé Elias    -    Marcelinho Carioca    -    Zinho

Rivaldo    -    Márcio Amoroso    -    Luizão

Web links

• Márcio Amoroso in the database of weltfussball.de
• Márcio Amoroso in the database of footballdata.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matthias Arnhold: Márcio Amoroso dos Santos - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, May 28, 2014, accessed July 25, 2014 .