Walter Pandiani

Walter Pandiani
Pandiani in the 2005 Birmingham City shirt
Personnel
Surname	Walter Gerardo Pandiani Urquiza
birthday	April 27, 1976
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
size	184 cm
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1996-1997	Club Atlético Progreso	22 (12)
1997-1998	Club Atlético Basáñez	0 0(0)
1998-2000	Club Atlético Peñarol	56 (20)
2000-2005	Deportivo La Coruña	86 (31)
2002-2003	→  RCD Mallorca  (loan)	33 (13)
2005-2006	Birmingham City	31 0(6)
2006-2007	Espanyol Barcelona	52 0(8)
2007-2011	CA Osasuna	92 (27)
2011–2012	Espanyol Barcelona	16 0(3)
2012-2013	Villarreal CF	17 0(2)
2013	Atlético Baleares	9 0(1)
2013-2014	Miramar Misiones	19 0(5)
2015-2016	FC Lausanne Sports	15 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2001-2004	Uruguay	4 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Pandiani , full name Walter Gerardo Pandiani Urquiza , (born April 27, 1976 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a former Uruguayan football player .

Player career

society

Striker Walter Pandiani began his career in the domestic Uruguayan league in 1996 and played for the professional clubs Club Atlético Progreso , Club Atlético Basáñez and Club Atlético Peñarol , where he was able to distinguish himself several times as a goalscorer. Then in 2000 he went to Europe. He moved to the Primera División for Deportivo La Coruña , where he played for five years from now on - with a break from 2002 to 2003 when he was on loan at RCD Mallorca for a short time . With La Coruña he played in the Champions League (11 goals in 37 games), was runner-up in 2002 and scored 31 goals in 86 league games with this club. When Pandiani fell out with his coach Javier Irureta , Depor loaned Pandiani to Birmingham City in January 2005 . There Pandiani hit the same against the big teams from Arsenal , Chelsea and Liverpool , which made him a crowd favorite and Birmingham prompting to take him for the season 2005/06 under contract. He signed a three-year contract with Birmingham which transferred five million euros to Depor for Pandiani. However, due to difficulties in adapting, he lost his marksmanship, so he returned to the Spanish league in January 2006 and moved to Espanyol Barcelona . The transfer fee was 1.5 million euros. With this club he immediately won the Spanish Cup in 2006 . The following year he played very successfully with Espanyol in the UEFA Cup. Espanyol reached the final and he became the top scorer of the competition . He was also the only Espanyol player to convert his penalty on penalties in the final against Sevilla FC . Walter Pandiani sat on the bench in the final, as was so often the case at the beginning, even though he had scored a three-pack against Real Madrid four days earlier . His eleven goals in 14 appearances in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup can only surpass three other players in the history of the UEFA Cup.

According to media reports, VfL Wolfsburg was interested in signing Walter Pandiani in summer 2007 , who was only second choice behind Raúl Tamudo and Luis García at Espanyol despite his respectable goal rate . Wolfsburg had already agreed with Espanyol on the transfer fee of two million euros. However, there was no agreement with the player. Pandiani moved to CA Osasuna in the summer , where he signed a three-year contract. He scored 27 goals in 92 games. In 2011, Pandiani returned to Espanyol Barcelona , scoring three goals in 16 league games.

For the 2012/13 season , Pandiani moved to Villarreal in the Segunda División . After he dissolved his contract after 17 completed league games (two goals) at Villarreal, it was announced on January 27, 2013 that Pandiani has joined the Spanish club Atlético Baleares, which is competing in Segunda B. He was accompanied by his son Nicolás (* 1993), who will play for the local youth team in the future. In the 2012/13 season, Pandiani was on the pitch nine times and scored one goal. Then Pandani returned to his home country and joined the first division promoted Miramar Misiones in the 2013/14 season . There he completed 19 league games by the end of the season, in which he scored five goals. In December 2014, Pandiani, now without a club, announced that he had not yet finished his active career and that he would start again if he found a suitable offer. It was only in July 2015 that he joined the Swiss second division club FC Lausanne-Sport . For this he played 15 times (one goal) in the Challenge League in the 2015/16 season . On June 16, 2016, he announced the end of his career via Twitter.

National team

Walter Pandiani's debut for the Uruguayan national soccer team took place on March 28, 2001 in the World Cup qualifier against Paraguay. Since then, he has played a friendly international game and two more international matches in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , in which he could not score a goal. The last use for the Celeste took place on June 1, 2004 in the qualifying game against the Peruvian selection.

titles and achievements

• Spanish runner-up : 2002
• Spanish Cup Winner : 2002, 2003, 2006
• Spanish Super Cup winner : 2002
• Entry into the UEFA Cup final: 2007
• UEFA Cup top scorer: 2007
• Uruguayan champion: 1999

Coaching

Since at least December 2014 he has been working as a trainer in the youth sector in El Masnou, together with the former soccer player Walter Caprile , among others . His sons Axel and Ezequiel are among the players on his teams.

Others

• His goal danger earned Pandiani the nickname "El Rifle" (The Rifle). Pandiani is also known for his head ball and nerve strength.
• Before Walter Pandiani started his football career, he was a street sweeper .

Web links

• Walter Pandiani in the database of weltfussball.de
• Walter Pandiani in the database of kicker.de
• Walter Pandiani in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Yahoo Sport player profile

Individual evidence

1. ↑ transfermarkt.de: Pandiani zu Birmingham ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (February 1, 2005)
2. ↑ kicker online: Birmingham signs Pandiani (August 5, 2005)
3. ↑ kicker online: Pandiani back in the Primera División (January 12, 2006)
4. ↑ uefa.com: Pandiani is top scorer (May 16, 2007)
5. ↑ kicker online: Agreement on Pandiani (May 25, 2006)
6. ↑ transfermarkt.de: Pandiani zu Osasuna ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (July 19, 2007)
7. ↑ Villarreal CF signs Walter Pandiani ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Los Pandiani jugarán en Atlético Baleares - Baja la pólvora (Spanish) on www.futbol.com.uy from January 27, 2013, accessed on January 27, 2013
9. ↑ El Baleares ficha a Pandiani ya su hijo para el equipo juvenil (Spanish) on futbol.as.com from January 27, 2013, accessed on January 27, 2013
10. ↑ Player profile at BDFutbol , accessed on November 9, 2013
11. ↑ Profile on fichajes.com , accessed on August 24, 2014
12. ↑ ^{a b} El fútbol base del Masnou, en manos del 'Rifle' Pandiani (Spanish) on sport.es of December 2, 2014, accessed on February 7, 2015
13. ^ Profile on soccerway.com , accessed August 7, 2016
14. ↑ blick.ch: The summer program of the Super League. July 17, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Se retiró Pandiani (Spanish) on ovaciondigital.com.uy of June 16, 2016, accessed on March 29, 2017
16. ↑ Uruguay - International Matches 2001-2005 on rsssf.com, accessed December 16, 2012