José Luis Chilavert

Paraguayan football player
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José Luis Félix Chilavert González ( spanish pronunciation : [ xoseˈlwis tʃilaˈβeɾt ɣonˈθaleθ ] ; born 27 July 1965 ) is a paraguayan former professional football player who played as a goalkeeper for Sportivo Luqueño, Guaraní, San Lorenzo de Almagro, Real Zaragoza, Vélez Sarsfield, RC Strasbourg, Peñarol, and the Paraguayan national football team. Chilavert won 12 club titles, including the 1994 Copa Libertadores and the 1994 Intercontinental Cup, while playing for Vélez Sarsfield, and is a three-time IFFHS World ‘s Best Goalkeeper award winner. A fast and agile shot-stopper, known for his leadership, firm personality, and goalkeeping ability, he was regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the global in his prime ; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] outside of his goalkeeping placement, Chilavert was besides known for his outfield skills and ability as a release kick specialist, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and much took penalties. [ 4 ] He scored 67 goals in his professional career, many of them crucial, including eight in international matches. Four of his external goals were scored during Paraguay ‘s reservation for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Chilavert is the second-highest goalscoring goalkeeper of all time, surpassed only by brazilian custodian Rogerio Ceni, and is one of only two goalkeepers to score a hat-trick. [ 5 ] Chilavert was besides known for his eccentricity and his fiery temper, which brought him his carnival parcel of controversies ; most ill-famed among them was his being sent off in 1997 for brawling with colombian striker Faustino Asprilla. [ 6 ] He was nicknamed “ El Buldog “ ( “ The Bulldog ” ) [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and much wore a cartoon bulldog on his goalkeeper jersey. [ 9 ] Chilavert appeared for the Paraguay national football team 74 times from 1989 to 2003, scoring 8 goals and representing the team at five major tournaments. Chilavert appeared for Paraguay at two FIFA World Cup tournaments ( 1998 and 2002 ), where he served a captain on both occasions, and appeared in three Copa América tournaments ( 1991, 1993, and 1997 ). Chilavert was besides included in the 1998 FIFA World Cup Team of the Tournament .

early on years [edit ]

Chilavert grew up in Luque, Gran Asunción, [ 10 ] in a poor people family, and walked barefoot until the long time of seven. [ 11 ] His parents were Catalino Chilavert, a express bureaucrat, and Nicolasa González. At the old age of five, he had three siblings and two responsibilities : to milk the cows and to sell the milk in Ñu Guazú, a rural suburb of Luque. [ 12 ] One of his siblings, Rolando Chilavert, is besides a football player. [ citation needed ]

Club career [edit ]

Chilavert made his footballing debut with Sportivo Luqueño, where he was trained by Modesto Sandoval. In 1989, he played for the Paraguayan national team for the first time. [ citation needed ] He late moved to Spain, where he played for Real Zaragoza. In 1988, whilst Chilavert played for Real Zaragoza, he stated that “ the fans used to freak out ” when he would come out with the ball at his feet and “ belly laugh at me to get back in goal. I ‘ve never stopped to think about what others are saying. I precisely trust on my abilities. late on, I started to practice penalties and unblock kicks until they gave me the job for very ”. [ 11 ] Chilavert admitted to staying behind after training to practice 80 to 120 loose kicks, which in his opinion was how he got better. [ 3 ] [ 11 ] After his fourth dimension at Real Zaragoza, he moved to Argentina, where he played with Vélez Sársfield, helping them win the Primera División four times, vitamin a well as the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup, both in 1994. In 1999, he became the first goalkeeper known to score a hat-trick in the history of professional football, while playing for Vélez against Ferro Carril Oeste, scoring all three goals through penalties. [ 13 ] He besides scored a unblock recoil from behind the half-way line against River Plate. [ 14 ] In the 2001 Coupe de France Final, Chilavert scored the winning penalty in the gunfight victory over Amiens SC. [ 15 ]

International career [edit ]

Chilavert was voted World Goalkeeper of the Year by the IFFHS in 1995, 1997, and 1998. [ citation needed ] He was sent off aboard Faustino Asprilla in the qualifiers, in which Asprilla had to convince a gunman to not murder Chilavert afterwards. [ 16 ] Chilavert participated in the 1998 World Cup, where he became the first goalkeeper ever to take a direct barren kick in the World Cup finals, about scoring against Bulgaria. [ 17 ] With two clean sheets in the first round, he helped take Paraguay to the round of sixteen, where the team lost to France on a golden finish scored by Laurent Blanc. [ 18 ] Chilavert had made boasts about being the Cup ‘s best goalkeeper before the tournament, [ 19 ] [ dead link ] and after the tournament, FIFA indeed named Chilavert on the tournament All-Star Squad for his performances, aboard french goalkeeper Fabien Barthez. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Chilavert refused to take region in the 1999 Copa América, angering the paraguayan government, as he claimed fund should be used for education. [ 22 ] FIFA gave Chilavert a four-game suspension ( late reduced to three ) for spitting on Brazil ‘s Roberto Carlos at the conclusion of a 2002 FIFA World Cup reservation bet on. As a result, he watched Paraguay ‘s beginning game of the 2002 World Cup against South Africa from the stands. [ 19 ] Chilavert accused Roberto Carlos of racism and of making abhorrent gestures during the match. [ 14 ] Chilavert later claimed that Roberto Carlos came up to him after the match and said “ indian, we have won 2–0, you are a calamity ”. [ 23 ] He besides justified his action by saying he had been provoked by the Brazilians, who had called him the weakest connection of Paraguay before the match, and besides claimed the match was like a war and that Brazil should return kingdom to Paraguay lost in the War of the Triple Alliance in the nineteenth hundred. [ 23 ] Before the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Paraguay coach Cesare Maldini had faced criticism in Paraguay, but Chilavert defended Maldini for his experience. [ 24 ] He besides expressed great confidence in the ability of the Paraguayan team and downplayed his role on the team. [ 25 ] During the World Cup, Chilavert made an error against Spain on Morientes ‘s 2–1 goal as Paraguay lost 3–1. Chilavert about redeemed himself belated with a good loose kick try, but the photograph was saved by Casillas. [ 26 ] Before the match, Chilavert had vowed to score against Spain if Paraguay got a rid kick “ within range ”. [ 27 ] Before the end match in the group stage, Paraguay had to beat Slovenia and Spain had to beat South Africa, with a aggregate margin of three goals, for Paraguay to go through to the stopping point 16. The pit started badly for Paraguay, with Carlos Paredes sent off in the 21st infinitesimal, and continued with Milenko Ačimovič taking the lead for the Slovenians right before half-time after Chilavert failed to grip the ball and allowed it to slip between his leg into the goal. But Paraguay – inspired by substitutes Nelson Cuevas and Jorge Campos – recovered to defeat Slovenia 3–1, scoring three times in the last 25 minutes, and when Spain besides defeated South Africa 3–2, that victory meant that Paraguay was through to the following round of golf, where they would play Germany. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] In their second-round match against Germany, despite several saves from Chilavert, Paraguay lost 1–0, courtesy of a belated Oliver Neuville goal. [ 14 ] [ 30 ] In total, Chilavert earned 74 international caps for Paraguay and achieved a goalkeeper record of eight international goals. [ citation needed ] He retired from international football in 2003. [ 31 ]

Retirement and post-career [edit ]

Chilavert announced his retirement from football in December 2003, but decided to come out of retirement to return to Vélez. Chilavert had good won the Uruguayan league with Peñarol when he initially retired. He ultimately retired permanently in 2004, playing his end match, a farewell recommendation, on 11 November of that year – appropriately, he scored a goal. [ 32 ]

personal life and personality [edit ]

Chilavert is married to Marcela, an english lyric teacher he met in Buenos Aires while playing for San Lorenzo de Almagro. In 1998, they had a daughter named Anahí. [ 34 ]

Controversies [edit ]

Chilavert has allegedly thrown punches at Faustino Asprilla and Diego Maradona. [ 35 ] He was suspended for four matches for his affray with the former that occurred during a World Cup qualifier in 1997. [ 36 ] He once received a suspended prison prison term for attacking a physical therapist. [ 3 ] Chilavert was a node observer for Univision during the Copa América Centenario but was removed from the broadcasts after CONMEBOL President Alejandro Dominguez told the network to remove Chilavert. Chilavert had criticized Dominguez and called him corrupt on the air during Paraguay ‘s Group A match against Colombia. [ 37 ] [ 38 ]

leadership and morality [edit ]

Chilavert defended Cesare Maldini from the members of the Paraguayan press who criticized Maldini when he was appointed as Paraguay ‘s coach for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Chilavert stated that “ About 90 % of sports journalists in Paraguay are incompetent ” and welcomed criticism following Paraguay ‘s performance in Korea and Japan if they were to perform ailing. [ 39 ] During his career, Chilavert was being touted as Paraguay ‘s future president of the united states. [ 35 ] Chilavert was labelled “ a revolutionary the kind of which South America has not seen since the days of Che Guevara. ” [ 35 ] Off the field, Chilavert refused to participate at the 1999 Copa América, held in Paraguay, complaining about the incompetence of the local directors. Despite being formally honored by the government, he said that his state should invest money in education rather than football. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Chilavert besides routinely dismissed his state ‘s politicians as crooked, bungling, and responsible for keeping many Paraguayans in poverty. Chilavert claimed that when his play days were complete, he would stand for president of the united states and enforce his own brand of jurisprudence and order. [ 41 ] During 2008 and 2009, the former goalkeeper demonstrated his patronize for Paraguayan Olympic thrower Edgar Baumann against corruption in Paraguayan fun when the athlete had been robbed of his right to compete at the 2000 Sydney Olympics ascribable to a scandal from the Paraguayan Olympic Committee. Chilavert supported Baumann during the lawsuit which had been filed against the Olympic Committee with Chilavert stated that the then president of the united states of the Olympic Committee, Ramón Zubizarreta, should be expulsed for hurting athletes and not giving them benefits. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] In 2009, Chilavert, along with Claudio Escauriza, Tomás Orué and lawyer Alejandro Rubin, attended a Press Conference at Asunción Shopping Centre Shopping del Sol, in corroborate Edgar Baumann, who had received a favorable rule from the Paraguay Supreme Court in a case against the Paraguay Olympic Committee president of the united states Ramón Zubizarreta for robbing him the right of competing at the 2000 Summer Olympics and besides taking his sums of money that he earned from his eruditeness. [ 45 ]

career statistics [edit ]

clubhouse [edit ]

International [edit ]

Appearances and goals by national team and year[52]

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

Paraguay

1989
2
1

1990
0
0

1991
6
0

1992
0
0

1993
10
1

1994
0
0

1995
0
0

1996
7
1

1997
9
1

1998
10
0

1999
3
0

2000
13
2

2001
7
2

2002
5
0

2003
2
0

Total
74
8

Scores and results list Paraguay’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Chilavert goal.