José Paolo Guerrero

Paolo Guerrero

Personal information
Full name	José Paolo Guerrero Gonzales
Date of birth	1 January 1984 (1984-01-01)
Place of birth	Lima, Peru
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Hamburger SV
Number	9
Youth career
1992–2002	Alianza Lima
2002–2003	Bayern Munich
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002–2004	Bayern Munich II	66	(45)
2004–2006	Bayern Munich	27	(10)
2006–	Hamburger SV	125	(35)
National team‡
2004–	Peru	35	(17)
Honours Competitor for Peru Association football Copa America Bronze Argentina 2011
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 06:34, 20 December 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:17, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Guerrero and the second or maternal family name is Gonzales.

José Paolo Guerrero Gonzales (born 1 January 1984 in Lima) is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a striker for Hamburger SV and Peruvian national team.

Career

Early career

He started playing football in the lower categories of Peruvian club Alianza Lima, where he scored more than 200 goals. In 2002, Guerrero signed a contract with Bavarian giants Bayern Munich. During 2003–04, Guerrero played in the Regionalliga Süd. He played 23 games and scored 21 goals. During the 2004–05 season, he joined fellow countryman, Claudio Pizarro, on the Bayern first team. In June 2006, it was announced that Guerrero had transferred to Hamburger SV, and signed a contract with the club through 2010. He scored the winner against his former club Bayern Munich, which he did not celebrate because of his past with the club and the endearment he still felt for it. The result meant that Bayern had no chance of playing in the Champions League in the 2007–08 season.

Hamburger SV

Guerrero joined Hamburg in 2006 from Bayern Munich. His first season was marred by an injury, which took away half his season, and his low productivity, being a sub most of the season. Near the end he did score three goals, making his season total five goals in 20 games. One of these goals was against former club Bayern Munich in a 1–2 victory which left Bayern with no possibilities of making it to the Champions League. In the 2007–08 season, his second at Hamburg, Guerrero played 29 of 34 games in the Bundesliga, scoring nine goals and getting four assists, as well as becoming an undisputed starter and a vital part of Hamburg. He was the third top scorer, behind Rafael van der Vaart (12 goals) and Ivica Olić (14 goals). In the UEFA Cup and Qualification he played nine games, scoring five goals and getting three assists. His first hat-trick in his professional career was against Karlsruher SC, in the last game of the Bundesliga, scoring the second, third, and fourth goals in a 7–0 victory. This victory secured them fourth place and a UEFA Cup spot for next season. By the beginning of the 2008–09 season, Guerrero had become first choice striker for Hamburger SV. Coach Martin Jol even went as far as saying that Guerrero better not catch even a cold during the season.

Guerrero was fined a club record (somewhere in the region of €50,000–100,000) in April 2010 for an incident at the end of a league game with Hannover 96, where after apparently having been abused by a Hamburg fan, Guerrero threw his drinks bottle into the crowd, striking said fan in the face. The German Football Association suspended Guerrero for five league games and fined him a further €20,000.

International career

Paolo Guerrero's career with the Peruvian national team began in the doomed Germany 2006 campaign, but he managed to score twice for the national side. His first goal became the winner against Chile in Lima's Estadio Nacional. It was followed by a first minute goal in the next match against Ecuador in the same venue, though the Ecuadorians fought back to secure a 2–2 away draw. However, Guerrero was ruled out of Peru's first two 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying games because of injury. A further blow to Peru was laid down by FIFA when Guerrero was suspended 6 games for insulting the referee during the Uruguay vs. Peru game in June 2008. The suspension started with the Peru vs. Venezuela game in September.

Following Peru's disastrous qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup, José del Solar was replaced by Uruguayan manager Sergio Markarian and Guerrero was called up for the 2011 Copa America. In line of an injured Pizarro, Guerrero played as the team's starting striker in the Competition and scored five times, one each against Uruguay and Mexico followed by a hat trick against Venezuela in the Third Place play Off match which Peru won 4–1. He became the tournament's top goalscorer.

Personal Life

Guerrero suffers from aviatophobia. Media reports claim his fear of flying is due to the tragic death of his uncle José González Ganoza who died in the 1987 Alianza Lima air disaster. His uncle was also a footballer and had represented Alianza Lima and the Peru national team.

Guerrero also has an older brother, Julio Rivera Gonzalez, who was also a footballer for the Peru national team. Rivera was also formed in the Alianza Lima youth system.

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	17 November 2004	Lima, Peru	Chile	2–1	Win	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
2.	30 March 2005	Lima, Peru	Ecuador	2–2	Draw	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
3.	17 August 2005	Tacna, Peru	Chile	3–1	Win	Friendly
4.	6 September 2006	New Jersey, USA	Ecuador	1–1	Draw	Friendly
5.	7 October 2006	Viña del Mar, Chile	Chile	2–3	Loss	Friendly
6.	26 June 2007	Mérida, Venezuela	Uruguay	3–0	Win	2007 Copa América
7.	8 September 2007	Lima, Peru	Colombia	2–2	Draw	Friendly
8.	8 September 2007	Lima, Peru	Colombia	2–2	Draw	Friendly
9.	12 September 2007	Lima, Peru	Bolivia	2–0	Win	Friendly
10.	28 June 2011	Lima, Peru	Senegal	1–0	Win	Friendly
11.	4 July 2011	San Juan, Argentina	Uruguay	1–1	Draw	2011 Copa América
12.	8 July 2011	Mendoza, Argentina	Mexico	1–0	Win	2011 Copa América
13.	23 July 2011	La Plata, Argentina	Venezuela	4–1	Win	2011 Copa América
14.	23 July 2011	La Plata, Argentina	Venezuela	4–1	Win	2011 Copa América
15.	23 July 2011	La Plata, Argentina	Venezuela	4–1	Win	2011 Copa América
16.	7 October 2011	Lima, Peru	Paraguay	2–0	Win	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
17.	7 October 2011	Lima, Peru	Paraguay	2–0	Win	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)

Honours

Club titles

Season	Team	Title
2003–04	FC Bayern Munich II	Regionalliga Süd
2004–05	FC Bayern Munich	Bundesliga
2005	FC Bayern Munich	DFB-Pokal
2005–06	FC Bayern Munich	Bundesliga
2006	FC Bayern Munich	DFB-Pokal
2007	Hamburger SV	UEFA Intertoto Cup

National titles

Season	Team	Title
2001	Peru U17 national team	Bolivarian Games
2011	Peru national team	Copa America – Bronze medal

Individual Honours

• Top scorer in Regionalliga Süd – 21 goals in 23 games
• Best Peruvian football player in Copa America 2007
• Top Scorer in Copa America 2011

Career statistics

As of 27 September 2010 (2010 -09-27)

All-Time Club Performance

Club	Season	Domestic League		Domestic Cup		European Competition		All Competitions
		App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals
Bayern Munich II	2002–03	18	8	-	-	-	-	18	8
	2003–04	24	21	1	-	-	-	25	21
	2004–05	11	7	3	4	-	-	14	11
	2005–06	13	9	1	0	-	-	13	9
	Total	66	45	4	4	-	-	70	49
Bayern Munich	2004–05	13	6	1	-	6	1	20	7
	2005–06	14	4	3	1	7	1	24	6
	Total	27	10	4	1	13	2	44	13
Hamburg	2006–07	20	5	-	-	5	0	25	5
	2007–08	29	9	3	0	9	5	41	14
	2008–09	31	9	5	1	12	4	48	14
	2009–10	6	4	1	0	6	3	13	7
	2010–11	25	4	2	1	-	-	27	5
	2011–12	4	0	0	0	-	-	4	0
	Total	115	31	11	2	32	12	158	45
Career Total		208	86	19	7	45	14	272	107

External links

• Paolo Guerrero at HSV.de
• Paolo Guerrero at fussballdaten.de (German)