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Marcelo Zalayeta
Personal information
Full name Marcelo Danubio Zalayeta
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Bologna
Number 25

Marcelo Danubio Zalayeta (born December 5, 1978 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan football striker who currently plays for Serie A club Bologna and the Uruguayan national team.

Club career

Marcelo started his career with Danubio and then moving to Peñarol in Uruguay, where he made a name for himself. He moved to Juve in 1997 but considered a promising young player at the time, he was not given much of a chance to prove himself. He spent a season on loan with Empoli, and he also starred in Uruguay's surge for the Copa América in 1999, who lost in the final to Brazil. Two more years away from the club followed, he played for Sevilla until 2001. At last when it seemed Juve lacked forwards he was brought back to Italy at the start of 2001-02, but he was loaned out to Perugia in 2004 before returning to Juventus in the same year. Although he has not played many matches thus far he has done well the times he has been given a chance.

He scored two very important extra time winners against Spanish opposition for Juventus. One came in 2003 in the quarter-finals of UEFA Champions League against FC Barcelona; the other against Real Madrid in the 2005 round of 16. In the 2003 UEFA Champions League Final, Zalayeta was one of the three Juventus players to have their penalty saved by AC Milan keeper Dida in the shootout. After a decade with Juventus, he moved to Napoli in the summer of 2007.[2] Napoli paid €1.4million for half of the rights (co-ownership). He played 49 Serie A matches and scored 12 goals in 2 seasons, but at the start of 2009-10 season ,he became surplus of the team, and not offered a shirt number.[3]

On 21 August 2009 Zalayeta joins Bologna on loan from Napoli[4].

International career

Zalayeta was selected in a 23-man squad for Uruguay's World Cup intercontinental playoff against Australia. Unfortunately it would not be a pleasant experience as Zalayeta was one out of two penalty kick takers whose shot had been saved by Australian goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer. Following Zalayeta's failure to convert, this culminated Australia to win 4-2 on penalties and qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany, and eliminating Uruguay in the process. He then retired from national team.

Honours

National Team

Juventus

Peñarol

  • One Uruguayan Championship 1997
  • One Uruguayan Liguilla Cup 1997

References

  1. ^ Statistics on National-Football-Teams-com
  2. ^ Channel4.com
  3. ^ "Napoli, ecco i numeri di maglia" (in Italian). SSC Napoli. 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
  4. ^ "Marcelo Zalayeta in prestito al Bologna e Luigi Vitale al Livorno" (in Italian). SSC Napoli. 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
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