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Name
Paolo Guerrero
(José Paolo Guerrero Gonzáles)

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Born
1984 (40 years old)

Birth Place

Chorrillos, Peru

Position
Centre-Forward

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Hispanic

Team Number
9

Height
1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

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Team
Universidad César Vallejo

2nd Team
Peru

League
Peruvian Primera Division

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José Paolo Guerrero Gonzáles (born 1 January 1984) is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Peruvian Primera División club Universidad César Vallejo and the Peru national team.

Forging his career in Germany, Guerrero started at giants Bayern Munich, before making his name at Hamburger SV, scoring 47 goals across eight Bundesliga seasons. His greatest successes came in Brazil, where he scored the winning goal of the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup final for Corinthians.

With 39 goals in 119 matches for Peru since debuting at 20, Guerrero holds the honour of being the highest goalscorer for his national team. He has represented them at five Copas América and one World Cup. He led them to third place in the 2011 and 2015 Copas, and to runners-up in 2019, finishing as top scorer in all three of these tournaments. He is also the top scoring active player in the Copa América. He was one of 59 nominees for the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or, becoming the first Peruvian to receive that recognition. He's also the oldest Peruvian player to appear in a World Cup, at the age of 34 and 177 days.

In 2021, the IFFHS included Guerrero in their best South American team of the last decade, being recognized as the best South American center forward between 2010 and 2020 (joining the podium with Neymar and Sergio Agüero). In addition, he was voted the "best centre forward in America" in 2012 and 2017 by the newspaper El País, based on the opinion of some two hundred journalists from the region. He has also been named included by CONMEBOL in the teams of the tournament for the 2011, 2015 and 2019 Copas América.

Season Stats
2 appearances in the current 2024 Season

Career Honours

Campeonato Paulista 2013 Corinthians	CONMEBOL Recopa Sudamericana 2013 Corinthians	FIFA Club World Cup 2012 Hamburg	UEFA Intertoto Cup 2007 Hamburg
German Bundesliga 2005-2006 Bayern Munich	German DFB-Pokal 2005-2006 Bayern Munich II	German Bundesliga 2004-2005 Bayern Munich	German DFB-Pokal 2004-2005 Bayern Munich II