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José Luis Chilavert - if you haven't heard that name before in the footballing world I'll be presuming you've either lived under a rock for 20 years or you're dead. Chilavert is a goalkeeper, as you'll probably have picked up on, but he's not your normal regular goalkeeper that is simply there to block shots. Chilavert is captain of his national side which happens to be Paraguay, and therefore, is there to build up the morale of the team, and let's just say he does that fairly well. He has been involved in many incidents outside football and is one of the highest scoring players for his country, which is slightly weird considering the fact that he is a goalie after all. These strange aspects about Chilavert are the reason that I've decided to 'direct' a topic towards him.
On and off the field, Chilavert is a man of high morale - he is constantly boosting his fellow players with encouragement and giving them expectations to look up to. Whether it be in a press conference, in the dressing room, out on the pitch and even half way through a match, Chilavert won't stop shouting out useful pieces of advice to the various players on his team. The team gain some sort of morale-booster from Chilavert, and this is probably the reason that they finished 3rd in the World Cup Qualifiers and reached the 2nd round of the World Cup, even with an ageing and unfit team. Without Chilavert, Paraguay are a shambles, an unorganised bunch of schoolkids, but when he's there, they play well, pass the ball around nicely, defend strongly and usefully, and on the whole, work better together as a unit. José Luis Chilavert is the experienced player and isn't captain of his squad for nothing.
Chilavert can't be called the most 'friendly' of players though. Many a time has he lashed out at the opposition players. He was suspended for 5 matches on the road to World Cup 2002 when he punched Roberto Carlos in the back of the head for really, no reason. In the 1999 Copa America he was suspended for another 4 matches and given a large fine for attacking Asprillia of Colombia. Earlier in that particular match with Colombia, he was caught throwing knives at the Colombia fans - no, Chilavert didn't bring his own knives onto the field. The Colombian fans behind his goal had somehow gotten knives into the stadium, and had begun lobbing them at Chilavert, and instead of doing the sensible thing and ignoring them, Chilavert proceeded towards them and started lobbing the knives back. This got him *another* lengthly suspension.
The most strange fact you'll probably hear about Chilavert is the one that I'm going to talk about now. Chilavert is a goalscorer. He's a goalkeeper, and a goalscorer too. He's scored around 30 goals for his national country, and many more than that for his club, Strasbourg. How has he scored so many goals? Well, the answer is, he's a very talented free-kick and penalty taker. Chilavert practises 130 free-kicks a day, and another 40 penalties. This makes him lethal from the dead ball situations, and he's the only player that I can say matches up to David Beckham in the free-kick taking area. If you have to remember Chilavert from one part of this topic, always remember this part - he's a goalkeeping goalscorer!
Chilavert is reaching 'old age' now. Well, for the footballing world anyway. He is now 37 years of age, and many were saying that World Cup 2002 would be his last World Cup - he is going to try and prove them all wrong though. Chilavert says he wants to continue to play until he is 45, but most probably won't. He's just wanting to make everyone happy like... umm... Santa Claus. Anyway, even if Chilavert does retire from National Football, he still has his little French club to play for, and probably has a few more years of Club Football left in him. This is good news for everyone, as we can continue to enjoy watching our favourite goalkeeper strut his stuff! It's a pity he only plays for Strasbourg though, so we won't see him that often...
José Luis Chilavert has been portrayed as a genius by many, and as an idiot by the select few. Personally, I think Chilavert is brilliant, and I hope he continues to play for a few more years - most definitely my favourite player around, and there are many reasons for that. The master-motivator, the bald-headed looney, the insane goalscoring goalkeeper, or whatever you like to call him is simply the most exciting football player around to watch, and anyone that doesn't admire him prancing around like a chimp on happy pills deserves to be shot!
~AJ~
On and off the field, Chilavert is a man of high morale - he is constantly boosting his fellow players with encouragement and giving them expectations to look up to. Whether it be in a press conference, in the dressing room, out on the pitch and even half way through a match, Chilavert won't stop shouting out useful pieces of advice to the various players on his team. The team gain some sort of morale-booster from Chilavert, and this is probably the reason that they finished 3rd in the World Cup Qualifiers and reached the 2nd round of the World Cup, even with an ageing and unfit team. Without Chilavert, Paraguay are a shambles, an unorganised bunch of schoolkids, but when he's there, they play well, pass the ball around nicely, defend strongly and usefully, and on the whole, work better together as a unit. José Luis Chilavert is the experienced player and isn't captain of his squad for nothing.
Chilavert can't be called the most 'friendly' of players though. Many a time has he lashed out at the opposition players. He was suspended for 5 matches on the road to World Cup 2002 when he punched Roberto Carlos in the back of the head for really, no reason. In the 1999 Copa America he was suspended for another 4 matches and given a large fine for attacking Asprillia of Colombia. Earlier in that particular match with Colombia, he was caught throwing knives at the Colombia fans - no, Chilavert didn't bring his own knives onto the field. The Colombian fans behind his goal had somehow gotten knives into the stadium, and had begun lobbing them at Chilavert, and instead of doing the sensible thing and ignoring them, Chilavert proceeded towards them and started lobbing the knives back. This got him *another* lengthly suspension.
The most strange fact you'll probably hear about Chilavert is the one that I'm going to talk about now. Chilavert is a goalscorer. He's a goalkeeper, and a goalscorer too. He's scored around 30 goals for his national country, and many more than that for his club, Strasbourg. How has he scored so many goals? Well, the answer is, he's a very talented free-kick and penalty taker. Chilavert practises 130 free-kicks a day, and another 40 penalties. This makes him lethal from the dead ball situations, and he's the only player that I can say matches up to David Beckham in the free-kick taking area. If you have to remember Chilavert from one part of this topic, always remember this part - he's a goalkeeping goalscorer!
Chilavert is reaching 'old age' now. Well, for the footballing world anyway. He is now 37 years of age, and many were saying that World Cup 2002 would be his last World Cup - he is going to try and prove them all wrong though. Chilavert says he wants to continue to play until he is 45, but most probably won't. He's just wanting to make everyone happy like... umm... Santa Claus. Anyway, even if Chilavert does retire from National Football, he still has his little French club to play for, and probably has a few more years of Club Football left in him. This is good news for everyone, as we can continue to enjoy watching our favourite goalkeeper strut his stuff! It's a pity he only plays for Strasbourg though, so we won't see him that often...
José Luis Chilavert has been portrayed as a genius by many, and as an idiot by the select few. Personally, I think Chilavert is brilliant, and I hope he continues to play for a few more years - most definitely my favourite player around, and there are many reasons for that. The master-motivator, the bald-headed looney, the insane goalscoring goalkeeper, or whatever you like to call him is simply the most exciting football player around to watch, and anyone that doesn't admire him prancing around like a chimp on happy pills deserves to be shot!
~AJ~
Solskjær wrote:
> Shame we never really got to see him play in th World Cup though. :(
> That could've been his last... :S
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I know. He hit the bar from a free-kick though - that moment lit up my whole World Cup! If it'd gone in he'd have been a worldwide hero. :-D
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> Why on Earth did Strasbourg sack him??
> I've heard the reason before, and I think it was to do with some
> off-the-pitch incident...?
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Yeah, it was an off-field incident. He helped them get from the bottom of the French 2nd Division to the 1st Division in France and they just sack him for some stupid little off-pitch incident. Ah well, hopefully a good team will snatchhim up now. :-)
> Shame we never really got to see him play in th World Cup though. :(
> That could've been his last... :S
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I know. He hit the bar from a free-kick though - that moment lit up my whole World Cup! If it'd gone in he'd have been a worldwide hero. :-D
---
> Why on Earth did Strasbourg sack him??
> I've heard the reason before, and I think it was to do with some
> off-the-pitch incident...?
---
Yeah, it was an off-field incident. He helped them get from the bottom of the French 2nd Division to the 1st Division in France and they just sack him for some stupid little off-pitch incident. Ah well, hopefully a good team will snatchhim up now. :-)
I knew about his Goalscoring with his Free Kicks and Penalties, and I knew he was Captain for his national side; Paraguay. But I didn't realise he was THAT good a Captain, getting his players really fired-up for the important games.
I'll be sad to see him retire. And i'm sure we will never see another keeper - or even an outfield-player - quite like him.
He's one of a kind, football needs people like him to lighten it up.
Shame we never really got to see him play in th World Cup though. :(
That could've been his last... :S
Why on Earth did Strasbourg sack him??
I've heard the reason before, and I think it was to do with some off-the-pitch incident...?
I'll be sad to see him retire. And i'm sure we will never see another keeper - or even an outfield-player - quite like him.
He's one of a kind, football needs people like him to lighten it up.
Shame we never really got to see him play in th World Cup though. :(
That could've been his last... :S
Why on Earth did Strasbourg sack him??
I've heard the reason before, and I think it was to do with some off-the-pitch incident...?
Back when I was a huge footie fan a few years ago, I thought of Chilavert as one of my fave players, because, for some reason, I was into obscure foreigners.
POP!
José Luis Chilavert - if you haven't heard that name before in the footballing world I'll be presuming you've either lived under a rock for 20 years or you're dead. Chilavert is a goalkeeper, as you'll probably have picked up on, but he's not your normal regular goalkeeper that is simply there to block shots. Chilavert is captain of his national side which happens to be Paraguay, and therefore, is there to build up the morale of the team, and let's just say he does that fairly well. He has been involved in many incidents outside football and is one of the highest scoring players for his country, which is slightly weird considering the fact that he is a goalie after all. These strange aspects about Chilavert are the reason that I've decided to 'direct' a topic towards him.
On and off the field, Chilavert is a man of high morale - he is constantly boosting his fellow players with encouragement and giving them expectations to look up to. Whether it be in a press conference, in the dressing room, out on the pitch and even half way through a match, Chilavert won't stop shouting out useful pieces of advice to the various players on his team. The team gain some sort of morale-booster from Chilavert, and this is probably the reason that they finished 3rd in the World Cup Qualifiers and reached the 2nd round of the World Cup, even with an ageing and unfit team. Without Chilavert, Paraguay are a shambles, an unorganised bunch of schoolkids, but when he's there, they play well, pass the ball around nicely, defend strongly and usefully, and on the whole, work better together as a unit. José Luis Chilavert is the experienced player and isn't captain of his squad for nothing.
Chilavert can't be called the most 'friendly' of players though. Many a time has he lashed out at the opposition players. He was suspended for 5 matches on the road to World Cup 2002 when he punched Roberto Carlos in the back of the head for really, no reason. In the 1999 Copa America he was suspended for another 4 matches and given a large fine for attacking Asprillia of Colombia. Earlier in that particular match with Colombia, he was caught throwing knives at the Colombia fans - no, Chilavert didn't bring his own knives onto the field. The Colombian fans behind his goal had somehow gotten knives into the stadium, and had begun lobbing them at Chilavert, and instead of doing the sensible thing and ignoring them, Chilavert proceeded towards them and started lobbing the knives back. This got him *another* lengthly suspension.
The most strange fact you'll probably hear about Chilavert is the one that I'm going to talk about now. Chilavert is a goalscorer. He's a goalkeeper, and a goalscorer too. He's scored around 30 goals for his national country, and many more than that for his club, Strasbourg. How has he scored so many goals? Well, the answer is, he's a very talented free-kick and penalty taker. Chilavert practises 130 free-kicks a day, and another 40 penalties. This makes him lethal from the dead ball situations, and he's the only player that I can say matches up to David Beckham in the free-kick taking area. If you have to remember Chilavert from one part of this topic, always remember this part - he's a goalkeeping goalscorer!
Chilavert is reaching 'old age' now. Well, for the footballing world anyway. He is now 37 years of age, and many were saying that World Cup 2002 would be his last World Cup - he is going to try and prove them all wrong though. Chilavert says he wants to continue to play until he is 45, but most probably won't. He's just wanting to make everyone happy like... umm... Santa Claus. Anyway, even if Chilavert does retire from National Football, he still has his little French club to play for, and probably has a few more years of Club Football left in him. This is good news for everyone, as we can continue to enjoy watching our favourite goalkeeper strut his stuff! It's a pity he only plays for Strasbourg though, so we won't see him that often...
José Luis Chilavert has been portrayed as a genius by many, and as an idiot by the select few. Personally, I think Chilavert is brilliant, and I hope he continues to play for a few more years - most definitely my favourite player around, and there are many reasons for that. The master-motivator, the bald-headed looney, the insane goalscoring goalkeeper, or whatever you like to call him is simply the most exciting football player around to watch, and anyone that doesn't admire him prancing around like a chimp on happy pills deserves to be shot!
~AJ~
On and off the field, Chilavert is a man of high morale - he is constantly boosting his fellow players with encouragement and giving them expectations to look up to. Whether it be in a press conference, in the dressing room, out on the pitch and even half way through a match, Chilavert won't stop shouting out useful pieces of advice to the various players on his team. The team gain some sort of morale-booster from Chilavert, and this is probably the reason that they finished 3rd in the World Cup Qualifiers and reached the 2nd round of the World Cup, even with an ageing and unfit team. Without Chilavert, Paraguay are a shambles, an unorganised bunch of schoolkids, but when he's there, they play well, pass the ball around nicely, defend strongly and usefully, and on the whole, work better together as a unit. José Luis Chilavert is the experienced player and isn't captain of his squad for nothing.
Chilavert can't be called the most 'friendly' of players though. Many a time has he lashed out at the opposition players. He was suspended for 5 matches on the road to World Cup 2002 when he punched Roberto Carlos in the back of the head for really, no reason. In the 1999 Copa America he was suspended for another 4 matches and given a large fine for attacking Asprillia of Colombia. Earlier in that particular match with Colombia, he was caught throwing knives at the Colombia fans - no, Chilavert didn't bring his own knives onto the field. The Colombian fans behind his goal had somehow gotten knives into the stadium, and had begun lobbing them at Chilavert, and instead of doing the sensible thing and ignoring them, Chilavert proceeded towards them and started lobbing the knives back. This got him *another* lengthly suspension.
The most strange fact you'll probably hear about Chilavert is the one that I'm going to talk about now. Chilavert is a goalscorer. He's a goalkeeper, and a goalscorer too. He's scored around 30 goals for his national country, and many more than that for his club, Strasbourg. How has he scored so many goals? Well, the answer is, he's a very talented free-kick and penalty taker. Chilavert practises 130 free-kicks a day, and another 40 penalties. This makes him lethal from the dead ball situations, and he's the only player that I can say matches up to David Beckham in the free-kick taking area. If you have to remember Chilavert from one part of this topic, always remember this part - he's a goalkeeping goalscorer!
Chilavert is reaching 'old age' now. Well, for the footballing world anyway. He is now 37 years of age, and many were saying that World Cup 2002 would be his last World Cup - he is going to try and prove them all wrong though. Chilavert says he wants to continue to play until he is 45, but most probably won't. He's just wanting to make everyone happy like... umm... Santa Claus. Anyway, even if Chilavert does retire from National Football, he still has his little French club to play for, and probably has a few more years of Club Football left in him. This is good news for everyone, as we can continue to enjoy watching our favourite goalkeeper strut his stuff! It's a pity he only plays for Strasbourg though, so we won't see him that often...
José Luis Chilavert has been portrayed as a genius by many, and as an idiot by the select few. Personally, I think Chilavert is brilliant, and I hope he continues to play for a few more years - most definitely my favourite player around, and there are many reasons for that. The master-motivator, the bald-headed looney, the insane goalscoring goalkeeper, or whatever you like to call him is simply the most exciting football player around to watch, and anyone that doesn't admire him prancing around like a chimp on happy pills deserves to be shot!
~AJ~