Guillermo Barros Schelotto

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Guillermo Barros Schelotto
Full name	Guillermo Barros Schelotto
Date of birth	May 4, 1973 (age 33)
Place of birth	La Plata, Argentina
Nickname	El Mellizo (The Twin), Guille, Chapita
Playing position	Winger
Club information
Current club	Boca Juniors
Youth clubs
?	Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991-96 1996-	G. y E. de La Plata Boca Juniors	181 (45) 196 (60)
National team
1998-	Argentina	10 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Guillermo Barros Schelotto (born May 4, 1973 in La Plata, Argentina) is a football player, who plays for Boca Juniors of Primera División Argentina.Guillermo is the most winner football player of Argentine professional Football history ever guaranteed by his 17 official titles.

El Mellizo ("the twin") started playing professionally at the end of 1991 with Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, where he scored 45 goals in 181 matches and in 1993 won the AFA Centenario Cup playing for Gimnasia. On September 14, 1997 he transferred to Boca Juniors, for whom he has now played for almost 10 years. Currently, he plays for Boca with the number 7 on his shirt.

He holds the Boca record of 15 titles and the Argentine player with the most ever titles won, with 17 titles, seconded by Oscar Ruggeri. Barros' titles are:

He is also Boca's top scorer in international matches with 25 goals. With the Argentina national football team, he has played 10 matches, and won the Golden Medal in Panamerican Games (Juegos Panamericanos) sub-23.

Even though he is seldom chosen for the starting team, Guillermo is not only still considered an idol by Boca Fans, but also provides his experience to the team whenever he is sent to the pitch. For instance, at the Superclásico against River Plate of March 26, 2006, he entered 10 minutes before the end of the game, gaining a penalty shoot that tied the match^[1]; at the end of the match he was carried out on his collages' shoulders, and later praised by the media.

Close to the end of his contract with Boca in 2007, it was rumored that he would leave the club to join a team where he would get more minutes on the field. Coach Russo would seldom choose him for his starting team, even when the fans ask for him^[2], and Guillermo had positive performances.

On May 2006 his biography "Guillermo, el terrible. Historia de un ídolo" ("Guillermo the Menace. History of an idol") was published, written by Pablo Vicente and Sergio Maffei, with prologue of César Luis Menotti and comments of figures such as Carlos Bianchi, Carlos Griguol, Diego Maradona, Oscar Tabárez and Daniel Passarella

Guillermo has a twin brother, Gustavo, with whom he played at Gimnasia, and also at Boca for a short period of time.