Martín Palermo

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Martín Palermo
Personal information
Date of birth	7 November 1973
Place of birth	La Plata, Argentina
Nickname	El Loco
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Boca Juniors
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991-1997 1997-2000 2001-2003 2003 2004 2004-	Estudiantes La Plata Boca Juniors Villarreal CF Real Betis Alaves Boca Juniors	93 (32) 108 (91) 70 (18) 11 (2) 14 (3) 73 (41)
National team2
	Argentina	7 (3)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2005. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 2005. * Appearances (Goals)

Martín "El Loco" Palermo (born November 7, 1973 in La Plata, Argentina) is a professional footballer currently playing for Boca Juniors of Argentina. He has also played in Argentina for Estudiantes de La Plata as well as in La Liga for Villarreal CF, Real Betis, and Deportivo Alavés.

His career started slowly at Estudiantes de La Plata and it was not until he transferred to Boca Juniors that he won international recognition due to his impressive goal average, and his excellent performances in international matches. The peak of his career was probably the Intercontinental Cup in 2000, when he scored two goals in Boca's 2–1 victory over Real Madrid, catching the attention of football clubs in Spain.

However Palermo then suffered a number of injuries that held him back from a transfer to Lazio in Italy, and also hindered his adaptation to European football when he was finally transferred to Spain:

• On November 13, 1999 he had a complete tear of the cruciate ligament of his right knee, which required a six-month recovery period.
• On November 20, 2001, after celebrating a goal, he stood on a small concrete wall, which collapsed under the weight of Villarreal's fans and broke both the tibia and fibula of his left leg, leading to two months of inactivity.

Boca Juniors fans consider him an idol, not only because of the number of goals he has scored for the team, but also for scoring many important goals against Boca's arch rivals River Plate.

On May 24, 2000 he returned to football after more than six months of inactivity after his first major injury. He played the last fifteen minutes of the quarterfinal match of the Copa Libertadores against River Plate, and scored the goal that sealed the victory with what he called "the most emotional goal of my career", leaving the score at 3–0 to Boca Juniors (the first match ended 1–2).

With the Argentine national team he played seven matches, and scored three goals. Rather less impressively, he holds the world record of three penalties missed in one single match, during the match between Argentina and Colombia for the Copa América 1999.

On February 24, 2007, in a game against Independiente de Avellaneda, he scored one of the best goals of his career. During the last minutes of the game he stole the ball from an opponent on his own side of the field and scored from 61.2 meters away from the goal (video). Boca Juniors won that game 3-1. Only 2 weeks later he scored three goals against his former team Estudiantes in the 3-1 Boca's victory at La Plata, and he didn't celebrate any of them^[1]. It was the forth triplette of his career. A game later, on March 18, he scored a career high of 4 goals in the 5-1 victory against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata^[2], Estudiantes de La Plata's archi-rivals.

Contents 1 Achievements 1.1 Team 1.2 Individual 2 Trivia 3 Career 4 References

[edit] Achievements

[edit] Team

• Recopa Sudamericana (2006)
• Argentine First Division (2006 Clausura) (Boca Juniors)
• Copa Sudamericana (2005)
• Recopa Sudamericana (2005)
• Argentine First Division (2005 Apertura) (Boca Juniors)
• Copa Sudamericana(2004)
• Intercontinental Cup (2000)
• Copa Libertadores (2000)
• Argentine First Division (2000 Apertura) (Boca Juniors)
• Argentine First Division (1999 Clausura) (Boca Juniors)
• Argentine First Division (1998 Apertura) (Boca Juniors)
• Argentine Second Division (1994/95) (Estudiantes)

[edit] Individual

• Best Player Intercontinental Cup (2000)
• Best South American Player (1998)
• Argentine First Division Top Scorer (20 goals, 19 matches) (1998 Apertura)
• Argentine League 22nd Top Scorer of All Time Career (154 goals)

[edit] Trivia

• First professional match: July 5, 1992 Clausura. (San Lorenzo 0–0 Estudiantes)
• First professional goal: May 22, 1993 Apertura (Estudiantes 3–0 San Martín)
• First european professional match: February 4, 2001. (Villarreal 2–1 Alavés)

[edit] Career

Year	Team	Matches	Goals
2004/07	Boca Juniors	72	37
/2004	Alaves	14	3
2003/	Real Betis	11	2
2002/03	Villarreal CF	34	7
2001/02	Villarreal CF	19	5
/2001	Villarreal CF	17	6
2000/	Boca Juniors	26	15
1999/2000	Boca Juniors	21	21
1998/99	Boca Juniors	39	35
1997/98	Boca Juniors	22	20
1996/97	Estudiantes La Plata	36	14
1995/96	Estudiantes La Plata	27	16
1994/95	Estudiantes La Plata	3	0
1993/94	Estudiantes La Plata	17	1
1992/93	Estudiantes La Plata	9	1
1991/92	Estudiantes La Plata	1	0

[edit] References

1. ^ "Martín es de Boca" - Diario Ole (Spanish)
2. ^ "Se volvió loco" - Diario Ole (Spanish)

• Martín Palermo Tactical Formations at Football-Lineups.com

Boca Juniors - Current Squad

1 Bobadilla | 2 Silvestre | 3 Morel Rodríguez | 4 Ibarra | 5 Battaglia | 6 Díaz | 7 Barros Schelotto | 8 Leandro Díaz | 9 Palermo | 10 Riquelme | 11 Marioni | 12 Caranta | 13 García | 14 Palacio | 15 Marino | 16 Orteman | 17 Boselli | 19 Cardozo | 20 Maidana | 22 Cahais | 23 Dátolo | 24 Banega | 25 Migliore | 27 Ledesma | 29 Franzoia | -- Bertolo | -- Clemente Rodríguez | -- Krupoviesa | -- Mondaini | -- Urribarri | Coach: Russo