MITH AND LEGEND - The history of a goalkeeper who scores goles

Chilavert, the myth...

He scores decisives goals but he is not a forward and not even a midfielder, Josè Luis Chilavert is an only personage, a man with a great temperament, often controversial in field like outside, he has played for years in Argentine where all, or nearly, hates him, the public provoked him evermore with choruses and Chila with courage answers them continuously, hatred of the persons in his confronts caused sometimes absurd actions, in the past someone throw's to Chila a Knife, and some time after he was centered by a powerful firecracker, which provoked to Chila a light concussion. Maybe in search for a better place for himself and family he is disembarked in Europe, at Strasburgo, calm citizen of the Alsace, where he has already gained a Cup of France showing to all what kind of person is Chilavert. "El Chila" does not seem to be interested in people whose hates him and continues for a long time with his behavior sometimes irritating that however renders him the personage who is, Chila loves to criticize, above all the other goalkeepers, that he blames when they takes stupid goals and humiliates making them goals, for the European goalkeepers has strict words " They know only play in the more traditional way, when they kick the ball make pain, they have much to learn from South American goalkeepers! ". Chilavert with Europe is still angry, when he played in Spain, just in the Saragozza, soon was drove back in Argentine.

What he says, his phrases, does not concur to forget that Chilavert is a various goalkeeper, revolutionary, he seems to have very clear ideas of himself " They say that Paraguayans are timid persons, I am a Paraguayan little Paraguayan even if I don't forget my origins, someone thinks that I am mounting, but it isn't true, I am humble, but not submitted! ". Chila loves to maintain the promises, he said that he would have scored a goal to the Argentine at Buenos Aires and he scored it (1-1), his great pride is that he has been the better goalkeeper of the world for two times also not playing in Europe. " my dream is to realize a goal at the world-cup ", he said some times ago, and in effect he was nearly to score a goal at France 98. His personality is very marked, in all the senses, he had crashs with all people that defined him fat and with who has invited him to become thin, on 5 May 1997 he spitted to a journalist that provoked him, on june 1998 after the disembarkation of the Paraguayans in France, Chilavert has instead quarelled with the president of the olympic Paraguayan committee Cèsar Luis Puente, which had before criticized Chila and then approached him for an autograph. One day he assaulted a ballboy and he justified himself saying "he was too much slow! ". But Chilavert isn't only this! Chila is the most famous personage of Paraguay he has expressed more times the desire to become president of the republic and he has already begun the electoral propaganda. For Chilavert the native land is the fundamental thing, he is very preoccupied for the problems in his country, the poverty, the children... he expresses with hard terms on this arguments. Chila doesn't support that good part of the population in Paraguay is ignoring because therefore is easier for the government to go against the population. In an interview for an Argentine newspaper in 1996 he said "who governs are men who fill up the mouth with the word "people" but ago only the transactions for themselfs and friends! ". In summer ' 99 Chilavert didn't dispute the Cup of America in Paraguay , because he was contrary to the organizers, he critics were feracious " I cannot participate to an organized torneo from persons (the general coupist Linen Oviedo) that has intentional pour blood in my country! ". Chilavert is boasted of to have grown in the poverty, to have turned barefoot in order to carry to the pasture three cows and to have interrupted the studies for soccer, the goalkeeper is not thought diplomatic " I'm not diplomatic, I say what I think, to be diplomatic often makes people to being false, I am true, I never lie! ".

A goalkeeper with the vice of the gol...

The power of the Chilavert shootA vice born nearly for game, Chilavert in 1984 played in Argentine, in the Saint Lorenzo, his coach was Bora Milutinovic, which at the term of every training invites Chilavert to try freekicks by hitting with the ball the Coke bottles in row one near the other. The thing was amusing but it was replaced, always for game, from an other challenge: Chilavert had to score on freekick with the barrier at only 6.50 meters. All therefore, in order to laugh. But from the game to the discovery of an incredible talent the step was short. Chilavert kick's freekicks all the days and then he becames infallible! His freekicks become magical and he scores a lot of time. Bora Milutinovic understands, let Chila try freekicks only in training would be a crime. And therefore the legend of the goalkeeper who scores goals was born. Important goals, like that one scored in far away 1989 in National against Colombia. On the 1-1 at the 90 ' it comes decreed a penalty kick but nobody feels to kick it. Chilavert abandons the posts, runs throw the field and scores the goal. The opponent goalkeeper was Higuita, Chila's idol! Paraguay will win 2-1. Chila becames a goalkeeper because he was forced by his brother who says that he was too tin. At 15 years the debut in the most important championship in Paraguay, the next season the passage to the Guarani Club, the most important team of Asuncion, the Capital of Paraguay. Chilavert wins the Championship, so he has been noticed from Argentine emissaries who carried him to the Saint Lorenzo. In Argentine he knows his wife and he becames a personage: shaved the head every week, he takes an uncultivated small beard. In Spain, in the sad season at the Saragozza, Chila knows Carlos Bianchi. The next year in Argentine with Chila and Carlos Bianchi Velez Sarsfield becames one of the stronger teams of the world. Four titles, one Libertadores Cup, the Intercontinental Cup winned against the Milan of Capello, and other less importants trophies. Chilavert wins the Football of gold of the South America (1996), an acknowledgment of El Pais of Montevideo assigned to the best players of the continent. Finally the exploit with Paraguay at the last world-cup in France.

 

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