Will Pizarro say goodbye in Peru? Five answers about the current situation of the Bomber that turned 45 years old

Even in retirement, Claudio pizarro He continues to be the most recognized Peruvian player worldwide in recent times. And he doesn’t stop. Whether as an ambassador for Bayern, facing other legends, or in each of his statements, the ‘Bomber of the Andes’ remains united to the sport that was and is his life, and his legacy grows as the maximum exponent of Peruvian football in Europe. This Tuesday, on his 45th birthday, we review the present of the remembered former captain of the national team after a career that spanned more than two decades.

Ambassador and Peruvian legend of Bayern

In a new role, the former goalscorer continues to convey what Bayern Munich represents as an ambassador for the German club. He first knew how to shine in two stages with the ‘Bavarians’ (2001-2007 and 2012-2015), scoring 125 of his 197 goals with that shirt. He now deploys the values ​​of the institution throughout the world and is a reference for the German promises. And he continues to show his football. Since he joined as an ambassador in 2020, he also joined as a member of the FC Bayern Legends, where he continues to score and faces other renowned figures. “Apart from that, I am a legend of the Bundesliga and FIFA. I was in the World Cup, I went to the final of the Club World Cup as well. There is always something to do,” said the great conqueror in a recent interview with ‘Cuto’ Guadalupe.

One more fan of Alianza and the national team

Yes, in Claudio Pizarro’s life after football there is also room for League 1 and its nuances. Also, of course, for the Peruvian team. “I generally watch Alianza matches, especially when they are not so late,” our latest great export scorer recently revealed, who has the same desires as any ‘intimate’ player. “I think he has a chance of winning the three-time championship and I hope it happens. From here we are always doing our best for them so they can get it,” he said from Germany. And Pizarro has not separated from the Bicolor either. The former forward closely follows Juan Reynoso’s team and maintains communication with several of the team’s current leaders. He has visited the ‘Bicolor’ on more than one occasion abroad and vouches for the national team’s present in each post-retirement interview. He has even met with the national coach in Europe. “I was recently with him, it was for a Champions League match, Bayern vs Manchester City, I met up with him, we went to dinner, talked a little about football and had a good time,” he announced in August of this year.

Farewell match in Peru

Zé Roberto on his last visit to Lima revived the topic. Pizarro deserves a farewell match in Peru, he slipped when asked about his friend and former teammate at Bayern. But ‘Bombardero’ himself made a clarification that disappointed many: “That issue is ruled out,” he said in dialogue with the national press. “Zé is a very dear friend, I really like his words and we have always had a very good relationship,” he recalled, but the match in Lima “is already a little complicated” at this point, he acknowledged, much to the regret of his Peruvian fans. which are not few. “I have left football four years ago. I first thought about it when I said goodbye in Germany, but later the situation began to cool down and it was not so easy or feasible to handle it,” he commented on the possibility that apparently disappeared.

Your passions and businesses

With more calm and license than when he was a soccer player, Claudio Pizarro currently enjoys his hobbies and consolidates himself as a businessman in various fields. Among the passions that feed his soul are horses, golf and wine, not necessarily in that order, and he has found in Peruvian gastronomy a way to continue conquering other continents. The former attacker once had a farm in Argentina and today owns horses in Europe. “They are more to be able to enjoy and share with friends,” he explained a few months ago in dialogue with Cosas magazine, where he also dared to talk about his predilection for golf. “I play very often, and every time I have time I try to have fun and relax,” he noted, among other topics, such as his taste for wine and how he has expanded his knowledge on the subject with the help of friends and people he cultivates. Now, as it should, because “in order to develop the nose and palate, you have to drink a lot”, something that he could not do as a player. But perhaps his most ambitious project is the opening of a branch of the Osaka Miami restaurant, together with none other than Christian Meier. “It is important to make good investments. And since I also want to have fun and be close to Peru, I thought I would take advantage of the fact that Peruvian food is booming around the world,” he said about it.

Pizarro and the Fantastic Four

There was a schism: on the one hand, the Farfán-Guerrero, who continued for a while longer together in the post-Venezuela selection of the Gareca Era, on the other, the Pizarro-Vargas duo, who shared common friends until today. If one looks for images of the Markarian era in the Peruvian national team, it is impossible not to find a postcard of the ‘Fantastic Four’, Pizarro, Paolo Guerrero, Jefferson Farfán and Juan Manuel Vargas, our banners from that era of the ‘Blanquirroja’, but in At present no one has been able to see them together again. Only the former Fiorentina defender still maintains a close relationship with the ’14’, who considers ‘Loco’ as one of the friends that football left him. “After what happened with the doping, we did not have contact again, he did not communicate with me, I did not communicate with him, I would have loved to be able to talk to him, but we completely lost contact, today we do not talk anymore” Guerrero recently acknowledged, forgetting his mother’s strong statements against Pizarro after the suspension applied to him by FIFA.

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