JOSE MARCELOS SALAS OR SASA.

Jose Marcelos Salas was a famous Chilean footballer. He played along another famous Chilean striker called Ivan Zamarona. The pair were called SASA and ZAZA.
He was born in the Chilean city of Temco , on24/12.1974.
He joined the Argentinan giants called River Plate. He did not get a warm welcome in Argentina , because till that day no Chilean footballer had done wll or shone in Argentinas football club. Even the the great Diego Maradona was critical of the move. But Salaswho then finaly joined River Plate from 1996 to 1998.
Actually Salas was scouted by the old rival of River Plate , it was the club Boco Juniors.
Salas was going to do one thing well when he joined the club , he would let his football do thetalking for him.
Salas was the clubs great contibutor in goals , to make the years between 1996- 1998 very special years ,as they were the Argentinan football champions. He scored a total of 26 goals in 51 games
Salas and Zamarona helped Chile qualify for the 1998 world cup in France. And he also scored four goals for Chile in the world cup. It was because of Salas and Zamarona that Chile reached the second round in France.
In the year 1998Salas wassold to the then Italian giants Lazio. Now Lazio hadnot won the Italian scudetto since 1973-1974 season. Salas played for five years at Lazio , during that time lazio won the scudetto cup, a Europen super cup and also the Italian cup in2001 and a cup winners cup.
He was sold to the Italian giants Juventus ,but sadly he got injured and had a very bad time there he scored only a total of two goals in fourteen games and was sold back to River Plate in Argentina for a sum of 12 million dollars, or10 million euros.
. But the knee problem came back to trouble him , so in the year 2005 he returned to Chile.To club where he had first started called UNIVERIDAD DE CHILE. In 2006 he led the club to the final but lost out in a penalty shootout.
He still has a desire to play for the Chilean team.For which he has scored 35 goals in65 games
He now owns athird division club called CLUB UNION TEMUCOO.