IVAN LUIS ZAMARONA. OR ZAZA.

Ivan Luis Zamarona was afamous Chilean footballer. He is one of the very few footballers from Chile to make it into Peles list of 124 best footballers ever. He along with his strike partner Marcelo Salas , made their name , playing for big clubs in Europe. Salas was the first Chilean to make a name in Argentina playing for RiverPlate.While Ivan Zamarona plaayed mainly in Spain and Italy. He started with Sevillea and played from1990- 1992.
He then moved to Real Madrid and played fotr them from 1992- 1996. He made a big impact there along with Michel Ladrup who was brought from Barcelona in a way similar to that of Luis Figo under the table deed.
For Real Madrid he played a total of 137 games and scored 77 goals. He won the the spanish championship, and the Copa del Rey cup.
He then moved to the Italian giants Intermilan and played for themfrom 1996- 2000. It was at Intermilan that he played along such big footballers as Ronaldo, Diego Simone, Javier Zanetti, andYouri Djorkaeff. At Intermilan Zamarona wore the number 9 jersey. It was then that Ronaldo joined Intermilan and was given the famous no 9 jersey.. So Ivan Zamarona decided to wear a jersey with a funny number it was 1+8. which also made the number 9. This is probably the only time a jersey has had such a numer.
He played along Marcelo Salas in the 1998 world cup in France, and between them they scored more then half the goals scored by Chile.
He won the Ibero American player in the year 1992-1993-1994-1995. This award is given to players Spanish and Portugeese speaking country footballers only.
He also won the Pichichi award during his Real Madrid days.It is given to the top scorer in spains La liga..

ELIAS FIGUEROA, THE GREAT DEFENDER.

Elias Figueroa the famousChilean footballer was born on25/10/1946. His playing position was as a central back. He played his club football in Chile from the year1964 to 1982.
In Peles list of 125 best footballers ever played ,there are only two footballers from Chile in that list. They are Elias Figuueroa the defender and the sriker Ivan Zamarona.
He has played seventy times for Chile, and is considered their greatest defender ever.
He has also played in atotal of three world cups for Chile. They were the 1966 world cup, the 1974 world cup and 1982 world cup.