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José Paolo Guerrero González (; born 1 January 1984) is a Peruvian professional
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who plays as a striker for
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club
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and the Peru national team. Known as one of the best Peruvian and South American strikers of his time, he was key to Peru's successes in the 2000s through 2010s, giving him the nickname, ''el Depredador'' (the Predator). "A legend in South American football" for the ''New York Times'', he has been Peru's most important football player for two decades. Forging his career in Germany, Guerrero started at giants
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, before making his name at
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, scoring 47 goals across eight
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seasons. His greatest successes came in Brazil, where he scored the winning goal of the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup final for
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. With 40 goals in 128 matches for Peru since debuting at 20, Guerrero holds the honour of being the highest goalscorer for his national team. He has represented them at six Copas América and one
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. He led them to third place in the
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and
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Copas, and to runners-up in
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, finishing as top scorer in all three of these tournaments. He is also the top scoring active player in the
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. He was one of 59 nominees for the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or, becoming the first Peruvian to receive that recognition. He's also the oldest Peruvian player to appear in a World Cup, at the age of 34 years and 177 days. In 2021, the
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included Guerrero in their best South American team of the last decade, being recognized as the best South American center forward between 2010 and 2020 (joining the podium with
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and
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). In addition, he was voted the "best centre forward in America" in 2012 and 2017 by the newspaper ''
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'', based on the opinion of some two hundred journalists from the region. He has also been named included by
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in the teams of the tournament for the 2011, 2015 and 2019 Copas América.


Club career


Early career

Guerrero was born in
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, starting his football career in the youth teams of
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. In 2003, he signed a contract with
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n giants
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. During the 2003–04 season, Guerrero played in the Regionalliga Süd where he scored 21 goals in 23 games. During the 2004–05 season, he joined fellow countryman
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as a member of the Bayern first team.


Bayern Munich

At the beginning of 2002, after rejecting an offer from
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of Belgium,
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of Germany announced his incorporation to the second team. This signing led to a conflict between
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and Bayern. The case was raised to
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, which decided that the German club should pay for training rights since, although Guerrero had a formal contract with Alianza, it was not of a professional nature. Once the problem was solved, Guerrero began playing with Bayern Munich II in the Regionalliga South, which at that time was the third division of German football. On May 30, 2004 he was crowned champion in this category. At the team level, he played his first game with the Bayern professional team on October 23, 2004 against
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.with the number "33", while his first goal in the Bundesliga was scored against
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. In total, Guerrero spent four seasons at Bayern Munich, alternating the last two in the first team, the same team with which he scored ten goals in the
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and two in the
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. In June 2006 he left Bayern Munich. His destination was
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, a club with which he signed a four-year contract.


Hamburger SV

In June 2006, it was announced that Guerrero had transferred to
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and signed a contract with the club through 2010. His first season was marred by an injury, which took away half his season, and his low productivity, being a subsitute most of the season. Near the end, he did score three goals, making his season total 5 goals in 20 games. One of these goals was against former club Bayern Munich in a 1–2 victory which left Bayern with no possibilities of making it to the
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. In the 2007–08 season, his second at Hamburg, Guerrero played 29 of 34 games in the
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, scoring nine goals and getting four assists, as well as becoming an undisputed starter and a vital part of the side; he was the third top scorer, behind
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(12 goals) and
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(14 goals). In the
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and qualification, he played nine games, scoring five goals and getting three assists. His first
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in his professional career was against
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, in the last game of the Bundesliga, scoring the second, third, and fourth goals in a 7–0 victory. This victory secured them fourth place and a UEFA Cup spot for next season. By the beginning of the 2008–09 season, Guerrero had become first choice striker for Hamburger SV. Coach
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even went as far as saying that Guerrero better not catch even a cold during the season. Guerrero was fined a club record (somewhere in the region of €50,000–100,000), in April 2010 for an incident at the end of a league game with
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, where after apparently having been abused by a Hamburg fan, Guerrero threw his drink bottle into the crowd, striking that fan in the face. The
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(DFB) suspended Guerrero for five league games and fined him €20,000.


Corinthians

Guerrero joined Brazilian club
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on 13 July 2012, on a three-year deal for a fee of R$7.5 million. On 25 July 2012, he made his debut in a match against Cruzeiro in the 2012 Brasileiro Série A, where Corinthians won 2–0. His debut in the "Timao" attracted the immediate attention of the Peruvian media to
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. In the 26th round of the Brasileiro, he played against
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and scored his first goal for his team. Guerrero grew in the later rounds of the Brazilian championship, scoring several goals that secured his place in the team's starting lineup. On November 27, 2012, days before embarking to Japan to compete in the
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, the athlete was honored by the Peruvian consulate in Brazil "in recognition of his sporting merits and professionalism, showing all the high values of Peruvian sport in Brazil and being considered as a starter in most of the matches played." It was at the
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where Guerrero would make his most historic performance with Corinthians. On December 12, 2012, in the semifinals of the tournament against
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of Egypt, Guerrero scored the only goal of the match with a header that took Corinthians to the final. On 16 December 2012, in the Club World Cup final against
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winners Chelsea, Guerrero scored, again with a header, to give Corinthians the title of World Champions at club level. Paolo Guerrero was awarded the Bronze Ball as the third top goalscorer of the tournament. In May 2013, Guerrero became the first Peruvian footballer to appear on the cover of ''
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'', Brazil's biggest football magazine. The cover featured him as a warrior ("''guerrero''" is similar to the Portuguese word "''guerreiro''", both meaning "warrior") fresh out of battle, with blood on his legs, and carrying a Corinthians flag. In July 2013, Corinthians won the 2013 Recopa Sudamericana, defeating city rivals
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4–1 on aggregate. Guerrero scored in the first leg, a 2–1 away win. At the end of the year, Guerrero ended up consecrated as his team's top scorer in the season by scoring 18 goals in 46 games and winning 2 titles. He was awarded as the best striker of the Brasileirao in the 2014 season. On March 17, 2015, Guerrero became the foreign player who scored the most goals for Corinthians, with 47 goals, surpassing Argentina's
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who scored 46 goals. The record was obtained in a match against the Uruguayan club
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for the third round of the second phase of the
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. In that match he was the great figure by scoring his first hat trick with Corinthians, the match ended 4-0 in favor of ''Coringao''. Guerrero became the top scorer of the post-relegation era, breaking the record that previously belonged to Dentinho. In 2015, Guerrero and Corinthians were not able to reach a deal on the renegotiation of his contract, due to end on 15 July. Corinthians fans asked for his permanence and subsequent retirement at the club, since they considered him an idol and his contract ended in the middle of the year. But after being eliminated by Guaraní from the Copa Libertadores, finally, in June it was confirmed that Paolo would no longer continue in Corinthians for not reaching an economic agreement for his renewal. His last game for Corinthians was against
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on 24 May. Corinthians confirmed his release three days later.


Flamengo

It was announced on 29 May 2015, that Guerrero would join
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after performing well for
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at the
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in Chile, where Peru achieved Third place. He traveled to
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just one day after returning in Peru from the tournament. On 9 July 2015, having trained only one morning with the 'Mengão', he debuts in the evening against Internacional, scoring a goal and providing an assist for a goal, sentenced a streak of 5 goals in less than 2 weeks, with which he would win the admiration of the Carioca fans, who created the anthem 'Acabou o caô. O Guerrero chegou' in his honor. Guerrero started 2017 season by scoring a brace at the
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, scoring the first and third goals in Flamengo's 4-1 win over Boavista on the first date of the group stage of the tournament, his compatriot
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would also be present to score ''Mengao's'' second goal. In the final, Flamengo lost to Fluminense. In the 2017 Campeonato Carioca, Guerrero scored both of Flamengo's goals in a 2–1 semi-final win over
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leading Flamengo to the final. In the final, Guerrero scored a goal for Flamengo's temporary 1-1 against
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. In extra time,
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would score the winning goal for Flamengo to be crowned champion of the tournament, this would be the first title that Guerrero won since his arrival at the club. Paolo Guerrero was consecrated as the top scorer with 10 in 11 games goals and was distinguished as the best player of the tournament being included in the ideal 11. After his suspension for testing positive in anti-doping control, he returns to the field on 7 May 2018 in a match against Internacional which ended in a 2-0 victory. However, on May 13 he scored his first goal of the season against Chapecoense after a drought of 7 games without scoring, the CAS increased his suspension, which would mean he would miss the rest of the season until his return on July 18 against
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. During his suspension in 2017, Flamengo lost the
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final, with his suspension contributing to the loss. Although he was greeted with enthusiasm, he has not scored since his second return. This complicated his chances of renewing, since sectors of the fans were very dissatisfied with his performance on the field and even off it. Finally, when his contract expired, he signed for Internacional.


Internacional

On 12 August 2018, Guerrero signed with S.C. Internacional on a three-year contract, after leaving Flamengo on a free transfer. He was given the number 79, to commemorate the last time Inter won the Campeonato Brasileiro. However, days before he was to debut, on 24 August, his FIFA ban was upheld, preventing him from playing his first match until April 2019. In 2019, Guerrero's number changed from 79 to 9, due to the departure of
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. After his ban expired, Guerrero finally made his debut for Inter in the
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against Caxias, on 6 April, scoring in the 2–0 semi-final win. His
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debut came against
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of Chile, a match where he scored twice. Guerrero ended the 2019 season as the teams top goalscorer, with 20 goals in 41 games. In the midst of a goal drought of several weeks and rumors that he would be declared transferable, journalist Eduardo de Conto reported that Guerrero asked the board to terminate his contract to treat a knee injury. This was confirmed on 26 October 2021, when Inter released him on a "mutual agreement" to treat the alleged injury that had afflicted him since August last year.


Avaí

On 21 July 2022, Guerrero joined
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side
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for the remainder of the 2022 season. On 5 November 2022, Avaí got relegated to the Série B, being the first time team that Guerrero has played for that got relegated. Guerrero play 10 games with Avaí but did not score any goals.


Racing Club

On 24 January 2023, Guerrero signed for
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side Racing Club. He scored his first goal on 22 February in the 89th minute against San Martín de Formosa in a
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match.


LDU Quito

On 14 July 2023, Guerrero signed for
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of Ecuador. On 3 August 2023, he made his debut away with LDU against
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scoring the winning goal in the 60th minute of play, with the match ending 1-0 in favor of the Ecuadorian team. He would score again on 27 September against
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in the first leg of the
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semifinal. Finally, in this same tournament Guerrero with LDU managed to beat
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via penalties despite having missed the first penalty of their team. He thus became the first Peruvian in history to win the Copa Sudamericana with a foreign club. He scored 3 goals in 7 games. He won the
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scoring 5 goals in 15 games played, most of his goals were scored at the end of the tournament. He decided not to renew with the Ecuadorian club after learning that manager Zubeldía would not continue and ran the risk of not playing as a starter anymore.


Universidad César Vallejo

In a controversial decision due to Guerrero's age, Roberto Mosquera would sign to play for Universidad César Vallejo for the 2024 Liga 1 on 2 February 2024. On his debut against
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, Paolo scored his first goal for the club in a 2-2 draw at home. Guerrero left the club after his mother was targeted for extortion by a local criminal gang.Issued 07/05/2024
Crime deterring return of South American footballers
''France 24.''
The separation was amicable with club president César Acuña promising the club would fulfil Guerrero's wish.


Alianza Lima

On 1 September 2024, Guerrero returned to Alianza Lima. He scored his first goal back at the club on 21 September 2024, against
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. On 22 April 2025, Guerrero became the oldest player to score two goals in the
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, scoring against Talleres.


International career

Guerrero's national career began at the
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where he won gold with the U-17 squad. His career with the senior team began in the unsuccessful 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign, but he managed to score twice for the national side. His first goal was the winner against
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in Lima's Estadio Nacional. It was followed by a first-minute goal in the next match against
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at the same venue, though the Ecuadorians fought back to secure a 2–2 away draw. In the opening game of the
2007 Copa América The 2007 Campeonato Sudamericano Copa América, known simply as the 2007 Copa América or 2007 Copa América Venezuela, was the 42nd edition of the Copa América, the South-American championship for international association football teams. The c ...
in Mérida, Venezuela, Guerrero concluded a 3–0 win over
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as Peru went on to reach the quarter-finals.


2011 Copa América

Guerrero was ruled out of Peru's first two
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qualifying games because of injury. A further blow to Peru was laid down by
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when Guerrero was suspended six games for insulting the referee during the match against
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in June 2008. Following Peru's disastrous qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup,
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was replaced with Uruguayan manager
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and Guerrero was called up for the
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. In place of an injured Pizarro, Guerrero played as the team's starting striker in the competition and scored five times, making him the tournament's top scorer, one each against Uruguay and
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followed by a
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against
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in the
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match which Peru won 4–1.


2015 Copa América and Copa América Centenario

At the
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held in Chile, Guerrero scored a hat-trick in a 3–1 win against
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in the quarter-final in
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. He scored the second goal in Peru's 2–0 win over Paraguay in the
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, thus helping Peru to third place at the Copa América for a second consecutive time and finishing as joint top-goalscorer with Chile's Eduardo Vargas. Guerrero became the all-time leading goalscorer for Peru on 4 June 2016, after scoring against
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in a 1–0 win at the
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.


Lead-up to the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Guerrero made 17 appearances and scored five goals in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, leading the Peru team in their successful World Cup qualifying campaign.Burke, Elias (16 Marzo 2024)
The wild career of Paolo Guerrero – failed drugs test, Inca mummies and captaining Peru at 40
''The New York Times.''
On 3 November 2017, it was announced that Guerrero had failed the doping control test after the match against Argentina in the previous month for what was initially reported as a ''social drug''. He received a preemptive 30-day suspension from
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, making him miss the World Cup play-off tie against
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, eventually won by Peru. On 8 December 2017, it was revealed that Guerrero had tested positive for
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, the primary metabolite of
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. As a result, he was banned by FIFA from all competitions for one year, meaning that he would not have been able to participate in the
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. The ban was reduced on appeal 12 days later. Guerrero's lawyers had argued that the failed test had occurred as a result of the consumption of a traditional
coca tea Coca tea, also called mate de coca, is a herbal tea (infusion) made using the raw or dried leaves of the cocaine-containing coca plant, which is native to South America. It is made either by submerging the coca leaf or dipping a tea bag in hot wa ...
, using forensic analysis of the
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as evidence. However, on 14 May 2018, the
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upheld the appeal filed by the
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, extending the ban to 14 months and ruling him out of the tournament. It accepted that Guerrero did not intend to enhance performance but said he was at fault, even if not significantly. Captains of Peru's group-stage competitors,
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(France), Simon Kjaer (Denmark) and
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(Australia) supported Guerrero's appeal and released a letter urging FIFA to lift the ban. On 31 May 2018, it was announced Guerrero would be allowed to play at the
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after the Swiss Federal Tribunal lifted the ban for the tournament. On 3 June 2018, Guerrero made his comeback after a seven-month absence from the national team scoring twice in the 3–0 friendly win against
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. A 2018 report of investigative journalists of German broadcasting station ARD revealed doping practices in Brazil, involving physician Mohamad Barakat who reportedly treated Guerrero and who had already posed with him many years ago.


2018 FIFA World Cup

Guerrero made his World Cup debut on 16 June 2018, coming off the bench in the 1–0 loss to
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. On 26 June, he assisted
André Carrillo André Martín Carrillo Díaz (born 14 June 1991) is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Corinthians and the Peru national team. He is nicknamed ''La Culebra'' (The Sna ...
's goal, which was Peru's first World Cup goal in 36 years, and scored the second goal in Peru's 2–0 win over
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, in the team's final group match, as his side suffered a first-round exit from the competition. At the age of 34 and 177 days, he became the oldest Peruvian player to appear in a FIFA World Cup.


2019 Copa América

In May 2019, Guerrero was included in
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's final 23-man squad for the
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in Brazil. He scored the opening goal in Peru's second group game of the tournament on 18 June – a 3–1 victory over Bolivia. In the semi-finals against defending champions Chile on 3 July, Guerrero scored the final goal of a 3–0 win, which saw Peru advance to the final of the tournament for the first time since
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. In the 2019 Copa América Final against hosts
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on 7 July, at the
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, Guerrero scored the temporary equaliser from the penalty spot in the first half; the match eventually ended in a 3–1 victory to Brazil. Guerrero finished the tournament as the top scorer with 3 goals, alongside Brazil's
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, who won the Golden Boot Award due to having played fewer minutes than the Peruvian throughout the tournament.


Late career

On 11 October 2019, Guerrero made his 100th international appearance for Peru in a friendly match against
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. Guerrero announced his retirement from international football on 7 January 2025, with 124 appearances and 39 goals scored. But on 9 March 2025 he came out of retirement and accepted a call back from the new Peruvian Head Coach
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for the upcoming qualifiers against
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and
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, and scored his 40th goal in a 3-1 victory over
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.


Sponsorship

Paolo Guerrero has a global partnership with
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and is their exclusive Global Casino Ambassador to "further strengthen Betsson’s presence in Latin America and solidifying Betsson as the most exciting brand in the industry."


Personal life

Guerrero has a
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. Media reports claim his fear of flying is due to the death of his uncle
José González Ganoza José Manuel González Ganoza (10 July 1954 – 8 December 1987), sometimes known as Caíco, was a Peruvian international footballer who played as a goalkeeper. González Ganoza was among the victims of the 1987 Alianza Lima air disaster. His ...
in the
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. Guerrero's older brother, Julio Rivera, was also a footballer for the Peru national team who progressed through the Alianza Lima youth system. The brothers were both following in the path of their uncle who had represented Alianza Lima and the Peru national team before them. Guerrero is
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. His nephew, also named Julio Rivera, was found dead from a robbery in
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in 2019. Guerrero held his death with sorrow and honor to his late nephew. In 2024, his mother was targeted for extortion by gangs. In 2016, the film
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was released, featuring Paolo Guerrero and the story of his rise to success. On 5 October 2022,
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released Paolo Guerrero's series, ''Contigo capitán'' (The Fight for Justice: Paolo Guerrero in English) showing the story of Guerrero's false doping leading up to the
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.


Career statistics


Club


International


Honours

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: 2004–05, 2005–06 *
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: 2004–05, 2005–06 Hamburger SV *
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Corinthians *
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:
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:
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*
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:
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Flamengo *
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Internacional *
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runner-up:
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LDU Quito *
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:
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Peru U17 *
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Peru *
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runner-up:
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; third-place:
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,
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Individual *
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Top Scorer:
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,
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,
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, who also scored 3 goals at the 2019 Copa América, was given the top-scorer award, as he played fewer minutes than Guerrero
* Copa América Team of the Tournament:
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,
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*
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Bronze Ball:
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* FIFA Club World Cup Best Forward:
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*
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Best Forward:
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* Campeonato Paulista Team of the Tournament:
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Best Player:
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Top Scorer:
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2014 Campeonato Paulista The 2014 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1 (officially the 2014 Paulistão Chevrolet for sponsorship reasons) was the 113th season of São Paulo's top professional football league. Ituano became the cha ...
: Top Foreign Scorer in Corinthians history * Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Team of the Year:
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
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Campeonato Carioca The Campeonato Carioca (Carioca Championship), officially known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro State Championship), also commonly known as the Cariocão, is the top-flight professional state football league in the Br ...
Team of the Year:
2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
* IFFHS CONMEBOL team of the decade 2011–2020


See also

* List of footballers with 100 or more caps


References


External links

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Paolo Guerrero profile
at Flamengo {{DEFAULTSORT:Guerrero, Paolo 1984 births Living people Footballers from Lima Peruvian Roman Catholics Peruvian men's footballers 21st-century Peruvian sportsmen Men's association football forwards Club Alianza Lima footballers FC Bayern Munich II players FC Bayern Munich footballers Hamburger SV players Sport Club Corinthians Paulista players CR Flamengo footballers SC Internacional players Avaí FC players Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers L.D.U. Quito footballers Club Deportivo Universidad César Vallejo footballers Regionalliga players Bundesliga players Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Argentine Primera División players Ecuadorian Serie A players Peruvian Primera División players Peru men's youth international footballers Peru men's international footballers 2007 Copa América players 2011 Copa América players 2015 Copa América players Copa América Centenario players 2018 FIFA World Cup players 2019 Copa América players 2024 Copa América players FIFA Men's Century Club Peruvian expatriate men's footballers Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina Expatriate men's footballers in Ecuador Peruvian sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in association football Copa Sudamericana–winning players Bolivarian Games gold medalists for Peru Bolivarian Games medalists in football