Claudio Pizarro vs Héctor Chumpitaz
Peru against Peru. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.
Claudio Pizarro
Peru · 2001–18 · SS
- Almanac rating
- 87
- Rank in Peru
- #9 of 33
- Caps
- 85 · 20 goals
- Clubs
- Club Alianza Lima, SV Werder Bremen, FC Bayern Munich
On the final day of the 2018/19 season, at 40 years and 227 days, he scored the 88th-minute winner against RB Leipzig and left the Bundesliga its oldest goalscorer. He won the Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and Club World Cup with Bayern in 2013, the Intercontinental Cup in 2001, six Bundesliga titles and five DFB-Pokals, plus a Pokal with Bremen, and finished with 197 Bundesliga goals in 490 games. Career record: 85 caps and 20 goals for Peru; club career at Club Alianza Lima, SV Werder Bremen, FC Bayern Munich.
Héctor Chumpitaz
Peru · 1970–78 · CB
- Almanac rating
- 90
- Rank in Peru
- #2 of 33
- Caps
- 105 · 3 goals
- Clubs
- Club Universitario de Deportes, Atlas, Club Sporting Cristal
Peru's captain for the better part of fifteen years, he led an all-star Americas XI out at the Camp Nou on 31 October 1973 against Europe's best, converted the equalising penalty, and left Barcelona with the name that stuck, Capitán de América. He won the Copa América in 1975, reached the quarter-finals of the 1970 World Cup and returned in 1978, and took five Peruvian titles at Universitario and three at Sporting Cristal across 105 caps. Career record: 105 caps and 3 goals for Peru; club career at Club Universitario de Deportes, Atlas, Club Sporting Cristal.
The verdict
The almanac puts Héctor Chumpitaz ahead by 3 rating points, 90 against 87.
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