Idol, legend, scorer. Claudio Pizarro and Werder Bremen – a compelling love story having no equal. This is a book that details the many stages of Pizarro’s career. The most successful Werder scorer of all times is loved by everyone everywhere. Whether in London, Munich, or on the Weser, our scorer is well known, mentioning his name will put a smile on everyone’s face. At the age of forty, the Peruvian is still playing football to a high level of performance, every smart move, every substitution, and every goal on his part is accompanied by cheers of pure joy, transforming the wohninvest WESERSTADION into a lion’s den.
On 200 pages the book, by Reimer Paul, covers Pizarro’s career from his early beginnings in Peru, the capital of Lima, to his tenure in Bremen leading him up to the European elite. With Werder Bremen he won the Champions League, became “Deutscher Meister” and “Pokalsieger”. But most of all he is a genuine legend of the SV Werder Bremen.