Today is March 22, 1978, the famous Argentine defender Walter Samuel was born in Philmatt, Santa Fe, Argentina. Samuel became famous at the Italian club Roma, where he played steadily and defensively, earning him the nickname "the wall" and chinese fans referring to him as "The Rock". The Rock spent his career playing for Newell Old Boys, Boca Juniors, Roma, Real Madrid and Inter Milan before retiring from Basel, Switzerland, on 26 May 2016.
In 1996, at the age of 18, Samuel was given his first chance to play in the professional league, and the nearly 100-year-old But honorable Newell Old Guys gave the young Samuel a chance. In the talented Argentine team at the 1997 World Youth Championships in Malaysia, the unpretentious rock was a big gate in the team's backline, and Boca's timely capture of Samuel from Newells also fulfilled a series of myths between him and Riquelme at the Copa Libertadores. Boca Juniors in the late 1990s was at the peak of another peak in team history. Under the leadership of the famous coach Bianchi, Riquelme, Palermo and Abang Danchiyeri and others jointly forged boca's dynastic years, and it was Samuel who was not yet a weak champion in the back line. The Argentine league titles of 1998 and 1999, as well as the Copa Libertadores in the millennium, recorded the glory days of the South American giants and the youth of Samuel. Two A-league titles and one Copa Libertadores are Samuel's fond memories of the Candy Box Stadium.
Since the 1990 World Cup, a large number of Argentine players have begun to land in the Serie A, known as the "Minor World Cup", and Batistuta, Belon and Crespo have all written their own legends on the Apennine Peninsula. At the turn of the century, in 2000, the 22-year-old Samuel also crossed the ocean to continue the legend of his predecessors. He joined Roma, who were sixth in the league in the 1999-00 season and were left 18 points behind by their city rivals.
In the summer of 2000, Capello, the gold medal coach who coached Roma into the "second season", began to recruit heavily. In that era of Serie A powerhouse spending so much money, Rome spent $20 million to buy Samuel was not even a huge deal, and what really drove the city of Rome crazy in July was the $35 million "God of War" Batistuta settled at the Olympic Stadium.
The following 2000-01 season was destined to be unforgettable for all Red Wolves fans. From the beginning, Roma showed a strong championship-winning temperament, and finally realized its dream with 22 wins, 9 draws and 3 losses. Batistuta, Totti and Montella, who have contributed nearly 50 goals together, are certainly outstanding, but Samuel, who played as a drag-back center-back in the defensive "three-back system", was also indispensable, and in the case that the partners Aldar, Zago, Zebina and others were not so stable, "Rock" supported the Roma defense for those years with a one-man and unsatisfactory performance. On June 17, 2001, at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, when thousands of fans poured into the stadium to celebrate the 18-year league championship, the newcomer Samuel received heroic courtesy, and he was also known as the unshakable "rock" of the Roma defense with his accurate card position, decisive interception and strong header ability. During his time at Roma, Samuel had 1 Serie A title and 1 Italian Super Cup.
In Samuel's four seasons with Roma, except for the 2002-03 season, which collapsed to eighth place in the league and conceded a whopping 46 goals, the red wolves were among the top three in the league in the remaining seasons. In the final season before bidding farewell to Roma, Samuel and his teammates set a legendary record of conceding just 19 goals in 38 rounds.
However, after the crazy expansion at the beginning of the century, Rome's financial crisis gradually began to emerge. In the summer of 2004, when La Liga giants Real Madrid, eager to improve their defensive standards, handed out a check for 25 million euros, Roma knew that they could not keep Samuel, who had become a superstar. The Rocks traveled south from the Apennines to the Iberian Peninsula and became one of the most sensational transfers of the summer. And one statistic best reflects the importance of Samuel to the Roma defense - in the 2004-05 season after his departure, the Red Wolves scored 58 goals in 38 league rounds, and the total goal difference of the season was -3!
The years of Real Madrid have been hardly for Samuel, a super-magnate that has always put attack and performance first, and has ruined the reputation of countless excellent centre-backs in the past decade. Samuel, who had high hopes, unfortunately became one of them. Although samuel retained his main position in a season at the Bernabeu and occasionally used his good headers to destroy the team, more often than not, he was alone in the face of the opponent's crazy attack, and then he was embarrassed. Lafayette's "Zidane + Pavin" policy almost destroyed Samuel I's name.
Just one season later, Real Madrid are once again empty of all three, with both the team and Sam El himself not hopeful about their respective prospects. At this time, another figure who changed Samuel's fate appeared- Mancini, a former sworn enemy of the same city. In order to create a great career at Inter Milan, the young marshal with a strong Lazio background recommended signing Samuel for 16 million euros and immediately entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.
Samuel made a total of 226 appearances for the team during his 8 years at Inter, scoring 15 goals as a centre-back, winning 5 Serie A titles, 3 Coppa Italia, 4 Italian Super Cups, 1 Champions League and 1 Club World Cup. In 2010, the "Nerazzurri" under the leadership of Mourinho, bravely won the Champions League, Serie A and the Italian Cup, setting a "treble" feat, Samuel once again ushered in the peak moment of his career, he and Lucio formed a defensive line partner attack and defense, especially the Champions League out of camp Nou, in nearly 1 hour to play 1 less difficult situation, tenaciously defended the first leg of 3-1 victory, worthy of a big book, but also wrote his name into the history of the team.
For all football teenagers born in the Pampas, wearing a blue and white stripe and representing Argentina in the World Series is definitely the ultimate dream. Samuel, who became famous at a young age, also participated in the U20 World Cup with Argentina as early as the summer of 1997, and won the championship trophy with future superstars such as Riquelme, Cambiasso and Aimar. Two years after his return to the World Youth Championships, Samuel was called up for the national team for the first time at the age of 21 and became a member of this glorious team. At the 2002 World Cup, Samuel, who was at the peak of his career, also undoubtedly went out with the team, and the "rock" wearing the No. 6 shirt was full in three group games, but he was unable to prevent the tragedy of Argentina's early exit.
By the time of the 2006 World Cup, Samuel had just completed a successful season at Inter Milan, the Argentine national team was strong, the players were at their peak, but the then Argentine national team coach Peckerman was nepotistic, in order to highlight the absolute authority of Riquelme and Solin, two love generals in the team, unexpectedly gave up a number of big stars, Inter Milan's "barbecue gang" bore the brunt of it, and he also had inter teammate Zanetti, the absence of two defensive superstars, replacing the "double Sass" Scaloni and Heinze, who entered the main squad, were repeatedly blown up by opponents, and since then it has been considered to be an important reason for Argentina's dream of breaking the quarterfinals.
Four years on, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is in sight, and although the 32-year-old Samuel has entered the big list due to the high voice of the domestic public, he is getting farther and farther away from the main lineup of blue and white stripes that haunts his dreams. After Maradona became the manager of the national team, he would rather choose a rookie like Otamendi, or a parallel cargo like Burdisso, or a veteran of Demichelis, who had just been blown up by Samuel's team in the Champions League final, and was determined not to give Samuel a chance to start. In the end, Argentina was bloodbathed by Germany 4-0 in the quarter-finals, and the dream of the World Cup became a dream of yellow sorghum again for "Rock"...
On 26 May 2016, basel faced grasshoppers in the Swiss Premier League, and 38-year-old Argentine defender Samuel completed the final battle of his career and officially announced his retirement.
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