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Walter Samuel
Personal information
Full name Wálter Adrián Luján-Samuel
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Centre Back
Team information
Current team
 Internazionale
Number 25
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1997 Newell's Old Boys 37 (0)
1997–2000 Boca Juniors 75 (4)
2000–2004 Roma 122 (9)
2004–2005 Real Madrid 30 (2)
2005– Internazionale 93 (8)
International career‡
1999– Argentina 53 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 Aug 2008
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 Aug 2008

Wálter Adrián Samuel (born Wálter Adrián Luján on 23 March 1978 in Firmat, Santa Fe Province) is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for Italian Serie A club Internazionale.

Club career

Samuel started playing professionally in 1996 in Argentina for Newell's Old Boys, and a year later moved to Boca Juniors where he stayed until 2000. In that year, Roma bought his contract. He gained fame as one of the best defenders in the Italian league and attracted interest from Spanish team Real Madrid.

Real paid €25 million for his transfer in 2004.[1] But Samuel had a poor performance that season, and in August 2005, he returned to the Italian League with a transfer to Internazionale on a four year contract for reported €16 million. [2]

Walter Samuel

The centre back got the nickname of "The Wall" while playing for Roma in Italy, due to his defensive skills. In the Milan Derby on 23 December 2007, he hurt himself whilst marking superstar Kaká, and a couple weeks later, he had reconstructive surgery on his medial cruciate ligament. He was expected to be out until the end of the 2007-08 season. In actuality, he started training with the first team again in October of the 2008-09 season, and promptly earned a first team place back under Mourinho. Since the signing of Lúcio, he has also partnered him at the heart of Inter's defence.

International career

Samuel has played 53 matches for Argentina, scoring four goals. He played for his country in the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan.

Career statistics

Season Club Games Goals
2009/2010 F.C. Internazionale 20 2
2008/2009 F.C. Internazionale 17 1
2007/2008 F.C. Internazionale 12 0
2006/2007 F.C. Internazionale 18 3
2005/2006 F.C. Internazionale 27 2
2004/2005 Real Madrid 30 2
2003/2004 AS Roma 30 1
2002/2003 AS Roma 31 2
2001/2002 AS Roma 30 5
2000/2001 AS Roma 31 1
1999/2000 Boca Juniors 29 2
1998/1999 Boca Juniors 34 2
1997/1998 Boca Juniors 12 0
1994/1997 Newell's Old Boys 37 0

Honours

Personal life

The son of a single mother, he was born under the name of Walter Luján but decided to change his mother's surname for his stepfather's surname when he was a teenager.[3]

He has a daughter and two sons with his wife Cecilia.[4]

References

  1. ^ PERFEZIONATO IL CONTRATTO DI TRASFERIMENTO DEL CALCIATORE SAMUEL
  2. ^ "Inter complete Samuel signing publisher = uefa.com". 2005-08-01. Retrieved 2007-07-18. {{cite news}}: Missing pipe in: |title= (help); line feed character in |title= at position 30 (help)
  3. ^ "EL JUVENIL LUJÁN QUE ASOMBRÓ A ARGENTINA" - Diario AS Template:Es icon
  4. ^ "Congratulations to the Samuel family". Inter.it. 2008-11-15. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
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