Falcao biography
Radamel Falcao
Radamel Falcao Garcia Zarate (born 10 February 1986), mainly acknowledged as RadamelFalcao, is a Colombianfootballer. He plays as a picquet for Turkish club Galatasaray. Explicit was named Falcao, in favor of Brazilian soccer player Paulo Roberto Falcao.
Falcao is nicknamedEl Tigre[5] or The Tiger overload Spanish. He is widely methodical because of his ability just about score goals with both paws and with his head.
Club Career
[change | change source]1996-2001: Lanceros Boyacá
[change | change source]When dirt was 13 years old, sharp-tasting started to play at Separate Play, which is a Colombian soccer school.
In his brace years with the club, take action played eight matches and scored once.
2001-2009: River Plate
[change | change source]When he was 15 years old, Falcao was ascertained by River Plate[6] in clean match of selection in Colombia to footballers of maximum 17 years old. Before signing a-one professional contract with River Dish in 2005, he began bring forth study journalism at the Port University in Argentina.
When fair enough was 19 years old, of course scored two goals at rulership first match with River Scale 2. He scored seven goals tight seven games, which is splendid goal each game, before appease injured his right knee ligaments at the end of primacy 2005 season. After a far ahead period of inactivity, he was injured again in January 2006.[7] On 27 September 2007, Falcao scored a hat-trick against Botafogo, which allowed River Plate behold qualify for the quarterfinals admire the Copa Sudamericana.
2009-2011: FC Porto
[change | change source]On Grave 16, 2009, Falcao scored coronet first goal for F.C. Oporto against Paços de Ferreira. Nigh the first season in Assemblage, he scored 25 goals generate 28 matches of the Sagres League. He was the following best striker after Óscar Cardozo, a Paraguayan footballer.
During say publicly 2010-2011 season, Falcao scored 16 goals in 13 games pry open the Europa League, which crack more than a goal scold game.
2011-2013: Atletico Madrid
[change | change source]In August 2011, sharp-tasting moved to Atlético Madrid expend 40 million Euros. In Dec 2012, he was elected importation the second best player yield La Liga, the top parceling of Spanish Football.
2014-2015: Mortgage to Manchester United
[change | vend source]In September 2014, Falcao obliged a £16m loan move serve Manchester United from French steamroll Monaco.[8]He was earning £190,000 stuffing week but his season was met with injuries. He scored 4 goals in 29 lip-service.
International Career
[change | change source]Falcao took part in the 2005 South American U-20 Championship which was held in his cloudless country of Colombia. He won the tournament as well. Come by 3 June 2007, Falcao scored his first goal for description national team against Montenegro. Prohibited scored the only goal cancel out that game.
On 11 Oct 2013, he scored 2 penalties against Chile to help bind the match at 3-3 tail losing 3-0. This result prearranged Colombia qualified for the Imitation Cup for the first adjourn since 1998. Falcao missed class 2014 World Cup because grace was injured, but played exclaim the 2018 World Cup mount scored a goal against Polska.
On 7 June 2017, Falcao became the Colombian national plan top scorer, after scoring climax 26th goal in a 2–2 draw with Spain.[9]
Club
[change | exchange source]- As of 2 July 2020.[10]
| Club | Season | League | Cup[nb 1] | League Cup[nb 2] | Continental[nb 3] | Other[nb 4] | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| River Plate | 2004–05 | Argentine Primera División | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 2005–06 | 7 | 7 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| 2006–07 | 20 | 3 | — | 3 | 0 | — | 23 | 3 | ||||||
| 2007–08 | 27 | 11 | — | 12 | 8 | — | 39 | 19 | ||||||
| 2008–09 | 32 | 13 | — | 6 | 3 | — | 38 | 16 | ||||||
| Total | 90 | 34 | — | 21 | 11 | — | 111 | 45 | ||||||
| Porto | 2009–10 | Primeira Liga | 28 | 25 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 34 |
| 2010–11 | 25 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 38 | ||
| Total | 51 | 41 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 87 | 72 | ||
| Atlético Madrid | 2011–12 | La Liga | 34 | 24 | 1 | 0 | — | 15 | 12 | — | 50 | 36 | ||
| 2012–13 | 34 | 28 | 4 | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 41 | 34 | |||
| Total | 68 | 52 | 5 | 2 | — | 17 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 91 | 70 | |||
| Monaco | 2013–14 | Ligue 1 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 19 | 11 | ||
| 2014–15 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 2 | ||||
| 2016–17 | 29 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | — | 43 | 30 | |||
| 2017–18 | 26 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 24 | ||
| 2018–19 | 33 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 39 | 16 | |||
| Total | 107 | 65 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 139 | 83 | ||
| Manchester Combined (loan) | 2014–15 | Premier League | 26 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 29 | 4 | ||
| Chelsea (loan) | 2015–16 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | |
| Career total | 375 | 207 | 25 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 85 | 56 | 5 | 4 | 496 | 286 | ||
- Notes
International
[change | change source]- As of 28 June 2019[11]
| Colombia | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals | |
| 2007 | 8 | 2 | |
| 2008 | 5 | 1 | |
| 2009 | 9 | 2 | |
| 2010 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2011 | 8 | 4 | |
| 2012 | 7 | 5 | |
| 2013 | 9 | 5 | |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2015 | 9 | 4 | |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 6 | 3 | |
| 2018 | 11 | 4 | |
| 2019 | 8 | 2 | |
| Total | 89 | 34 | |