Walter Samuel

**Walter Samuel** (born 23 March 1978) is an Argentine football player. He plays for Internazionale Milano and Argentina national team.

### Club

.
|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Newell's Old Boys|1995–96|rowspan="3"|Argentine Primera División|5|0|—|—|—|5|0||||
|1996–97|35|0|—|—|—|35|0||||||||
|1997–98|2|0|—|—|—|2|0||||||||
|rowspan="4"|Boca Juniors|1997–98|rowspan="3"|Argentine Primera División|12|0|—|—|—|12|0||||
|1998–99|34|2|—|7|0|—|41|2|||||||
|1999–2000|31|2|—|19|1|—|50|3|||||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|Roma|2000–01|rowspan="4"|Serie A|31|1|2|0|8|3|—|41|4||
|2001–02|30|5|2|0|12|0|1|0|45|5|||||
|2002–03|31|2|6|0|10|0|—|47|2||||||
|2003–04|30|1|2|0|8|0|—|40|1||||||
|Real Madrid|2004–05|La Liga|30|2|2|0|8|0|—|40|2||||
|rowspan="10" style="text-align:center;"|Internazionale|2005–06|rowspan="9"|Serie A|27|2|5|0|9|0|1|0|42|2|
|2006–07|18|3|5|0|3|0|1|0|27|3|||||
|2007–08|12|0|1|0|5|1|0|0|18|1|||||
|2008–09|17|1|2|0|1|0|0|0|20|1|||||
|2009–10|28|3|1|0|13|1|0|0|42|4|||||
|2010–11|10|0|0|0|3|0|2|0|13|0|||||
|2011–12|27|2|1|0|6|1|1|0|35|3|||||
|2012–13|16|1|1|0|5|0|—|22|1||||||
|2013–14|14|2|1|0|—|—|15|2|||||||
|rowspan="3"|Basel|2014–15|rowspan="2"|Swiss Super League|12|1|2|0|4|0|—|18|1||
|2015–16|17|1|3|0|7|1|—|27|2||||||

### International

Source:
|Year|Apps|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- |
|colspan=3|Argentina||
|1999|10|1|
|2000|10|0|
|2001|8|2|
|2002|6|0|
|2003|5|1|
|2004|6|0|
|2005|5|1|
|2006|2|0|
|2007|0|0|
|2008|0|0|
|2009|0|0|
|2010|4|0|

- _Argentina score listed first, score column indicates score after each Samuel goal._

|scope=col|#|scope=col data-sort-type=date|Date|scope=col|Venue|scope=col|Opponent|scope=col|Score|scope=col|Result|scope=col|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|3 February 1999|Estadio José Pachencho Romero, Maracaibo, Venezuela||**1**–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|2.|28 March 2001|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||**5**–0|5–0|2002 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|3.|8 November 2001||**1**–0|2–0||||||||||
|4.|20 August 2003|Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy||**2**–2|3–2|Friendly||||||||
|5.|11 November 2005|Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland||**2**–1|2–3|||||||||

## Honours

**Boca Juniors**
- Primera División: 1998 Apertura, 1999 Clausura
- Copa Libertadores: 2000

**Roma**
- Serie A: 2000–01
- Supercoppa Italiana: 2001

**Internazionale**
- Serie A: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10
- Coppa Italia: 2005–06, 2009–10, 2010–11
- Supercoppa Italiana: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010
- UEFA Champions League: 2009–10

**FC Basel**
- Swiss Super League: 2014–15, 2015–16
**Argentina U20**
- FIFA U-20 World Cup: 1997

**Argentina**
- FIFA Confederations Cup runner-up: 2005
**Individual**
- South American Team of the Year: 1999
- ESM Team of the Year: 2001–02, 2003–04
- Serie A Defender of the Year: 2010
- FIFA FIFPro World XI Nominee 2005, 2009, 2010
- IFFHS Argentina All Times Dream Team (Team C): 2021

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Walter Samuel
- **image**: Walter Samuel FC Internazionale.jpg
- **caption**: Samuel with Inter Milan, Internazionale in October 2011
- **full name**: Walter Adrián Samuel
- **birth name**: Walter Adrián Luján
- **birth place**: Unión Department, Laborde, Argentina
- **position**: Centre-back
- **years1**: 1996–1997
- **clubs1**: Newell's Old Boys
- **caps1**: 42
- **goals1**: 0
- **years2**: 1997–2000
- **clubs2**: Boca Juniors
- **caps2**: 77
- **goals2**: 4
- **years3**: 2000–2004
- **clubs3**: A.S. Roma, Roma
- **caps3**: 122
- **goals3**: 9
- **years4**: 2004–2005
- **clubs4**: Real Madrid C.F., Real Madrid
- **caps4**: 30
- **goals4**: 2
- **years5**: 2005–2014
- **clubs5**: Inter Milan, Internazionale
- **caps5**: 169
- **goals5**: 14
- **years6**: 2014–2016
- **clubs6**: FC Basel, Basel
- **caps6**: 29
- **goals6**: 2
- **totalcaps**: 469
- **totalgoals**: 31
- **nationalyears1**: 1997
- **nationalteam1**: Argentina national under-20 football team, Argentina U20
- **nationalcaps1**: 6
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 1999–2010
- **nationalteam2**: Argentina national football team, Argentina
- **nationalcaps2**: 56
- **nationalgoals2**: 5
- **manageryears1**: 2019–
- **managerclubs1**: Argentina national football team, Argentina (assistant)