page_title: Mauro Zárate
section_title: West Ham United
hierarchical_section_title: Mauro Zárate / Club career / West Ham United
caption_attribution_description: English: West Ham United player, Mauro Zarate signing autographs at the Boleyn Ground before their Premier League victory against Queens Park Rangers.
context_page_description: Mauro Matías Zárate is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for Boca Juniors.
  Zárate started his career with Vélez Sarsfield in his native country, playing three years for the team and winning the Primera División title in the 2005 Clausura tournament. He later signed for Qatari side Al-Sadd in 2007, where he played only six months before transferring on loan to Birmingham City in England. However, after Birmingham's relegation, Zárate was loaned out again, this time to Lazio in Italy, where he won the Coppa Italia. His move to Lazio was then made permanent for a fee of around €20 million, with a €60 million buy-out clause. After a loan at Inter Milan and a brief return to Vélez Sarsfield, he joined West Ham United in 2014, spending the second half of his first season on loan at Queens Park Rangers. In January 2016, Zárate joined Italian club Fiorentina. A year later, he joined Watford of the English Premier League on a two-and-a-half-year, £2.3 million deal.
  At international level, Zárate scored the winning goal as the Argentina under-20 team won the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup final.
context_section_description: On 28 May 2014, Zárate signed a three-year contract with Premier League club West Ham United to take effect when the international transfer window opened in June. On 23 August, he scored on his competitive debut for the club, opening a 3–1 win away to Crystal Palace with a 20-yard volley.
caption: Zárate signing autographs at the Boleyn Ground in 2014
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