page_title: Claudio Pizarro
section_title: Fourth stint at Werder Bremen
hierarchical_section_title: Claudio Pizarro / Club career / Fourth stint at Werder Bremen
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Der Fussballprofi Claudio Pizarro im Trikot vom SV Werder Bremen beim Auswärtsspiel gegen die TSG Hoffenheim am 11.05.2019.
context_page_description: Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio is a Peruvian retired professional footballer who played as a striker. Mostly playing with Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen, he scored 337 goals in 872 games in his career.
  Pizarro started his career with Deportivo Pesquero in 1998, before moving to Alianza Lima. Then, he moved over to Germany playing for Werder Bremen. He has spent most of his career playing in the Bundesliga, having two spells at Bayern Munich and four at Werder Bremen, during which he won 17 trophies, 16 of which occurred at Bayern. These include the UEFA Champions League, six Bundesliga titles and six DFB Pokal cups. He had a short spell with Chelsea in 2007, scoring on his debut and being the first Peruvian to ever play for the club. On 23 October 2010, Pizarro set a new record for most goals scored by a foreign player in the Bundesliga, surpassing Giovane Élber's record of 132 in a game against Borussia Mönchengladbach. As of 18 May 2019, Pizarro is the fifth highest goalscorer in Bundesliga history with 197 goals and the all-time top scorer for Werder Bremen.
context_section_description: On 29 July 2018, Pizarro signed a one-year contract with Werder Bremen joining them for the fourth time in his career.
  On 16 February 2019, with his stoppage time equaliser in the away match against Hertha BSC, Pizarro became the oldest goalscorer in the history of the Bundesliga at the age of 40 years and 136 days. This broke the record previously held since August 1996 by Miroslav Votava (aged 40 years and 121 days). His goal also saw him become the first and only player to score in 21 consecutive calendar years in the Bundesliga. On 4 May 2019, he scored his fourth Bundesliga goal of the season, a 2–2 equalizer against Borussia Dortmund; his fifth goal was deciding in the 2–1 game against RB Leipzig, raising the age record for a scorer to 40 years 227 days. 
  On 20 July 2019, Pizarro announced that the 2019–20 season would be his last season before retiring as a football player. In this season, he played 18 Bundesliga matches without scoring a goal. In all of these games, he came from the substitutes bench, including in his final appearance against Mainz 05 on 27 June 2020. He was no longer used in the following two relegation playoff games.
caption: Pizarro with Bremen in 2019
exif: {"Image Make": "Panasonic", "Image Model": "DMC-FZ2000", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "180", "Image YResolution": "180", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Ver.1.0", "Image DateTime": "2019:05:14 23:51:42", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "2310", "Image PrintIM": "[80, 114, 105, 110, 116, 73, 77, 0, 48, 50, 53, 48, 0, 0, 14, 0, 1, 0, 22, 0, ... ]", "Image Tag 0xC6D2": "[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ... ]", "Image Tag 0xC6D3": "[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ... ]", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "180", "Thumbnail YResolution": "180", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "33612", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "8519", "Thumbnail YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/250", "EXIF FNumber": "9/2", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "200", "EXIF SensitivityType": "Standard Output Sensitivity", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2019:05:11 16:13:57", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2019:05:11 16:13:57", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "1109/256", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "176", "EXIF SubSecTime": "936", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "936", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "936", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1530", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2440", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "33052", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "0", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "520", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "Low gain up", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "4E4672F2E92C4216A5F11E5640638BEE", "EXIF Padding": "[]", "EXIF OffsetSchema": "3696"}