William Guerra

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William Guerra
Personal information
Full name William Marino Guerra
Date of birth (1968-02-24) 24 February 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Detroit, Michigan, United States
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1987–88 ASD Tropical Coriano
1990–1993 Real Montecchio
1993–1995 San Marino Calcio
1995–1996 Juvenes/Dogana 17 (0)
1996–1997 San Marino Calcio
1997–1999 Juvenes/Dogana
2000–2004 Pennarossa Chiesanuova
International career
1987–1999 San Marino 40 (0)
1989 San Marino under-21 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Marino Guerra (born 24 February 1968) is a former footballer who played international football for San Marino as a defender. After graduating from the country's youth set-up, he made forty appearances for the San Marino national football team, two in 1987 before the country was affiliated to FIFA and thirty-eight FIFA-sanctioned games between 1990 and 1999, making him the nation's tenth most-capped player of all time. Guerra also captained San Marino on five occasions between 1995 and 1997. He split a 16-year club career between teams from Italy and San Marino.

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Club career

Guerra began his career in 1987, aged nineteen, with ASD Tropical Coriano in Italy. In 1990–91 he moved to fellow Italian club Real Montecchio. There he spent three seasons, leaving the club in 1993 to join San Marino Calcio, a club based in Serravalle, San Marino, but playing in the Italian divisions. After two league campaigns at San Marino, the defender joined Juvenes/Dogana in 1994–1995. [1] He made seventeen appearances in his first season at Juvenes/Dogana, but then left to resign for San Marino Calcio at the end of the season. After spending 1995–96 at San Marino, Guerra rejoined Juvenes/Dogana, where he remained until the end of the 1998–99. In 2000–01 he transferred to Pennarossa Chiesanuova, another San Marino club. Guerra saw out the rest of his career with Pennarossa, retiring in 2004 at the age of 36.

International career

Under-21

Unusually, Guerra appeared for San Marino's senior team before making his under-21 debut. The defender played his first game for the youth team in a 5–0 loss to Switzerland on 6 June 1989 in a 1990 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualifier; Guerra featured in all four of San Marino's games in the tournament. [2] His last appearance for the under-21s came in a 2–0 loss to Italy on 29 November 1989. [3]

Senior team

Guerra made his unofficial debut for San Marino while playing for ASD Tropical Coriano in a 1987 Mediterranean Games 0–0 draw with Lebanon on 16 September. His official debut came in a FIFA-sanctioned 4–0 loss to Switzerland in a Euro 1992 qualifier on 13 November 1990. Guerra went on to represent San Marino in qualifiers for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 1996, 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000. He captained his country for the first time in the 7–0 home loss to Russia on 7 June 1995. He was also captain in the games against Greece, in September, and the Faroe Islands in October. Guerra then had to wait until October 1996 to regain the armband, when San Marino played Belgium. Guerra's final game as captain came in a 6–0 loss to Belgium in June 1997. [4]

His last game for San Marino was the 9–0 loss to Spain in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier on 4 June 1999. Of Guerra's 40 international appearances, San Marino failed to win any and drew just two. [5]

CapDateVenueOpponentResultCompetition
116 September 1987 Aleppo International Stadium, Aleppo, Syria Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon D 0-0 1987 Mediterranean Games
220 September 1987 Aleppo International Stadium, Aleppo, Syria Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey L 4-0 1987 Mediterranean Games
314 November 1990 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland L 4-0 UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
45 December 1990 Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest, Romania Flag of Romania.svg  Romania L 6-0 UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
527 March 1991 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Romania.svg  Romania L 3-1 UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
61 May 1991 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland L 2-0 UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
722 May 1991 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria L 3-0 UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
85 June 1991 Espenmoos, St Gallen, Switzerland Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland L 7-0 UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
916 October 1991 Balgarska Armia Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria L 4-0 UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
1013 November 1991 Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland L 4-0 UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
1119 February 1992 Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena, Italy Flag of Italy.svg  Italy L 4-0 Friendly
129 September 1992 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway Flag of Norway.svg  Norway L 10-0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
137 October 1992 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Norway.svg  Norway L 2-0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1428 October 1992 Ankara, Turkey Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey L 4-1 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1517 February 1993 Wembley Stadium, London, England Flag of England.svg  England L 6-0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1610 March 1993 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey D 0-0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1724 March 1993 Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Netherlands Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands L 6-0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1817 November 1993 Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna, Italy Flag of Italy.svg  Italy L 7-1 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1912 October 1994 Luzhniki Stadium Moscow, Russia Flag of Russia.svg  Russia L 4-0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2016 November 1994 Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece Flag of Greece.svg  Greece L 2-0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2114 December 1994 Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland Flag of Finland.svg  Finland L 2-0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2229 March 1995 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Finland.svg  Finland L 2-0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2326 April 1995 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland L 2-0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
247 June 1995 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Russia.svg  Russia L 7-0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
256 September 1995 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Greece.svg  Greece L 4-0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2611 October 1995 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg  Faroe Islands L 3-1 UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2715 November 1995 Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland L 5-0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
282 June 1996 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales L 5-0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
2931 August 1996 Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales L 6-0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
309 October 1996 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium L 3-0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
3110 November 1996 Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey L 7-0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
3229 March 1997 Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam, Netherlands Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands L 4-0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
3330 April 1997 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands L 6-0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
347 June 1997 King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium L 6-0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
3510 October 1997 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Israel.svg  Israel L 5-0 UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
3614 October 1997 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Austria.svg  Austria L 4-1 UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
3718 November 1997 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus L 1-0 UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
3810 February 1998 Tsirion Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus L 4-0 UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
3928 April 1998 UPC-Arena, Graz, Austria Flag of Austria.svg  Austria L 7-0 UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
405 June 1999 Estadio El Madrigal, Villarreal, Spain Flag of Spain.svg  Spain L 9-0 UEFA Euro 2000 qualification

Life outside of football

While playing football part-time in San Marino and Italy, Guerra worked as a house painter and decorator, a job he still does today. [6] In 1996, ahead of 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Wales, he pledged "If we take a point off Wales, then I will paint all [my friends'] houses for free". However, San Marino lost 5–0 at home and 6–0 in Cardiff. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ William Guerra Profile footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  2. ↑ William Guerra: Statistics and History 11v11.com. 5 June 1999. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Italy vs San Marino, 29 November 1989 - Match Report 11v11.com. 29 November 1989. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  4. ↑ MATCH: 07.06.1997 Belgium - San Marino 6:0 EU-Football.info. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  5. ↑ PLAYER: William Guerra EU-Football.info. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  6. ↑ GUERRA WILLIAM MARINO - Imbiancatura - Repubblica Di San Marino Archived 2012-05-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian) PagineGialle.it. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  7. ↑ World Cup 1998 Qualifying RSSSF. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
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