William Guerra

William Guerra
Personal information
Full name William Marino Guerra
Date of birth (1968-02-24) 24 February 1968
Place of birth Detroit, Michigan, United States
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
 Retired
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (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
National team
1987–1999 San Marino 40 (0)
1989 San Marino under-21 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

William Marino Guerra (born 24 February 1968 in Detroit, Michigan) 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.

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 1987Aleppo International Stadium, Aleppo, Syria LebanonD 0-01987 Mediterranean Games
220 September 1987Aleppo International Stadium, Aleppo, Syria TurkeyL 4-01987 Mediterranean Games
314 November 1990Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino  SwitzerlandL 4-0UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
45 December 1990Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest, Romania RomaniaL 6-0UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
527 March 1991Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino RomaniaL 3-1UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
61 May 1991Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino ScotlandL 2-0UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
722 May 1991Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino BulgariaL 3-0UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
85 June 1991Espenmoos, St Gallen, Switzerland  SwitzerlandL 7-0UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
916 October 1991Balgarska Armia Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria BulgariaL 4-0UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
1013 November 1991Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland ScotlandL 4-0UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying
1119 February 1992Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena, Italy ItalyL 4-0Friendly
129 September 1992Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway NorwayL 10-01994 FIFA World Cup qualification
137 October 1992Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino NorwayL 2-01994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1428 October 1992Ankara, Turkey TurkeyL 4-11994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1517 February 1993Wembley Stadium, London, England EnglandL 6-01994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1610 March 1993Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino TurkeyD 0-01994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1724 March 1993Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Netherlands NetherlandsL 6-01994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1817 November 1993Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna, Italy ItalyL 7-11994 FIFA World Cup qualification
1912 October 1994Luzhniki Stadium Moscow, Russia RussiaL 4-0UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2016 November 1994Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece GreeceL 2-0UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2114 December 1994Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland FinlandL 2-0UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2229 March 1995Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino FinlandL 2-0UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2326 April 1995Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino ScotlandL 2-0UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
247 June 1995Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino RussiaL 7-0UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
256 September 1995Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino GreeceL 4-0UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2611 October 1995Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino Faroe IslandsL 3-1UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
2715 November 1995Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland ScotlandL 5-0UEFA Euro 1996 qualification
282 June 1996Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino WalesL 5-01998 FIFA World Cup qualification
2931 August 1996Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales WalesL 6-01998 FIFA World Cup qualification
309 October 1996Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino BelgiumL 3-01998 FIFA World Cup qualification
3110 November 1996Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey TurkeyL 7-01998 FIFA World Cup qualification
3229 March 1997Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam, Netherlands NetherlandsL 4-01998 FIFA World Cup qualification
3330 April 1997Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino NetherlandsL 6-01998 FIFA World Cup qualification
347 June 1997King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium BelgiumL 6-01998 FIFA World Cup qualification
3510 October 1997Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino IsraelL 5-0UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
3614 October 1997Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino AustriaL 4-1UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
3718 November 1997Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle, San Marino CyprusL 1-0UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
3810 February 1998Tsirion Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus CyprusL 4-0UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
3928 April 1998UPC-Arena, Graz, Austria AustriaL 7-0UEFA Euro 2000 qualification
405 June 1999Estadio El Madrigal, Villarreal, Spain SpainL 9-0UEFA 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]

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 (in Italian) PagineGialle.it. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  7. ↑ World Cup 1998 Qualifying RSSSF. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
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