Mauro Boselli

Boselli began playing small sided football at Sportivo Pereyra de Barracas and then to the youth system of All Boys.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elgrafico.com.ar/articulo/amp/1089/34806/2009-mauro-boselli-peligro-de-gol|title = 2009. Mauro Boselli: Peligro de gol | el Gráfico}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.tudn.com/futbol/liga-mx/mauro-boselli-y-su-camino-para-llegar-a-los-200-goles-como-profesional-fotos|title = Mauro Boselli y su camino para llegar a los 200 goles como profesional}}{{Cite web|url=https://elintransigente.com/2020/06/a-12-anos-del-ultimo-partido-de-mauro-boselli-tuvo-chances-de-volver/amp/|title = A 12 años del último partido de Mauro Boselli: ¿tuvo chances de volver?|date = 22 June 2020}}

At the age of 11, Boselli entered the Boca Juniors youth teams.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.cl/noticias/nota/_/s/mex/id/1881472/type/story|title=Mauro Boselli busca recuperar su nivel con el León|date=23 August 2013}} In 2002, Boselli went to Spain with Boca Juniors for a youth tournament and played the final before a game disputed between Bilbao and Roma, when Roma's coach Fabio Capello asked Boselli if he was Italian and if he held a community passport. At Boca Juniors, Boselli played in 30 reserve games before jumping to the first squad. In 2003, Boselli featured in the Boca Juniors under-20 side with Brazilian midfielder Eduardo Martins Nunes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.playmakerstats.com/equipa.php?id=60394&epoca_id=132|title=Club Atlético Boca Juniors - U20 :: Statistics :: Titles :: Titles (in-depth) :: History (Timeline) :: Goals Scored :: Fixtures :: Results :: News & Features :: Videos :: Photos :: Squad :: playmakerstats.com|website=www.playmakerstats.com|accessdate=1 December 2022}}

Boselli debuted in the first-team's pre-season when he was 16. Boselli made his debut for Boca Juniors in a 7–2 defeat to Rosario Central on 6 July 2003, for the last fixture of the 2003 Clausura.{{cite web |url=http://www.argentinesoccer.com/player_apps.cfm?id=mbsl&Championship=cl03&Team=boc |title=Closing '03 statistics |publisher=Argentine Soccer |access-date=15 August 2010 }} In this task, however, many youth team players made their presentation seeings as the starting squad were celebrating winning the 2003 Copa Libertadores days earlier.

In the club's 2004 under-20 side, Boselli shared the squad with teammates as Fernando Gago, Andrés Franzoia and Eduardo Casais.{{Cite web|url=https://www.playmakerstats.com/equipa.php?id=60394&epoca_id=133|title=Club Atlético Boca Juniors - U20 :: Statistics :: Titles :: Titles (in-depth) :: History (Timeline) :: Goals Scored :: Fixtures :: Results :: News & Features :: Videos :: Photos :: Squad :: playmakerstats.com|website=www.playmakerstats.com|accessdate=1 December 2022}} In 2004, Boselli formed a Boca Juniors winning team with Carlos Tevez, Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Pablo Ledesma, Diego Cagna, Sebastián Battaglia, Jonathan Fabbro, Rolando Schiavi, Roberto Abbondanzieri, youth graduate Neri Cardozo and Colombian Fabián Vargas.{{Cite web|url=https://www.playmakerstats.com/equipa.php?id=1179&epoca_id=133|title=Club Atlético Boca Juniors :: Statistics :: Titles :: Titles (in-depth) :: History (Timeline) :: Goals Scored :: Fixtures :: Results :: News & Features :: Videos :: Photos :: Squad :: playmakerstats.com|website=www.playmakerstats.com|accessdate=1 December 2022}}

In 2005, Boselli noted 2 goals in 11 appearances for the first-team.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playmakerstats.com/player.php?id=35659|title = Mauro Boselli :: Mauro Boselli :: Cerro Porteño}} He did, though, share the team with Belgian player Mikael Yourassowsky.

He subsequently spent the 2005–06 season on loan at Málaga B in the Spanish Segunda División, scoring 5 goals in 32 games. At Málaga, Boselli was one of three South American players in the team, including Peruvian Juan González-Vigil and Brazilian Tiago Marchiori.{{Cite web|url=https://www.playmakerstats.com/equipa.php?id=24629&epoca_id=135|title=Málaga Club de Fútbol SAD - B :: Statistics :: Titles :: Titles (in-depth) :: History (Timeline) :: Goals Scored :: Fixtures :: Results :: News & Features :: Videos :: Photos :: Squad :: playmakerstats.com|website=www.playmakerstats.com|accessdate=1 December 2022}}

After returning to Boca Juniors, Boselli struggled to become a regular in the first team, being behind Martín Palermo and Argentina 2006 FIFA World Cup player Rodrigo Palacio in the coaches' consideration. On 12 December 2007, Boselli came on as a substitute in the 90th minute for Rodrigo Palacio in Boca Juniors' 1-0 semi-final victory against Tunisian club Étoile Sportive du Sahel in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup.

Whilst at Boca, the club rejected many loan offers and permanent signing deals, including from Lazio and Catania, always saying that Boselli was not for sale. Six months before departing Boca Juniors, Boselli signed a 4-year contract with the club.

Boselli's final game for Boca Juniors was a 6–2 victory against Tigre in the 2008 Torneo Clausura.

Boselli departed the club at the middle of 2008, disputing a total of 59 official games and starting in 21 of them.

In July 2008, Estudiantes de La Plata bought 50% of Boselli's transfer rights from Boca, allowing the forward to move to the La Plata outfit. In Estudiantes, Boselli started strongly with 8 goals in 15 league games during his first tournament, the 2008 Apertura.{{cite web |url=http://www.argentinesoccer.com/player_apps.cfm?id=mbsl&Championship=ap08&Team=est |title=Opening '08 statistics |publisher=Argentine Soccer |access-date=15 August 2010 }} In 2009, he won the Copa Libertadores with Estudiantes. During the competition, Boselli scored 8 goals, finishing as the overall top scorer of the tournament. He also helped the team by scoring the winning goal in the tournament's final against Cruzeiro, in Belo Horizonte. In total, Mauro Boselli scored 49 goals at Estudiantes de La Plata since June 2008. He hit 32 goals in the Argentine Primera División and a further 17 goals in international cups: 12 in the Copa Libertadores, four in the Copa Sudamericana and one in the FIFA Club World Cup. Boselli revealed that Estudiantes coach Alejandro Sabella prepared the squad for six months before playing against 2008/09 UEFA Champions League winners Barcelona, including 15 to 30 minute training sessions on the Tuesdays and Thursdays focusing on how Estudiantes was going to play against Barcelona.

On 29 June 2010, Boselli signed a four-year deal with Wigan Athletic for an undisclosed fee.{{cite web | title=Latics land Boselli! | url=http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10429~2078856,00.html | publisher=Wigan Athletic official website | date=29 June 2010 | access-date=27 October 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702235905/http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C10429~2078856%2C00.html | archive-date=2 July 2010 | url-status=dead }} He made his debut in the opening game of the Premier League season against Blackpool,{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8904972.stm | title=Wigan 0–4 Blackpool | publisher= BBC Sport | date=14 August 2010 | access-date=27 October 2010}} and scored his first competitive goal for the club against Swansea City in the League Cup on 26 October 2010.{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/9059511.stm | title=Wigan 2–0 Swansea | publisher=BBC Sport | date=26 October 2010 | access-date=27 October 2010}}

However, following his first goal for the club, Boselli found settling into the English Premier League difficult. In March 2012, Wigan fans voted Boselli as the club's worst ever foreigner.FourFourTwoMagazine

Having struggled to adapt to English football, Boselli was loaned to Italian Serie A side Genoa on 13 January 2011 for the remainder of the 2010–11 season.{{cite web|title=Wigan striker Mauro Boselli joins Genoa on loan|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/wigan_athletic/9360333.stm|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=29 August 2012|date=14 January 2011}} At Genoa, he teamed up with former Boca Juniors teammate Rodrigo Palacio.{{Cite web|url=https://www.playmakerstats.com/equipa.php?id=3728&epoca_id=140|title=Genoa Cricket and Football Club :: Statistics :: Titles :: Titles (in-depth) :: History (Timeline) :: Goals Scored :: Fixtures :: Results :: News & Features :: Videos :: Photos :: Squad :: playmakerstats.com|website=www.playmakerstats.com|accessdate=1 December 2022}} He made seven appearances and scored two goals for Genoa,{{cite web|title=Misfiring striker seals loan move|url=http://www.clubcall.com/wigan-athletic/misfiring-striker-seals-loan-move-1251265.html|publisher=ClubCall|date=2 August 2011|access-date=29 August 2012}} including a match-winning goal in stoppage time against rival club U.C. Sampdoria.{{cite web|title=Genoa 2–1 Sampdoria: Mauro Boselli wins derby with last-minute strike|url=http://www.goal.com/en/match/50666/genoa-vs-sampdoria/report|website=Goal.com|access-date=29 August 2012}}

Before returning to Wigan from his season-long loan at Genoa, Boselli expressed interest in a permanent move to the Italian side.{{cite web|title=Boselli eyes Genoa stay|url=http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/6924187/|publisher=Sky Sports|access-date=29 August 2012|date=9 May 2011}} However, he later stated his main aim was to return to Argentina,{{cite web|last=Paterson|first=Hayley|title=Boselli eager for Latics exit|url=http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/7029449/|publisher=Sky Sports|access-date=29 August 2012|date=9 July 2011}} and was subsequently loaned out to former club Estudiantes for the 2011–12 season.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/wigan-s-boselli-returns-estudiantes-1793711|title = Wigan's Boselli returns to Estudiantes – Tribal Football}} Boselli finished as the club's top goalscorer in both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments, featuring in 29 games and netting 11 goals.{{cite web|title=Mauro Boselli biografía|url=http://www.mauroboselli.com.ar/bio.php|publisher=Sitio Oficial de Mauro Boselli|access-date=29 August 2012|language=es|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722181508/http://www.mauroboselli.com.ar/bio.php|archive-date=22 July 2013}}

Boselli returned to Wigan after a year and a half on loan at two different clubs. He was issued the squad number 19 as Franco Di Santo had taken his original number 9 shirt. After appearing on the bench for the first two league games, briefly appearing away at Southampton in a 2–0 win as an 89th-minute substitute,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19304275|title = Southampton 0-2 Wigan|work = BBC Sport}} Boselli returned to starting action by starting for Wigan in a League Cup tie away at Nottingham Forest. Boselli scored the first goal in a 4–1 victory and impressed during the night. It was his second ever goal for Wigan.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19340506|title = Nott'm Forest 1-4 Wigan|work = BBC Sport}} On 25 September 2012 Boselli scored twice in a 4–1 win away at West Ham in the third round of the League Cup.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19632353|title = West Ham 1-4 Wigan|work = BBC Sport}} On 15 January 2013, Boselli grabbed his 4th goal of the season in a 1–0 FA Cup Third Round Replay win away at Bournemouth.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20942524|title = Bournemouth 0-1 Wigan|work = BBC Sport}}

In the post match interview following the FA Cup game against Macclesfield on 26 January 2013,

Wigan manager Roberto Martínez confirmed that Boselli had agreed to a further loan spell, this time back in Italy at Palermo. The move was finalized and officially confirmed by the Sicilian club two days later, on 28 January.{{cite news |url=http://palermocalcio.it/it/1213/news/scheda.php?id=27970 |publisher=U.S. Città di Palermo |language=it |access-date=28 January 2013 |date=28 January 2013 |title=ALTRO COLPO: ECCO BOSELLI; DOMANI ALLE 14 LA PRESENTAZIONE |trans-title=ANOTHER COUP: HERE COMES BOSELLI; PRESS INTRODUCTION TOMORROW AT 2PM}}

In June 2013, he moved to Club León in Mexico.

In his first game for Leon, Boselli scored a double, his first goals, in the Copa MX against Dorados. Three days later, he debuted in the Liga MX, scoring in a 2–1 victory against Atlas.

In December 2013,{{cite web|title=Boselli leaves Wigan for Mexico|date=28 June 2013|url=http://www.soccernews.com/boselli-leaves-wigan-for-mexico/122730/|publisher=soccernews.com|access-date=28 June 2013}} León became champion of Liga MX Apertura 2013, being a key player for the championship and most games played during the season.

Yet again, in the Clausura 2014, he was a key player the next year, when León became champions for the second year in a row making them the second Mexican team to become "bicampeones" in the 6 months modalilty tournament. (Also León won the first "bicampeón" in the 1950s, one year tournament). He is currently the club's second highest goalscorer in its entire history, with 130 goals scored in all competitions.

In 2018, whilst at Leon, Boselli reached marking 200 career goals. Boselli achieved two Liga MX titles for Leon.

In January 2019, he moved to Corinthians in Brazil.{{cite web|url=https://www.corinthians.com.br/mauro-boselli-e-o-novo-atacante-do-corinthians|title=Mauro Boselli é o novo atacante do Corinthians|publisher=corinthians.com.br|date=4 January 2019|access-date=4 January 2019|language=pt}}

For 2019, Boselli disputed 26 games, scored 8 goals and gave two assistances for Corinthians between the local tournament and the Copa Sudamericana, he also won the 2019 Paulista Championship.

During the Paraguayan superclasico played in August 2021, Boselli scored for Cerro Porteño in a 3–0 victory against Olimpia Asunción.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ole.com.ar/futbol-internacional/america/goles-olimpia-cerro-porteno_3_b7-Bshuye.amp.html|title = Los goles de Olimpia 0-Cerro Porteño 3|date = 15 August 2021}}

In September 2021, Boselli departed to Argentina for family matters with permission from Cerro Porteño and was absent from the team,{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.com.py/deportes/futbol/cerro-porteno/2021/09/09/mauro-boselli-esta-en-argentina-con-permiso-especial/%3foutputType=amp|title = Mauro Boselli está en Argentina, con permiso especial - Cerro Porteño - ABC Color}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.com.py/deportes/futbol/cerro-porteno/2021/09/14/volvimos-mauro-boselli-reintegrado-a-cerro-porteno/|title="Volvimos": Mauro Boselli, reintegrado a Cerro Porteño - Cerro Porteño - ABC Color|website=www.abc.com.py|accessdate=1 December 2022}} which resulting in the passing of his mother as communicated by the club.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rdn.com.py/2021/09/11/cerro-comunica-el-fallecimiento-de-la-madre-de-mauro-boselli/|title = Cerro comunica el fallecimiento de la madre de Mauro Boselli|date = 12 September 2021}} In the same month, Cerro Porteño confirmed Boselli's continuity at the club for 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://versus.lanacion.com.py/versus/2021/09/21/cerro-asegura-mauro-boselli-para-todo-el-2022/|title = Cerro asegura a Mauro Boselli para todo el 2022|date = 21 September 2021}} This was automatically assured in Boselli's first contract, in reaching a quantity of games would assure a contract extension.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cronica.com.py/2021/09/22/boselli-sera-de-cerro-por-todo-el-2022-voi/|title = Crónica / Boselli será de Cerro por todo el 2022 voi|date = 22 September 2021}} This was automatically assured in Boselli's first contract, in reaching a quantity of games would assure a contract extension.

On 6 January 2022, Boselli joined Estudiantes de La Plata. On 2 November 2023, Boselli announced he would retire from professional football at the end of the season.{{cite web|url=https://www.ole.com.ar/estudiantes/boselli-anuncio-retiro-estudiantes_0_LswMDvmoDO.html|title=Se retira un ídolo de Estudiantes: Mauro Boselli|publisher=Diario Olé|language=es|date=2 November 2023}}

In 2005, Boselli was part of the Argentina U-20 national team that finished third in the South American Youth Championship (therefore qualifying for that year's U-20 World Cup). However, Boselli was not part of the final World Cup squad.

On 27 September 2009, Boselli was called for a local league based Argentina national team (replacing injured Esteban Fuertes) to play a friendly match against Ghana.[http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/09/28/um/m-02007882.htm "La Selección local comienza a trabajar de cara al amistoso ante Ghana"] Clarin. Retrieved on 4 October 2009. {{in lang|es}} Three days later, on 30 September, Boselli debuted with the national team, being brought in as a substitute in the 57th minute of the match.{{cite web|title=Argentina derrotó a Ghana por 2 a 0 |url=http://www.afa.org.ar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10250:partido-entre-argentina-y-ghana&catid=164:seleccion-mayor&Itemid=66|publisher=AFA|access-date=25 May 2010}} Boselli scored his first goal for Argentina- from the penalty spot- in a 4–1 defeat to Nigeria on 1 June 2011.

After finishing secondary school, Boselli studied sports journalism for a year.

{{updated|31 December 2021|{{cite web|title=Mauro Boselli football statistics|url=http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=37256|work=Soccerbase|access-date=29 August 2012}}{{cite web|title=Mauro Boselli Bio, Stats, News|url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/player/_/id/148775/mauro-boselli?cc=3436|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102230524/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/player/_/id/148775/mauro-boselli?cc=3436|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 January 2013|work=ESPN Soccernet|access-date=29 August 2012}}{{cite web|title=Mauro Boselli club matches|url=http://www.worldfootball.net/spieler_profil/mauro-boselli/2/|work=worldfootball.net|access-date=29 August 2012}}}}

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Boca Juniors

• Copa Sudamericana: 2004
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Estudiantes LP

• Copa Libertadores: 2009
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Wigan Athletic

• FA Cup: 2013

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• Liga MX (2): Apertura 2013, Clausura 2014

Corinthians

• Campeonato Paulista: 2019

Individual

• Copa Libertadores top scorer: 2009 (with Estudiantes)
• Argentine Primera División top scorer: 2010 Clausura (with Estudiantes)
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