The young striker was born on March 18, 1987 in the small town of Haedo, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. This fast and technical striker, who is younger brother of three Argentine players like Ariel, Sergio and Rolando Zarate (the latter to pass through the ranks Real Madrid), started his youth career at Club Atlético Velez Sarsfield, with which debuted in Argentina League in April 2004 in a match against Arsenal de Sarandi. Gradually gained prominence in the velezano club, which won the Clausura 2005, until his breakthrough as a player in the Torneo Apertura 2006. In that tournament he scored 12 goals, the same Boca player Rodrigo Palacio, to devote as top scorer.
His performances in the league Argentina began to grab the attention of several well-known European clubs such as Sevilla and Juventus, which was expected to jump to Europe after playing in the World Under-20 Championship 2007, played in Canada . But the surprise jumped a few days before the World Cup, following the announcement that had been transferred to the Qatari league for a figure close to $ 20 million.
This marked the beginning of a series of discussions on the decision taken by Zarate on the eve of the World Under-20 and, in some ways, they influenced their performance in the finals, as they only scored one goal in 6 games played by an Argentina side who marveled at the performances of Sergio Kun Agüero, Éver Banega, Angel Di Maria or Maxi Moralez, who had led the Argentina to World Cup final in which would face the Czechs, down on paper. However, the Czechs will prepay in the light thanks to a superb goal from Martin Fenin in minute 60, which answered a minute later Agüero. When the game seemed inevitably doomed to penalties, Mauro appeared to score the goal which won the championship in Argentina in the absence of 5 minutes to prove themselves.
With the championship in his pocket, sailed Zarate's new venture in Qatar. But his performance went quite unnoticed in Qatar to the world of football, and became only 4 goals. Luckily for the show and for his career, appeared in January 2008, Birmingham City, a team from the lower part of the Premier League, requesting the services of Argentine striker to avoid relegation. He joined the West Midlands county of a transfer of 6 months with option to buy and they scored 4 goals in 14 games, most of them coming off the bench.
At the end of the season, with Birmingham down and without using your choice of purchase Zárate was forced to return to Qatar, but his desire was to play in Europe. And so came Claudio Lotito, Lazio president to rescue the young Mauro and lead his team in an assignment for one year with option to repurchase.
was introduced in Italy as a big star and he responded by scoring a brace in his first game against Cagliari in Serie A. Those two goals were followed by another against Sampdoria, a goal in his first match at San Siro against Milan, a doppietta against Torino and another to Siena, which has become one of the players this revelation of calcium season, battling for the trophy with Diego Milito cannonieri capo, and to even talk of a possible inclusion in a future list of Diego Armando Maradona for Argentina absolute. Unthinkable for the majority of fans less than a year, except for himself.
Alejandro .-
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