Pedro Zurita (born 3 November 1997[1]) is an Argentinian player, famous for being the most prolificous forward in the history of Hattrick: the all-time Top Scorer. He is the first player that arrived at quote 700 goal.
Pedro's former team, Los Bepis, promoted him on a Friday night, 77 years and 75 days ago (Hattrick time). It was the second week of season 18. Young Apache was solid at scoring skill but weak at passing. It is worth to mention that by that time, specialties had not been invented.
After a week of intensive training, his coach noted that Pedro's scoring skill had improved to excellent.
Club Career
Los Bepis (S.18 - S.33)
Zurita scored a goal on his very first match. It was long ago: 11/12/2002. It was an easy opponent on the early stages of the Copa Argentina: (4784245)
But Pedro had yet some more to prove on that same season: on 22/12/2002, he scored his first Hattrick. And it was not only on an official league match but it was against the giants Boca Juniors[2]: (4520945)
It took only one season for us to see his debut on the Argentina U20 National Team. Pedro was just 18, but had powerful friends!
On this match you can see Pedro wear the Light Blue/White jersey for the first time: (6986570)
Pedro was becoming famous in the community and had friends everywhere. In a time when adding a nickname to a player was something almost impossible, Pedro got one for just one match: (7256652). After such event many complained on why Pedro could have a nickname and so many others couldn't. The nick did not see the light of Sunday; it was immediately removed after the Hellas match. But something had changed in him. A new identity was growing inside Pedro.
It is worth to mention that only GM's or HT's could grant a nickname to a player. By that time Tesone's (Los Bepis owner) twin brother was a GM: GM-Melli. Wink.
Pedro would grow older and his skills improved every Friday. It didn't take long until the National Team coach noticed his talent.
On January 2004 Zurita made his debut with the NT: (13783178)
A couple of weeks later, Česká republika would suffer Pedro's first goal: (13906579)
On Friday 11/3/2005, Pedro Zurita reaches scoring skill Divine.
He was the second[3] Argentinian field player to reach such level. Major event for the community.
Immediately after noticing this, Tesone started a big thread on the Argentinian Forum: (2726305.1)
The thread became super popular and the first official request (of many more to come) for the return of the "Apache" nickname took place.
GM-Gaita was not so positive about it: (2726305.25)
Second thread requesting the nickname: (2746916.1)
One year later (March 2005), being quite young for such achievement, Pedro became Argentina's all-time top scorer.
It was his goal #292 and he reached the mark of José Ramón Herrero, Boca Juniors's legendary striker. Once again, Pedro messing with the old HT-Dinosaur.
Again, a thread in the Forums was created to celebrate the event: (5527781.1)
During 2006 (dates are not accurate here), Tesone was interviewed (link) by former user checo.
On April, that same year, Zurita reached 100 caps for the National Team and the community was, once again, celebrating after Apache: (5625045.1)
It was in July 2006 that a famous and extremely bizzarre flash interview took place. Watch it under your own risk: (link)
19/10/2006: The Argentinian Community finds out that Zurita is very close to beating the record: (7164389.1)
The next day, Pedro makes it beating English striker Cody Edgar : (7164389.64)
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