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Diego Forlán (born May 19 1979) is a Uruguayan footballer who currently plays for Villarreal.
He was born in Montevideo into a family of footballers. His father Pablo Forlán had played for the national football team during the Template:Wc held in West Germany and his grandfather Juan Carlos Corazzo played for Argentine CA Independiente.
A promising tennis player in his youth, he decided however to follow the family tradition and concentrate on football, he played for several South American clubs before transferring in January 2002 to play for Manchester United in England for a fee of £6.9 million.
He made his debut for the team on January 29 against Bolton Wanderers but did not score his first goal for the club, a penalty, until August 18 in a Champions League game against Maccabi Haifa. It took him eight months and 27 games to score that first goal, to the extent that he was dubbed "Diego Forlorn" for his goal drought by some quarters of the English press.
His record of 17 goals from 95 appearances for the club does not compare favourably against team mate Ruud van Nistelrooy's 110 goals in 136 games, and it was widely thought that he would not start the 2004/2005 season in the Red Devils team colours. Wayne Rooney's arrival on the English club eventually signalled the end of his playing days at United.
Forlan was strongly linked to a move to Spanish club Levante, but signed on 21 August 2004 with another Spanish club, Villarreal, where he became the Spanish 2004/2005 season Top Scorer with 25 goals, helping them to their first ever Champions League spot. He has remained grateful to United, however, and in particular to Alex Ferguson, because (in his own words) "What I learnt in Manchester was, in some ways, a positive experience that has contributed to my success."bg:Диего Форлан