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Personal info about Christian Benítez
Christian Rogelio Benítez
Betancourt (May 1,
1986 – July 29, 2013), also famous as Chucho,
was an Ecuadorian footballer who play as a forward for El Jaish of
the Qatar Stars League at the moment in time of his death. He
began his career with El Nacional in Ecuador and then joined Santos Laguna, with whom he won the award for Best
Player of the Clausura
2008.[2] He
spent the 2009–10 season on loan to Premier League club Birmingham City.
Benitez played 58 period for the Ecuador
national football team from
his debut in 2005, score 24 goals.
Contents
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4 Death
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6 Honors
o 6.1 Club
Personal life[edit]
Benitez was born in Quito,[3] the
son of former Ecuador global footballerErmen Benítez.[4] In
2007 he married Liseth, daughter of fellow international player Cléber Chalá;[5] she
gave birth to twin in August 2009.[6]
Club career[edit]
El
Nacional[edit]
Due to a series of strong performance
for El Nacional,
Benítez was scouted by clubs such as Villarreal CF of
Spain,[7] though
El Nacional denied any knowledge of the rumoured interest.[8]
By scoring 29 goals in 83 league
matches for El Nacional, Chucho won both the 2005 Clausura and 2006 League
Championships.
Santos
Laguna[edit]
In July 2007, he moved to Santos Laguna of
the Mexican Primera División.
With his arrival and that of Vicente Matías Vuoso,
Santos had an impressive season with wins over several top Mexican clubs. In
2007, Benítez received an award as the best Ecuadorian footballer playing
outside Ecuador,[9] following PSV Eindhoven's Édison Méndez.
Despite interest from Portuguese
club Benfica,[10] Benítez
decided to remain in Mexico. His 10 goals made a major contribution to Santos
winning the Clausura
2008 title, and his personal
reward was selection as best player of the season.[2]
Birmingham
City
On June 3, 2009, Birmingham City announced the signing of Benítez on a
three-year contract for an undisclosed club record transfer fee, which press
reports speculated to be in the region of £6 million rising to £9m.[11] The
move was subject to the demonstrator receiving a work permit and passing a
medical.[4][12] The
medical revealed unforeseen knee problems,[13] which
prompted the deal to be renegotiated on a "protected purchase" basis.
The club would pay an initial $2m (£1.2m) with an option to abort the deal
on medical grounds after the first year; thereafter the fee could potentially
rise, depending on appearance and success, to a club record $12.5m (£7.7m).[14][15] The
player eventually signed on July 7.[14] The
club later clarified that he was in fact on loan.[16] While
recovering from shoulder surgery and awaiting his visa, Benítez played in an
all-star match in Ecuador without asking the club's permission.[17]
2009–10
season[edit]
He made his Birmingham debut as a
second-half substitute in Birmingham's opening match of the
season, a 1–0 defeat at Manchester United,
and came close to equalising, drawing a "wonderful one-handed diving
save" from Ben Foster.[18] His
first Premier League start came against Hull City on
September 19; he played a key role in a 1–0 win and "could have had a
hat-trick but for the supreme goalkeeping of Boaz Myhill".[19] Benítez
scored his first goal for the Blues on November 9 away to Liverpool, with a close-range header after Scott Dann had
nodded the ball on, in a game which completed 2–2.[20] He
scored the first of what manager Alex McLeish described
as "two classy goals" as Birmingham knocked Everton out
of the FA Cup at Goodison Park.[21] However,
after his season produced only four goals and Birmingham's attempt to
renegotiate the agreed transfer fee was unsuccessful, the club chose not to
take up their option to purchase, and the player returned to Santos Laguna.[22][23]
Return to
Santos Laguna 2010[edit]
On July 21, 2010, Benítez signed
a new three-year deal with Santos Laguna,[24] in
the first tournament after his return he was the top goalscorer with 16 goals.
Leading the scoring table, Chucho led Santos to the 2010 Apertura Finals, losing
to Club de Futbol Monterrey.
Club
América
Benitez signed to play for América on
May 22, 2011. The transfer fee was reported to be of $10 million, which
established a record for a club in México. He scored a goal in his debut on
July 24, in the 2–1 win against Querétaro. On August 21, 2011 Benítez made his first
hat trick with América against Club Atlas in
a 5–2 win. In his first Súper Clásico,
Benítez scored a header in a 3–1 loss to Chivas.
Benítez scored the opening goal
for Club América's Clausura 2012 season in a 2–0 win againstQuerétaro. Benítez ended the season with 14 goals and
ended up being the league's top scorer along with Iván Alonso.
2012–13
season[edit]
Benítez played his first game of
the 2012–13 season on July 21 against Monterrey,
in a 0–0 away draw. On July 28, he scored his first goals of the season in a
4–2 victory over Chiapas. On November 11, Benitez became joint top
goal-scorer of the 2012 Apertura alongside Atlante'sEsteban Paredes. On November 14, Benítez scored a two
goals in a 2–0 away play-off quarter-final match against Morelia.
Benítez scored his first three
goals of the 2013 Clausura season in a 2–0 away win against Jaguares de
Chiapas. On March 2, Benítez scored a hat trick, 2 headers and a left-footed
strike against Cruz Azul in
a 3–0 win. On April 27 after losing 2–0 in an away match against Pachuca,
Benitez scored a hat-trick to lead América to a 4–2 win. Benitez ended up being
the Clausura 2013 Liga MX top scorer for the third consecutive season. On May
26, Benitez became Liga MX 2013 Clausura champions after defeating Cruz Azul
4–2 in a penalty shoot-out, where he converted the second penalty.
El Jaish
Sports Club[edit]
He officially left the club on
July 6, 2013, and signed a contract with Qatari club El Jaish.[25] He
made his debut in a match againstQatar SC in the Sheikh Jassim Cup on 28 July “without complaining of any
health problems," according to El Jaish officials.[26] This
was the only match he played for the club, a day later he died from cardiac
arrest at age 27.
International career
Benítez
was a member of the Ecuador
national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
Although considered by many as a
surprise selection by Ecuador's Colombian-born coach Luis Fernando Suarez,
he had impressed with his speed, elusiveness and skill in pre-World Cup
showings against Netherlands, Japan and the 2006 Copa Libertadores experience. He was a candidate for the
Gillette Best Young Player Award, a new award made at the end of the FIFA World Cup to
the best young player born on or after January 1, 1985. His only appearance was
in the 3–0 loss to Germany,
replacing Felix Borja midway
through the match.
His first international goal came
in September 2006 against Peru. Then in
April 2007, he scored another goal against Peru in Ecuador's 2–0 win in a
friendly held in the Mini Estadi in Barcelona, Spain. He also scored in a 1–1
draw with the Republic
of Ireland in a
friendly match played in New Jersey on
May 23, 2006.[27] This
added to the belief that he could excel in Europe.[28]
Benítez started all three games
during the 2007 Copa América,
scoring against Chile. Despite
his attacking flair, Ecuador were eliminated in the first stage, losing all
three matches. In an international friendly against El
Salvador on September
8, 2007, Benítez scored twice in an emphatic 5–1 home win in Quito.[29]
In a 2010 FIFA
World Cup qualifier against Bolivia,
he scored his country's third goal in a 3–1 win.[30] A
month later, he scored the only goal against Chile.[31]
International
goals[edit]
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Date
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Venue
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Opponent
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Score
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Final
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Competition
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Death[edit]
On July 29, 2013, Benítez entered
a sanatorium in Doha, Qatar since of a "strong pain" in
his front. According to Miguel Herreraand other team mate in an interview
with Matutino Express, he
did not be given instant medical concentration and a few hours later Benítez
went into respiratory failure.[32] He
die from complications principal to cardiac arrest at
the age of 27.[33][34]
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