Everton Kempes dos Santos Gonçalves (3 August 1982 – 28 November 2016), commonly known as Kempes, was a Brazilian

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who last played as a

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for Chapecoense. Kempes was one of the victims when LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crashed on 28 November 2016.

Club career

Born in

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, Kempes moved to

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at early age, and joined Canto do Rio at the age of 17 after impressing on a trial. He was promoted to the first team in 2001, and subsequently represented Nacional de Muriaé before joining Série A club Paraná in 2004. After being rarely used, Kempes moved to

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and played for Estrela do Norte and Vitória, winning the 2006

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with the latter. Spells at

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and 15 de Novembro de Campo Bom followed before signing a contract with

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on 11 July 2007. In 2008 Kempes joined Caxias, and after being the club's top goalscorer in the year's

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, signed for

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on loan; at the latter he scored his first top tier goal, in a 2–1 home win against

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on 10 August. On 11 January 2009, he was presented at

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. On 4 June 2009, Kempes was transferred to Portuguesa, who bought 70% of his federative rights. He failed to impress during his spell at ''Lusa'', and subsequently served loan spells at

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, Ceará, América Mineiro and

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before joining

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permanently on 1 February 2013. Kempes returned to Brazil on 2 March 2015, signing for

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. On 16 December 2015, he joined state rivals Chapecoense.

Death

Kempes was one of the 71 fatal victims from

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crash, on 28 November 2016. The aircraft was taking the Chapecoense team to Medellin where they would play the first match of finals of

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Club statistics

Honours

Club

;Estrela do Norte *

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: 2005 ;Vitória-ES *

: 2006 ;Portuguesa *

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;Chapecoense *

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(posthumously)

Individual

;JEF United Chiba * J2 League Top Goalscorer:

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(22 goals)

References

External links

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