Guilherme Gimenez de Souza (18 June 1995 – 28 November 2016), simply known as Gimenez, was a Brazilian footballer who last played for Chapecoense. Mainly a right back, he also played as a defensive midfielder. Gimenez was one of the victims when

LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 LaMia Flight 2933 was a charter flight of an Avro RJ85, operated by LaMia, that on 28 November 2016 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 of the 77 people on board. The aircraft was transporting the Brazilian Chapecoense football squad a ...

crashed on 28 November 2016.

Club career

Born in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Gimenez represented Olé Brasil and Comercial-SP as a youth. Promoted to the latter's first team in the middle of 2013, he made his senior debut on 21 July of that year by starting in a 0–0

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away draw against

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. Gimenez also appeared twice on the bench for two

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matches before rescinding his contract on 17 April 2014, due to unpaid wages. Eight days later, he signed a three-year contract with cross-town rivals

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. Gimenez scored his first senior goal on 5 April 2015, netting the last in a 2–0 home win against São Paulo for the ''Paulistão'' championship. In June, he was bought by a group of businessmen and was signed by Série A club Goiás. He made his top tier debut on 18 July, being booked in a 1–2 away loss against Internacional. Gimenez featured in 23 matches for the ''Esmeraldino'', suffering relegation at the end of the campaign. On 17 December 2015, he signed a one-year contract with fellow top level club Chapecoense.

Death

On 28 November 2016, whilst at the service of Chapecoense, Gimenez was among the fatalities of the

accident in the Colombian village of Cerro Gordo,

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Career statistics

Honours

;Chapecoense * Campeonato Catarinense:

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(posthumously)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gimenez 1995 births 2016 deaths Brazilian footballers People from Ribeirão Preto Association football defenders Association football midfielders Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Comercial Futebol Clube (Ribeirão Preto) players Botafogo Futebol Clube (SP) players Goiás Esporte Clube players Associação Chapecoense de Futebol players Footballers killed in the LaMia Flight 2933 crash Footballers from São Paulo (state)