Ricardo Chará Lerma (born 24 May 1990) is a Colombian

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who plays as a defender, and who is currently a free agent.

Club career

Early career

Chara started his youth career with his

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club

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. He then made his first team debut for

Centauros Villavicencio Corporación Deportiva Centauros Villavicencio, was a Colombian football club based in the city of Villavicencio. The club was founded on 14 January 2003 and played its home games at the Manuel Calle Lombana stadium, which has a capacity of 15,0 ...

in the

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Udinese

In summer 2008, he was signed by

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. He then scouted by

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. As the club run out of non-EU registration quota, as signed

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and

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. Along with new signing

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, they were signed by another Italian club, then re-signed them in order to borrow the quota. Chara left for

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on a 1-year loan from Quindío on 1 September 2008. In January 2009, Chara left "on loan" from Cagliari to Udinese and played at Udinese Primavera under-20 team. In summer 2009, along with Basta, they were signed permanently. On 14 January 2010, he played his first match for Udinese. He substituted

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in the 87th minute, on a

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Round of 16 match. The match Udinese won

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of Italian

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(third division) 2–0. On 31 August 2010,

signed

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along with

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in co-ownership deal for €3 million.Empoli FC SpA ''bilancio'' (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2011
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/ref> As part of the deal, Chará and

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joined

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, also in co-ownership deal for a peppercorn in 3-year contract. In June 2012 Udinese reacquired Chará.

International career

At youth level, Chará has been capped for Colombia at the 2005 South American Under-15 Football Championship (4 games 1 brace), at the 2007 South American Under-17 Football Championship (8 games, 1 goal), at the

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(4 games), and at the 2009 South American Youth Championship (2 games 1 goal).http://old.conmebol.com/competiciones_evento_partidos.jsp?evento=1052&ano=2009&slangab=S

References

External links

*
Profile at Udinese Calcio

Profile at La Gazzetta dello Sport
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chara, Ricardo 1990 births Living people Footballers from Cali Colombian men's footballers Colombia men's under-20 international footballers Colombian expatriate men's footballers Serie B players Centauros Villavicencio footballers Cagliari Calcio players Udinese Calcio players Empoli FC players Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Men's association football defenders Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Pan American Games competitors for Colombia