Cristopher Benjamín Toselli Ríos (, born 15 June 1988) is a

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who plays as a

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for

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. Toselli is best known for beating

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's clean sheet record of 484 minutes during 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup of

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, surpassing him by eight minutes and completing 492 minutes in total, helping Chilean youth squad to a third-place finish. In 2009, he was a member of

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's 23-man squad who won the

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, a tournament that Cristopher lost in 2008 against

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under

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as coach.

Club career

Universidad Católica

Early career

Born in

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, Toselli joined Universidad Católica youth ranks in 2001, being promoted to first-team by the coach Jorge Pellicer in 2006 for the Torneo Apertura, due to the departure of second-choice keeper Rainer Wirth to Deportes Temuco. The following year, after a notable performance in the

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, he made his club debut on 25 November, during a 3–0 home win to

Coquimbo Unido Coquimbo Unido is a Chilean football club based in the city of Coquimbo. The club was founded August 30, 1958 and will play in the Chilean Primera División on 2022. Their home games are played at the Estadio Municipal Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso ...

played at San Carlos. The next season, he was challenging the goal with record-man José María Buljubasich, becoming the first-choice keeper, after their mistakes and its departure to Olimpia. When he played the

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final against

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, that Chile won 1–0 to ''Les Blues'', Toselli suffered a strong injury of six months, that caused indignation Católica's coach

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for provide him to a tournament and take risk, because he was Figueroa's starter keeper. During his recovery time, second-choice keeper

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broke into first team, therefore relegated him to the bench.

2010 season

On 5 December 2010, Toselli played in the Primera División final match against Everton, where his club was consecrated champion after defeat 5–0 to Viña del Mar based–team at home.

2011 season

On 11 May 2011, he recovered his titularity under orders of Juan Antonio Pizzi after a terrible mistake of Garcés in a Copa Libertadores quarterfinals match against

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at Montevideo, where inexplicably dropped the ball, which

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take the opportunity for score the definitive 2–0 in the 90th minute. After losing against

the playoffs finals of the Torneo Apertura, was installed again as starter keeper with the new coach Mario Lepe, after the departures of Pizzi and Garcés. On 16 November, Toselli won the

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final to Magallanes, being that his second title at Católica, that qualified his team 2012 Copa Sudamericana, which ''Los Cruzados'' were eliminated on semifinals against Brazilian side

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after two draws, where Toselli had very well performances.

International career

During his early career, Toselli represented Chile U17 at the

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, playing in four matches. Later, Toselli was called up to the Chile U20 national team for the

2007 South American Youth Championship The 2007 South American Youth Championship (Sudamericano Sub-20) was the 23rd edition of the competition. It was played in Paraguay between 7 and 28 January 2007, and was contested by all ten U-20 national football teams of CONMEBOL. This was t ...

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. He started in the national team as second goalkeeper until the third game of tournament, in where he relegates to the

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player Richard Leyton to his place. Finally, Chile finished in the fourth place of the final stage of the tournament with six points alongside

, however the guaranies had a lower goal difference of Chile, giving the pass to Chile to the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup celebrated in

. In the U-20 World Cup, Toselli was Chile's outstanding goalkeeper with a notable performance by him and his team in the cup, finishing in the third place of the tournament, after beating 1–0

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. However, he broke Brazilian goalkeeper

's record of 484 minutes without conceding goals in a Youth World Cup, achieving 492 minutes in total, eight more than the Brazilian. After of his U-20 World Cup performances, he was nominated to the

three years consecutively (2008–2010). In 2008 (U23 squad), Toselli was nominated by the coach

and once was Chile's outstanding goalkeeper, being runner-up of the tournament with Chile, after of be defeated 1–0 by

. In 2009 (U21 squad), he was once again nominated to play the Toulon Tournament, which Chile would win, suffering a six-month injury in the final against the

, which Chile won 1–0 with a goal from Gerson Martínez at 86th minute. In 2010 (U22 squad), Chile reached the fourth place. In addition, Toselli played in a

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against Mexico U22 in San Luis Potosí,

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on September 3, 2011. The squad only included under-25 players and was a win by 1–3. Toselli was called up by Bielsa to play his first senior international game for his country against

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, match that ended in a 2–1 victory of Chile. During the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification process, he was nominated by Bielsa as third goalkeeper with frequency. For the

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, it was supposed that Toselli would be the third goalkeeper of Chile, but finally Luis Marín was who achieved this place. Toselli would be called up by Bielsa's successors Claudio Borghi and

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during the 2014 World Cup qualifiers and was eventually included in the 23-man squad that played the

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Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Club

;Universidad Católica * Primera División (5): 2010, 2016–C, 2016–A,

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(1): 2011 * Supercopa de Chile (2):

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* Friendlies (1): Torneo de Verano Fox Sports 2019

International

;Chile U20 *

: Third Place 2007 ;Chile U21 *

(1): 2009 ;Chile * Copa del Pacífico (1):

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* Copa América (1):

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: Runner-up

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(1):

Individual

* Best goalkeeper of Toulon Tournament (1): 2009 *

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(1):

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Toselli, Cristopher 1988 births Living people Chilean men's footballers Chilean expatriate men's footballers Sportspeople from Antofagasta Chilean people of Italian descent Men's association football goalkeepers Chile men's under-20 international footballers Chile men's youth international footballers Chile men's international footballers 2014 FIFA World Cup players Copa América Centenario players 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup players Copa América-winning players Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers Atlas F.C. footballers Everton de Viña del Mar footballers Club Deportivo Palestino footballers Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero footballers Chilean Primera División players Liga MX players Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina