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Christian Rogelio Benítez Betancourt (1 May 1986 – 29 July 2013), also known as Chucho, was an Ecuadorian professional
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who played as a striker. He began his career with El Nacional in Ecuador and then joined
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, with whom he won the award for Best Player of the Clausura 2008. He spent the 2009–10 season on
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to
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, and then moved to
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for a Mexican record US$10 million, where he was a regular scorer. He played for El Jaish of the
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at the time of his death. Benitez played 58 times for the
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from his debut in 2005, scoring 24 goals. He played for them at the
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and two
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tournaments. Following his death, the
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retired Benítez's number 11 jersey from the national team. However, due to FIFA regulations they had to reinstate it for the
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squad.


Personal life

Benitez was born in
Quito Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...
, the son of former Ecuador international footballer Ermen Benítez, and Rita Betancourt. In 2007, he married Liseth, daughter of
Cléber Chalá Cléber Manuel Chalá Herrón (born June 29, 1971 in Imbabura) is a retired Ecuadorian football midfielder who played 86 games for the Ecuador national team between 1992 and 2004. Club career At club level he has played mostly for Nacional Quit ...
, also an Ecuador international; she gave birth to twins in August 2009. He played under the nickname ''Chucho'', a name "used in the Spanish-speaking Americas when referring affectionately to a small, pesky dog".


Club career


El Nacional

Due to a series of strong performances for El Nacional, Benítez was scouted by clubs such as
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of Spain, though El Nacional denied any knowledge of the rumoured interest. Benítez contributed 29 goals in 83 league matches as El Nacional won both the 2005 Clausura and 2006 League Championships.


Santos Laguna

In July 2007, he moved to
Santos Laguna Club Santos Laguna S.A. de C.V., simply known as Santos Laguna or Santos, is a Mexican professional football club based in Torreón, Coahuila. The club competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Founded in 1983 as Club Santos I ...
of the
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. 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, succeeding
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's
Édison Méndez Édison Vicente Méndez Méndez (; born March 16, 1979, in Ibarra, Ecuador, Ibarra) is an Ecuadorian football (soccer), football Coach (sport), coach and former player who played as either a Midfielder (football)#Winger, winger or an attacking mi ...
. Despite interest from Portuguese club Benfica, 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.


Loan to Birmingham City

On 3 June 2009,
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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. The move was subject to the striker receiving a work permit and passing a medical. The medical revealed unforeseen knee problems, 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 appearances and success, to a club record $12.5m (£7.7m). The player eventually signed on 7 July. The club later clarified that the initial £1.2m was in fact a loan fee. While recovering from shoulder surgery and awaiting his visa, Benítez played in an all-star match in Ecuador without asking the club's permission. He made his debut as a second-half substitute in Birmingham's opening match of the season, a 1–0 defeat at
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, and came close to equalising, drawing a "wonderful one-handed diving save" from Ben Foster. His first Premier League start came against
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on 19 September; 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". Benítez scored his first goal for the Blues on 9 November away to
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, with a close-range header after
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had nodded the ball on, in a game which finished 2–2. He scored the first of what manager
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described as "two classy goals" as Birmingham knocked Everton out of the
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at
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. 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.


Return to Santos Laguna 2010

On 21 July 2010, Benítez signed a new three-year deal with Santos Laguna, 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
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.


Club América


2011–12 season

Benitez signed to play for América on 22 May 2011. The transfer fee was reported to be of $10 million, which established a record for a club in Mexico. He scored a goal in his debut on 24 July in the 2–1 win against
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. On 21 August, Benítez made his first hat trick with América against
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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 against Querétaro. He ended the season with 14 goals and ended up being the league's top scorer along with
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.


2012–13 season

Benítez played his first game of the
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season on 21 July against Monterrey, in a 0–0 away draw. On 28 July, he scored his first goals of the season in a 4–2 victory over
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. On 11 November, Benitez became joint top goal-scorer of the 2012 Apertura alongside Atlante's
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. Three days later, he scored both goals in a 2–0 play-off quarter-final win away to
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. Benítez scored his first goals of the 2013 Clausura season in a 2–0 away win against Jaguares de Chiapas. On 2 March, he scored a hat trick, 2 headers and a left-footed strike against
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in a 3–0 win. On 27 April, 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 as the Clausura 2013 Liga MX top scorer for the third consecutive season. On 26 May 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

Benítez left the club on 6 July 2013, and signed a contract with Qatari club El Jaish. He made his debut in a match against
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in the
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on 28 July "without complaining of any health problems", according to El Jaish officials. 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
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in Germany. Although considered by many as a surprise selection by coach Luis Fernando Suárez, he had impressed with his speed, elusiveness and skill in pre-World Cup showings against the
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and
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, in addition to his
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experience. He was a candidate for the Gillette Best Young Player Award, a new award made at the end of the
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to the best young player born on or after 1 January 1985. His only appearance was in the 3–0 loss to
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, replacing
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midway through the match. His first international goal came in September 2006 against
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. Then, in April 2007, he scored another goal against Peru in Ecuador's 2–0 win in a friendly match held in the
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in Barcelona, Spain. He also scored in a 1–1 draw with the
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, also in a friendly, played in
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on 23 May 2007. This added to the belief that he could excel in Europe. Benítez started all three games during the
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, scoring against
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as Ecuador were eliminated in the first stage, losing all three matches. In an international friendly against
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on 8 September 2007, Benítez scored twice in an emphatic 5–1 home win in Quito. In a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier against
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, he scored his country's third goal in a 3–1 win. A month later, he scored the only goal against Chile.


Death and legacy

On 29 July 2013, Benítez entered a hospital in
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,
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, because of a severe pain in his abdomen. According to
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and other teammates in an interview with Mexican morning show ''Matutino Express'', he did not receive immediate medical attention and a few hours later, Benítez went into
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. He died from complications leading to
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at the age of 27. Tens of thousands of people filed past the body, which lay in a glass-topped casket in the Coliseo General Rumiñahui in Quito, before the public funeral ceremony, which was attended by sporting and political figures including the president of Ecuador,
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. The cortege received a police motorcycle escort through crowded streets to a private interment. Following his death, the
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announced that it would retire his number 11 jersey from the national team. FIFA regulations required Ecuador to reinstate number 11 to their squad for the
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in Brazil; it was allocated to
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. His international teammate
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had Benítez's number tattooed onto his upper arm in tribute after his death. A multipurpose stadium was constructed and named in his honour in
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; opened in February 2014, it is used as the home stadium of Guayaquil City F.C. Later that year, a statue of Benítez in typical
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pose was unveiled at Santos Laguna's stadium. He was the third Santos player to be so honoured, after
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and
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.


Career statistics


Club


International goals

:''Scores and results list Ecuador's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Benítez goal''.


Honors


Club

El Nacional *
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: 2005 Clausura,
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Santos Laguna *
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: Clausura 2008 Club América *
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: Clausura 2013


Individual

*
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Best Player: 2006 Serie A *
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Golden Ball: Clausura 2008, Apertura 2012 *
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Golden Boot: Apertura 2010, Clausura 2012, Apertura 2012, Clausura 2013


References


External links

*
Player details
at Ecuadorian Football Federation *
ESPN Profile
at Birmingham City F.C. website {{DEFAULTSORT:Benitez, Christian 1986 births 2013 deaths Footballers from Quito Ecuadorian men's footballers 21st-century Ecuadorian sportsmen Ecuador men's international footballers Men's association football forwards C.D. El Nacional footballers Santos Laguna footballers Birmingham City F.C. players Club América footballers El Jaish SC players Ecuadorian Serie A players Liga MX players Premier League players 2006 FIFA World Cup players 2007 Copa América players 2011 Copa América players Ecuadorian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in England Expatriate men's footballers in Qatar Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in England Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar African diaspora in Ecuador Respiratory disease deaths in Qatar Deaths from respiratory failure