Darío Benedetto
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Darío Ismael Benedetto | ||
Date of birth | 17 May 1990 | ||
Place of birth | Berazategui, Argentina | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Boca Juniors | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008–2013 | Arsenal de Sarandí | 50 | (9) |
2010 | → Defensa y Justicia (loan) | 23 | (2) |
2011 | → Gimnasia de Jujuy (loan) | 19 | (11) |
2013–2015 | Tijuana | 43 | (21) |
2015–2016 | América | 49 | (17) |
2016– | Boca Juniors | 25 | (21) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 June 2017 |
Darío Ismael Benedetto (born 17 May 1990) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Boca Juniors.
Club career
Early career
Darío Benedetto began his career playing for Arsenal de Sarandí in 2008. He was loaned out to Defensa y Justicia in 2010, and then to Gimnasia in 2011, appearing in 19 matches and scoring 11 goals.[1]
Tijuana
In the summer of 2013, Arsenal sold Benedetto to Mexican club Xolos de Tijuana. On 19 July, he scored a hat-trick on his league debut for the club in a 3–3 draw against Atlas at the Estadio Caliente. Benedetto would not score again until 1 November, scoring a brace against Atlante. For the 2014 Clausura, Benedetto managed to score 7 goals for the club, and scored one in the quarter-finals of the play-offs. The following tournament, the 2014 Apertura, Benedetto scored 9 goals for Tijuana, making him the fourth-best goal scorer of the tournament, behind leaders Mauro Boselli and Camilo Sanvezzo, who scored 12 goals, and Dorlan Pabón, who scored 11 goals. He also had 4 assists. In total, Benedetto scored 21 goals in 43 appearances for Xolos.[2]
América
On 15 December 2014, it was announced that Benedetto was sold to Club América on a four-year contract. Though details of the transfer went undisclosed, it was believed that América paid US$8 million for the player. He made his debut on 10 January 2015 in América's opening game of the Clausura tournament, a 3–2 victory over León at the Estadio Azteca, providing the assist for Oribe Peralta's second goal. He scored his first goal in a league game against Tigres UANL.[3]
Benedetto was named the best player of the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League, and also won the Golden Boot with teammate Oribe Peralta, scoring seven goals in three matches; four in the 6–0 win over Herediano in the second leg of the semi-finals, and a hat-trick in the 5–3 aggregate victory over Montreal Impact in the Finals.[4]
Boca Juniors
On 6 June 2016, Benedetto left to Boca Juniors from America after asking for the transfer. [5] On 25 September, he scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 win against Quilmes at La Bombonera. Although resisted at first, Benedetto was the MVP that lead Boca Juniors to is 32nd national title.
Honours
- América
- Boca Juniors
Individual
References
- ^ "Xolos sign Darío Benedetto".
- ^ Darío Benedetto – Liga MX stats at MedioTiempo.com (archived) (in Spanish)
- ^ "Revive cómo fue el América 1 - 0 Tigres". 31 January 2015.
- ^ "Club America beat the Montreal Impact 5-3 on aggregate to win CCL".
- ^ "Darío Benedetto deja al América para jugar con Boca Juniors". Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- Use dmy dates from September 2012
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Argentine footballers
- Argentine expatriate footballers
- Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy footballers
- Arsenal de Sarandí footballers
- Defensa y Justicia footballers
- Club Tijuana footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Mexico
- People from Berazategui Partido
- Club América footballers
- Boca Juniors footballers
- Argentine Primera División players
- Liga MX players
- Naturalized citizens of Mexico
- Argentine football forward stubs