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Cristian Lema
Personal information
Full name Cristian Franco Lema
Date of birth (1990-03-24) 24 March 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Puerto Madryn, Argentina
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
 Benfica
Number 25
Youth career
1998–2009 Guillermo Brown
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2009 Guillermo Brown 30 (1)
2010–2011 Newell's Old Boys 12 (0)
2011–2012 → Tigre (loan) 8 (0)
2012–2014 → Quilmes (loan) 38 (2)
2014–2018 Belgrano 106 (16)
2018– Benfica 1 (0)
2019 → Peñarol (loan) 13 (2)
2019–2020 → Newell's Old Boys (loan) 22 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 July 2020

Cristian Franco Lema (born 24 March 1990) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Benfica as a centre-back.

Club career

Born in Puerto Madryn, Lema started his football career aged 8 at hometown club Guillermo Brown. He debuted for their senior team in 2007 and left the club in 2009.[1]

A year later, Lema joined Newell's Old Boys and made his Argentine Primera División debut in a 0–0 home draw to Godoy Cruz in November.[1] After playing 12 matches with the former side, he moved on loan to Tigre in June 2011,[1][2] and there he played 11 matches, scoring one goal.[1] In July 2012, aged 22, he was loaned out to Quilmes,[1][2] with whom he would play 40 matches and score 2 goals before moving to Belgrano in 2014.[1] In his four-year spell with the latter, he became the club's defender with the most league goals ever, 16 in 123 matches. Moreover, he debuted in Copa Sudamericana in 2015.[1]

In June 2018, Lema moved to Portugal and signed a five-year contract with S.L. Benfica.[3] In February 2019, after playing only two matches for the Lisbon side in October, he was loaned to Uruguayan club Peñarol until June 2019, with option to buy.[4] Afterwards, he was loaned out to Newell's Old Boys for 2019–20.[5]

Honours

Benfica

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Rebelo, Marco (22 June 2018). "Perfil de Lema" [Lema profile]. S.L. Benfica (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b Cristian Lema at Soccerway Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Garcia, Filipa Fernandes (22 June 2018). "Welcome, Lema!". S.L. Benfica. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  4. ^ "Oficial: Lema no Peñarol com opção de compra" [Official: Lema at Peñarol with option to buy]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 7 February 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  5. ^ "Futebol: Lema emprestado" [Football: Lema loaned out]. S.L. Benfica (in Portuguese). 10 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  6. ^ "São estes os campeões nacionais pelo Benfica em 2018/19" [These are the national champions for Benfica in 2018–19]. Record (in Portuguese). 18 May 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
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