Cléber Chalá Explained

Cléber Chalá
Fullname:Cléber Manuel Chalá Herrón
Height:1.83 m
Birth Date:1971 6, df=yes
Birth Place:Imbabura, Ecuador
Position:Midfielder
Years1:1990–2001
Years2:2001–2002
Years3:2002–2003
Years4:2004
Years5:2004
Years6:2005–2008
Clubs1:El Nacional
Clubs2:Southampton
Clubs3:El Nacional
Clubs4:Deportivo Quito
Clubs5:Universidad San Martín
Clubs6:El Nacional
Caps1:359
Caps2:0
Caps3:45
Caps4:28
Caps5:15
Caps6:60
Goals1:77
Goals2:0
Goals3:16
Goals4:7
Goals5:2
Goals6:9
Totalcaps:507
Totalgoals:111
Nationalyears1:1992–2004
Nationalteam1:Ecuador
Nationalcaps1:86
Nationalgoals1:6

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.[1]

Club career

At club level he has played mostly for Nacional Quito where he has made over 450 appearances and participated in 4 Ecuadorian league championship winning campaigns (1992, 1996, 2005A & 2006).

He has also played club football for Deportivo Quito and Universidad San Martín de Porres in Peru. He also had a spell in England with Southampton but never played in the first team.[2] He was signed along with fellow countryman Agustín Delgado, but neither made an impact in English football.

International career

Chalá played for Ecuador at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and in the 1993 Copa América,[3] 1997 Copa América[4] and 2001 Copa América[5]

Personal life

He was father-in-law to fellow Ecuadorian footballer Christian Benítez, who married Chalá's daughter Lizeth in 2007.[6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/ecua-recintlp.html rsssf: Ecuador record international footballers
  2. http://www.thesaintshub.com/cleberchala.html Cleber Chala
  3. https://www.rsssf.org/tables/93safull.html Copa América 1993
  4. https://www.rsssf.org/tables/97safull.html Copa América 1997
  5. https://www.rsssf.org/tables/2001safull.html Copa América 2001
  6. http://lahistoria.ec/2014/07/28/el-chucho-benitez-estaba-condenado-morir/ Un año después: ¿el Chucho Benítez estaba condenado a morir?