Gastón Benedetti | |
Fullname: | Gastón Benedetti Taffarel |
Birth Date: | 21 March 2001 |
Birth Place: | Larroque, Entre Ríos, Argentina |
Height: | 174cm |
Position: | Defender |
Currentclub: | Estudiantes de La Plata |
Clubnumber: | 13 |
Youthyears1: | 2012-2022 |
Youthclubs1: | Estudiantes de La Plata |
Years1: | 2022– |
Clubs1: | Estudiantes |
Caps1: | 42 |
Goals1: | 2 |
Years2: | 2022 |
Clubs2: | → Guillermo Brown (loan) |
Caps2: | 17 |
Goals2: | 0 |
Club-Update: | 20:13, 8 May 2024 (UTC) |
Gastón Benedetti Taffarel (born 29 March 2001) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Estudiantes in the Argentine Primera División.
From Larroque, Entre Ríos. He joined Estudiantes de La Plata in 2012.[1] In 2018 Benedetti had progressed to the reserve side and was categoried as a left-winger but was beginning to play deeper on occasion as well. He played as Estudiantes won the Youth Super League in 2019.[2] [3] [4] He later became captain of the reserve team.[5]
Benedetti spent the 2022 season on loan at Guillermo Brown in Puerto Madryn, playing seventeen times for them in the Primera Nacional.[6]
In 2023 he was given a place at left-back for Estudiantes by manager Eduardo Dominguez, making his debut in a 3-0 league win over Newells Old Boys on March 31, 2023.[7] [8] He was given a run in the side and they didn't lose in his first eight matches in all competitions, and in his ninth he scored his first and second goals for the club, in a 2–0 win over Velez Sarsfield, with the second goal assisted by debutant Axel Atum.[9] [10]
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