Édison Chará

Édison Chará
Personal information
Full nameEdison Hipólito Chará Lucumí
Date of birth2 October 1980
Place of birthPadilla, Cauca, Colombia
Date of death19 October 2011 (aged 31)
Place of deathCali, Colombia
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing positionStriker
Youth career
2000Atlético Huila
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2001Deportivo Pereira9(1)
2001–2005Deportivo Cali5(1)
2002Atlético Huila (loan)4(0)
2004→ Montevideo Wanderers (loan)9(1)
2004–2005América de Cali (loan)22(5)
2005–2006Once Caldas14(0)
2006Cienciano18(7)
2007Sporting Cristal27(2)
2008Once Caldas9(1)
2008–2010Juan Aurich49(12)
2010–2011Deportivo Pereira10(0)
2011Unión Comercio1(0)
2011Dalian Aerbin8(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Édison Hipólito Chará Lucumí (2 October 1980 – 19 October 2011) was a Colombian football striker. His last team was Chinese club Dalian Aerbin.

Career

Chará began his career with Deportivo Cali and joined in January 2003 to local rival América de Cali. After seventeen games, when scored four goals for América de Cali, was transferred to the Peruvian club Cienciano. The fast striker played one year for Cienciano, where scored nine goals in twenty one games and was scouted from Sporting Cristal on 28 December 2006.[1] Chará played only ten games and scored four goals in the season 2007/2008, was linked with Energie Cottbus[2] and left after of the season his club to sign for Juan Aurich.

Chará moved to China League One club Dalian Aerbin in March 2011 [3] and was released in July 2011.

Chará died at a hospital in Cali on 19 October 2011, after having been shot by hitmen in Puerto Tejada, Cauca.[4]

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