Jorge Duilio Benítez
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Jorge Duilio Benitez Candia | ||
Date of birth | 23 April 1927 | ||
Place of birth | Yaguarón, Paraguay | ||
Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1945–1949 | Nacional | ||
1949–1951[1] | Boca Juniors[2] | 44 | (18) |
1952–1956 | Flamengo | 56 | (43) |
1956–1957 | Náutico | ||
National team | |||
1949 | Paraguay[3] | 7 | (7) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Jorge Duílio Benítez Candia (born 23 April 1927) is a former Paraguayan football Attacking midfielder.
Career
Benítez holds the all-time highest goalscorer record for Paraguay in a single match: Four goals against Bolivia in the 1949 South American Championship.[3]
Benítez suffered from heart problems, thus when he signed with Argentine club Boca Juniors in 1949 a clause in his contract specified that he was the sole responsible for the risks of playing with such condition.[4]
In the years 1956 e 1957, played for Náutico. Despite not having won any title in the lands of Pernambuco, stood out next to the attacker Ivson.
Honours
Club
- Primera División: 1946
- Primera División: Runners-up 1950
- Campeonato Carioca: 1953, 1954, 1955
International
South American Championship: Runners-up 1949
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 June 2010. Retrieved 2009-09-13. (in Spanish)
- ↑ Statistics at Historia de Boca (in Spanish)
- 1 2 http://www.nacionalquerido.com/ (in Spanish)
- ↑ Profile Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. at Historia de Boca (in Spanish)
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