Duilio Benítez

Duilio Benitez
Personal information
Full name Jorge Duilio Benitez Candia
Date of birth (1927-04-23)23 April 1927
Place of birth Yaguarón, Paraguay
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1945–1949 Nacional
1949–1951[3] Boca Juniors[2] 44 (18)
1952–1956 Flamengo 56 (43)
1956–1957 Náutico[4] 18 (15)
1958–1959[5] Club Almagro 21 (11)
1960 Deportivo Morón 4 (2)
International career
1949 Paraguay[1] 7 (7)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.[1]

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.[6]

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

Nacional

Boca Juniors

Flamengo

International

South American Championship: Runners-up 1949

References

  1. ^ a b http://www.nacionalquerido.com/ (in Spanish)
  2. ^ Statistics at Historia de Boca (in Spanish)
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 June 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ [1] Archived 14 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine História do Futebol (in Portuguese)
  5. ^ [2] Base de Datos del Futbol Argentino (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Profile Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine at Historia de Boca (in Spanish)