Agustín Delgado

Agustín Delgado
Personnel
Surname	Agustín Javier Delgado Chalá
birthday	23rd December 1974
place of birth	El Juncal ,  Ecuador
size	188 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	CD Espoli
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1991-1993	CD Espoli
1993-1998	Barcelona SC Guayaquil	34 (15)
1996-1997	→  CD El Nacional  (loan)	30 (18)
1998-1999	CD Cruz Azul	8 0(2)
1999-2001	Necaxa	83 (35)
2001-2004	Southampton FC	11 0(1)
2004	SD Aucas	13 0(7)
2004-2005	UNAM Pumas	7 0(1)
2005-2006	Barcelona SC Guayaquil	37 (10)
2006-2008	LDU Quito	70 (24)
2009	CS Emelec	8 0(0)
2010	CD Valle del Chota	7 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1994-2006	Ecuador	71 (31)
1 Only league games are given.

Agustín Javier Delgado Chalá (nickname "El Tin") (born December 23, 1974 in El Juncal , a village in the Chota Valley , which politically belongs to the canton of Ibarra in the Imbabura province ) is a former Ecuadorian football player . He was considered a versatile, very dangerous goal, but relatively slow player. He was particularly strong in the header game.

Between 1994 and 2006 he scored 31 goals in 71 games for the Ecuadorian national team , of which he is the record scorer. Due to knee and back problems, Delgado has rarely been able to train unrestrictedly in recent years, which is why he resigned from the national team after the 2006 World Cup. On September 14, 2007 he officially announced his final resignation, for which he gave the health reasons mentioned. Delgado last played after a long career in the 2010 season for his own club CD Valle del Chota in the Ecuadorian second division and announced his retirement from professional football in February 2011.

career

Delgado moved for an unknown transfer fee in January 2005 from the Mexican club UNAM Pumas to Barcelona SC Guayaquil , and was loaned from there to LDU Quito in January 2006 after "discipline problems". Before that he played with CD Cruz Azul and Necaxa in Mexico and in England with FC Southampton . He was the first Ecuadorian player in the Premier League . With Necaxa he took part at the side of his compatriot Álex Aguinaga at the Club World Cup in Rio de Janeiro in 2000 and scored two goals against Real Madrid and South Melbourne FC .

At the 2002 World Cup, he scored the first ever goal in Ecuador to make it 1: 2 in the preliminary round against Mexico. With nine goals, Delgado and Hernán Crespo were already top scorer in the CONMEBOL qualification for the 2002 World Cup. He was also nominated for the 2006 World Cup in Germany and scored the second goal in his team's first game against the Polish national soccer team to a surprising final score of 2: 0. Delgado also scored the second goal in a 3-0 win in the second game against the Costa Rica national team. With three goals he is the record scorer in Ecuador so far at world championships.

In November 2006, Delgado caused a sensation in Ecuador when he verbally criticized the President of the Ecuadorian Football Association for not having paid outstanding World Cup bonuses. On December 20, 2006, he was suspended for 12 months after actively participating in a fight between players from LDU Quito and Barcelona SC Guayaquil following the last game of the season a few days earlier. The brawl broke out after Delgado accused Barcelona SC defender Víctor Montoya of deliberately fouling his injured knee and assaulting him. After revision efforts were not allowed, Delgado planned a move to the New York Red Bulls in the Major League Soccer , as the board of the Ecuadorian Football Association had indicated that the sentence would not be extended beyond the borders of Ecuador. On February 23, 2007, however, the FIFA surprisingly recognized the penalty internationally, whereby the change was void. A formal protest at FIFA was rejected at the end of March 2007, but Delgado's sentence was reduced at an extraordinary congress of the Ecuadorian Football Association in May 2007, so that he was eligible to play again on June 19, 2007. He received a new contract with LDU Quito until the end of the 2007 season, in which the league won the championship with Delgados Schützenhilfe. His contract was also extended for the 2008 season. That season, Liga won the Copa Libertadores , although Delgado was not a regular player, but was used as a substitute in numerous games. Delgado had already been in the Barcelona SC Guayaquil squad in 1998 when this team reached the final of the Copa Libertadores. After the 2008 season, his contract ran out. After the start of the 2009 season, he moved to CS Emelec in Guayaquil, where his club was not renewed at the end of the 2009 season.

Since July 2010, he has occasionally played games for the CD Valle del Chota club he founded in the regional third division of Ecuador. The club rose after the 2010 season in the single-track second Ecuadorian league, whereupon Delgado announced that it would limit itself to administrative and management activities in the club. The club emerged from a football school that Delgado founded and had narrowly missed promotion twice in previous years.

Social engagement and other activities

In 2002, Delgado founded the Fundación Agustín Delgado , which enables poor children to receive education, nutrition, medical care and physical activity in his hometown, the Chota Valley.

In August 2006, the Ecuadorian President sent him to the Corporación de Desarrollo Afroecuatoriano (Codea), a state organization for the development of areas populated by Afroecuatorians.

successes

• Copa Libertadores 2008
• Ecuadorian champion: 1996, 1997, 2007
• Mexican champion: 2001, 2004
• Top scorer in South American World Cup qualification in 2002

Web links

• List of all international matches and goals at rsssf.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Agustín Delgado renuncia a jugar por la selección de Ecuador ( Memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), RPP Noticias, September 14, 2007 (Spanish)
2. ↑ ^{a b} El Adiós del Tin Delgado , futbolecuador.com, February 16, 2011.
3. ↑ {{Web archive | url = http: //www.tvecuador.com/index.php? Tp = r1499.php | wayback = 20111129042949 | text = - | archiv-bot = 2018-08-22 11:39:24 InternetArchiveBot }} (Link not available)