Delfín Benítez Cáceres

Delfín Benítez Cáceres
Personnel
Surname	Delfín Benítez Cáceres
birthday	September 24, 1910
place of birth	Asunción ,  Paraguay
date of death	September 8, 2004
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1932	Libertad Asunción	? 00(?)
1932-1939	Boca Juniors	162 (107)
1939-1941	Racing Club	84 0(65)
1941-1944	Ferro Carril Oeste	66 0(20)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
?	Paraguay	15 00(3)
1934	Argentina	1 00(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1954-1957	Independiente Medellin
1959	Deportivo Español
1 Only league games are given.

Delfín "Machetero" Benítez Cáceres (born September 24, 1910 in Asunción , † September 8, 2004 ) was a Paraguayan football player and football coach . Benítez has been a striker in his active career , played at club level in his home country, Argentina and Colombia, and competed for both the Paraguayan and Argentine football teams . He worked as a trainer in Colombia and Venezuela .

Career

Player career

Benítez began his career with Libertad in his hometown of Asunción . As early as 1930 at the age of 19, he joined the national team at the World Cup in Uruguay . As one of the key players in Paraguay in the early 1930s , the Argentine club Boca Juniors noticed him and signed him in 1932.

In the following seven years, Benítez became an important player in the Juniors team. The striker scored a total of 107 goals in 162 games, making him the fifth most successful goalscorer in the club's history. He also played a game for the Argentine national team . In addition, the Boca Juniors won with Benítez in 1934 and 1935 the championship of the Argentina de Fútbol League . Benítez is also referred to as "probably the best foreign player to ever wear the Boca blue and yellow jersey".

From 1939 Benítez played successively for the Argentine clubs Racing Club de Avellaneda and Ferro Carril Oeste . In 1940, during his time at RC de Avellaneda, he was the top scorer in both the Argentine Primera División and all of South America, together with San Lorenzo's Isidro Lángara, 33 times .

For his home country Paraguay he played 15 games in his career, in which he scored three goals.

Coaching

After retiring from active sports, Benítez became a football coach . He led Independiente Medellín to the Colombian championship title in 1955 and coached the Venezuelan clubs La Salle and Deportivo Español . With the latter club he was 1959 Venezuelan champion. He died in 2004 at the age of 93.

successes

As a player

• 2 × Argentine champions (1934, 1935 each with the Boca Juniors)
• 1 × Argentine top scorer (1940, as a player for Racing Club de Avellaneda)
• 1 × South American top scorer (1940, as a player in Racing Avellaneda)

As a trainer

• Colombian champion 1955 (with Independiente Medellín )
• Venezuelan champion 1959 (with Deportivo Español )

Web links

• Statistics ( Memento of February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
• Biography (spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Los goleadores de la historia de Boca ( Memento of the original of June 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Técnicos y Jugadores Mundialistas que pasaron por el fútbol nacional ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on balonazos.com from June 17, 2014, accessed February 28, 2015