Diego Benítez

Diego Benítez
Personnel
Surname	Diego Fernando Benítez Quintana
birthday	January 23, 1988
place of birth	Rosario ,  Uruguay
size	183 cm
position	attack
Juniors
Years	station
1992–	Club Rosario Atlético
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008–	Plaza Colonia
2009/10	Dinamo Bucharest II	? 0(2)
0000-2010	Defensor Sporting	3 0(0)
at least 2010	Plaza Colonia	18 0(2)
0000–2011	Defensor Sporting
2011–2012	Técnico Universitario	14 0(5)
2012-2015	Universidad Católica	119 (27)
2015	Deportivo Municipal	17 0(3)
2016	SD Aucas	15 0(1)
2016	Cafetaleros de Tapachula	7 0(0)
2017–	CSD Macará	5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 4, 2017

Diego Benítez , full name Diego Fernando Benítez Quintana , (born January 23, 1988 in Rosario ) is a Uruguayan football player .

Career

The 1.83-meter-tall attacking player Benítez, who says his main goal is to play for Peñarol , started playing football at club level at Club Rosario Atlético at the age of four. His professional career began in 2008 at Plaza Colonia . He then played in the 2009/10 season both for the second team Dinamo Bucharest , in whose ranks he scored two league goals, as well as in three games (no goal) of the Clausura 2010 of the Primera División for Defensor Sporting . At least in 2010 he was then again on the Plaza Colonias squad in the Segunda División and completed 18 second division games (two goals) for the Southwest Uruguayans. In August 2011 he moved from Defensor to Ecuador to Técnico Universitario . There he contributed with five goals in 14 missions for promotion from Serie B to Serie A. In March 2012 he joined Universidad Católica . That year he played 36 times in Serie B for his new club, scored 13 times in the opposing goal and was promoted to Serie A again. In 2013 and 2014, he played 38 and 34 top division games and scored nine and three goals respectively. He was also used four times (no goal) in the Copa Sudamericana 2014 . In 2015 he was used eleven times (two goals) in Serie A. In July 2015 he moved to Deportivo Municipal . For the Peruvian first division club, he played in 17 league games and scored three goals. At the beginning of 2016 he continued his career at SD Aucas . With the Ecuadorians he completed 15 league games in Primera A and scored one goal. In the second half of July 2016, he joined the Cafetaleros de Tapachula . With the Mexicans he was used in seven league games and three Copa México matches . At the beginning of January 2017, the CSD Macará signed him . So far (as of March 4, 2017) he has completed five top division games (no goal) for the Ecuador-based club.

Tacuarembó FC is sometimes mentioned as another but undated career station . In addition, he is sometimes credited with belonging to Defensor Sporting before his time at Plaza Colonia.

Others

Benítez has a sister who is around five years older and works as a teacher.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Conoce más a fondo al 'mago', Diego Benítez (Spanish) on teradeportes.com from November 16, 2013, accessed on February 9, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Diego Benítez in the soccerway.com database, accessed March 4, 2017
3. ↑ El refuerzo edil, Diego Benitez, ya está en Lima ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 clubdeportivomunicipal.com from July 16, 2015, accessed on January 30, 2016 
4. ↑ Diego Benítez in the database of footballdatabase.eu (English), accessed on January 30, 2016
5. ↑ Profile on fichajes.com , accessed on February 9, 2015
6. ↑ Diego Benítez estaría en planes de Liga de Quito (Spanish) on larepublica.ec of December 8, 2014, accessed on February 9, 2015
7. ↑ Diego Benítez: 'Carbonero' de cepa (Spanish) on lahora.com.ec from August 18, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2015