Otilino Tenorio

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Otilino Tenorio
Personnel
Surname Otilino George Tenorio Bastidas
birthday February 1, 1980
place of birth Guayaquil ,  Ecuador
date of death May 7, 2005
Place of death Patricia Pilar ,  Ecuador
size 175 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2003 Emelec Guayaquil 142 (43)
2001 → Santa Rita Vinces (loan)
2003-2004 al-Nasr
2004-2005 El Nacional Quito 19 (11)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002-2005 Ecuador 12 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Otilino George Tenorio Bastidas (born February 1, 1980 in Guayaquil , † May 7, 2005 with Patricia Pilar in the province of Los Ríos ) was an Ecuadorian football player .

Tenorio's parents moved from Esmeraldas to Guayaquil in 1971 , where they lived in a modest neighborhood; his father worked as a construction worker, trader and security guard. Tenorio began his career at Emelec Guayaquil after being spotted at a neighborhood youth tournament. Since 1998 he played in the first team. At the beginning of 2004, he moved to the Saudi Arabian club Al-Nasr before joining the Ecuadorian first division club El Nacional Quito . There he rose to become one of the best strikers in the country. Most recently, he finished second in the scorers list of the national championship.

He was a national player and was considered one of the team's hopes in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup . He made his debut on October 16, 2002 in a friendly against Costa Rica in San José and last played on May 4, 2005 in a friendly at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which Ecuador beat Paraguay 1-0. He scored six goals in a total of 13 international matches. In two friendly matches on January 26 and 29, 2005 against Panama, Tenorio managed to score both goals in both cases, making it 2-0 for Ecuador.

According to the authorities, Otilino Tenorio died on May 7, 2005 at the age of 25 in a car accident. Accordingly, on the way to his parents in the coastal city of Guayaquil, he raced his car on the main road between Santo Domingo de los Colorados and Quevedo about 280 kilometers southwest of Quito in an overtaking maneuver in a truck that had loaded gas bottles. According to press reports, up to 12,000 followers attended his funeral in Guayaquil. Tenorio left behind his wife and three young children. After Tenorio's father filed a complaint against two of his son's fellow travelers on June 13th on suspicion of murder, the public prosecutor's office opened a more detailed investigation, but this did not lead to any new results.

Tenorio was nicknamed El Enmarascado (dt. The masked ) or Spiderman del Fútbol , as he used to celebrate his goals with different masks that resembled that of Spider-Man . At the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Iván Kaviedes remembered Tenorio by wearing a yellow Spider-Man mask after he scored 3-0 in the group game against Costa Rica. Striker Edmundo Zura also celebrated his goals with a Spider-Man mask as a tribute to Tenorio. In March 2007, in response to Kaviedes' jubilation at the World Cup , the International Football Association Board banned the use of face masks to celebrate goals.

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personal data
SURNAME Tenorio, Otilino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tenorio Bastidas, Otilino George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ecuadorian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Guayaquil , Ecuador
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2005
Place of death with Patricia Pilar, Los Ríos Province , Ecuador