AgustÃn Delgado
Agustín Javier Delgado Chalá (nicknamed " El Tin " ) ( born December 23, 1974 in El Juncal, a village in Chota Valley, the politically belongs to the canton of the province of Imbabura Ibarra ) is a retired Ecuadorian football player. He was regarded as a versatile, very prolific, but relatively slower players. Particularly strong he was in the head ball game.
Between 1994 and 2006 he scored 31 goals in 71 games for the Ecuadorian national team, their record goalscorer he is. Due to knee and back problems Delgado could rarely train fully in recent years, which is why he resigned from the national team after the World Cup 2006. On 14 September 2007 he officially declared his final resignation, for he gave the said health reasons. Delgado played after a long career last in the 2010 season for his own club CD Valle del Chota in the second Ecuadorian league and declared in February 2011 his retirement from professional football.
Career
Delgado joined for an undisclosed fee in January 2005 by the Mexican club UNAM Pumas to Barcelona SC Guayaquil, and was borrowed from there in January 2006 for " discipline problems " in Liga de Quito. Previously, he played among others at Necaxa and Cruz Azul in Mexico and England at Southampton FC. He was the first Ecuadorian player in the Premier League. With Necaxa he participated alongside his compatriot Álex Aguinaga at the Club World Cup in 2000 in Rio de Janeiro and scored two goals against Real Madrid and South Melbourne FC.
At the 2002 World Cup he scored the first goal ever in Ecuador in a World Cup to 1:2 in the group match against Mexico. With nine goals Delgado was together with Hernán Crespo already scorer in the CONMEBOL qualifiers for the 2002 World Cup, he was also nominated for the 2006 World Cup in Germany and shot in the first game of his team against the Polish national football team 's second goal for the surprising final score of 2. : 0 In the second game against the national team of Costa Rica Delgado scored the second goal in a 3-0 victory. It is thus a three-goal scorer previous Ecuador at the World Championships.
In November 2006, Delgado made in Ecuador for a stir when he verbally clearly criticized the President of the Ecuadorian Football Federation, as the association had not been paid outstanding premiums of the World Cup. On 20 December 2006, a barrier of 12 months was imposed after he had actively taken part in a brawl between players from Liga de Quito and Barcelona SC Guayaquil following the last season game a few days earlier against him. The brawl broke out after the defender Víctor Delgado Montoya Barcelona SC accused to have fouled his injured knee and deliberately attacked him physically. After Revisionsmühungen was not granted, Delgado was planning a move to New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer, as the Executive Board of the Ecuadorian Football Federation had stated the punishment would not be extended beyond the borders of Ecuador. On 23 February 2007, the FIFA recognized the punishment but surprisingly internationally, so the change was void. A formal protest with FIFA was dismissed in March 2007, but Delgado's sentence was reduced to an extraordinary congress of the Ecuadorian Football Federation in May 2007, so that he was eligible to play again since 19 June 2007. He was awarded a new contract with Liga de Quito until the end of the 2007 season, in the league with Delgados Help Protect won the championship. Also for the 2008 season, his contract was extended. This season League won the Copa Libertadores, where Delgado was indeed not a regular player, but in many games came into use as a substitute. Already in 1998, Delgado had been in the squad of Barcelona SC Guayaquil, as 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 Guayaquil, where his club was not renewed at the end of the 2009 season.
Since July 2010, he played occasional games for the club he founded CD Valle del Chota in the regional discharged third division of Ecuador. The club was relegated after the 2010 season in the second single-track Ecuadorian league, whereupon Delgado announced to be limited to administrative and management activities in the club. The club went from a football school, founded Delgado, forth and had previously just missed in the years twice the rise.
Social involvement and other activities
Delgado in 2002 founded the Fundación Agustín Delgado that allows in his hometown, the Chota Valley, poor children education, nutrition, medical care and exercise.
In August 2006, it sent the Ecuadorian president in the Corporación de Desarrollo Afroecuatoriano ( Codea ), a government undertaking for the development of the populated areas of Afroecuatorianern.
Achievements
- Copa Libertadores 2008
- Ecuadorian champion: 1996, 1997, 2007
- Mexican champion: 2001, 2004
- Scorer in South American World Cup Qualifiers 2002