Felipe Seymour

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Felipe Seymour
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Personal information
Full name Felipe Ignacio Seymour Dobud
Date of birth (1987-07-23) 23 July 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth Pirque, Santiago, Chile
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Youth career
2005–2007 Universidad de Chile
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006–2011 Universidad de Chile 96 (2)
2011–2014 Genoa 27 (0)
2012 → Catania (loan) 13 (1)
2013 → ChievoVerona (loan) 7 (0)
2013–2014 → Spezia (loan) 29 (1)
2015 Cruzeiro 0 (0)
2015 → Vasco da Gama (loan) 1 (0)
2016–2017 Unión Española 24 (0)
2017–2018 Universidad de Chile 28 (2)
2019 Unión Española 14 (0)
2020–2021 Unión La Calera 24 (0)
2021 O'Higgins 25 (0)
2022 Universidad de Chile 22 (0)
Total310(6)
International career‡
2008 Chile U23 4 (0)
2010–2012 Chile 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 April 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 October 2012

Felipe Ignacio Seymour Dobud (born 23 July 1987) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

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Club career

Early career

Born in Pirque, Santiago, Chile, Seymour began his football career on a Chilean reality television show called Adidas Selection Team. On the show, players from different professional clubs' youth squads were joined together to form a team to play against different schools in the Chilean Metropolitan area. The team beat all the schools it played except the last, which was San Ignacio. San Ignacio beat "Team Adidas" with five goals scored by Felipe Seymour. After that Seymour was signed by the Universidad de Chile's youth squad. [1]

In 2005, after Adidas Reality, Seymour began his career on the youth squad of Universidad de Chile at age 17.

Universidad de Chile

Seymour with Universidad de Chile. Union La Calera - Universidad de Chile, 2018-04-22 - Felipe Seymour - 01.jpg
Seymour with Universidad de Chile.

His Universidad de Chile professional debut was in late 2006 against Palestino.

Under the management of Arturo Salah, Seymour was on the bench for most games, but on 21 October, he came off the bench in the Chilean football derby (called "Superclásico") against Colo-Colo. In 2008, his status as a substitute did not change. In Apertura 2008 he played in only five matches where he came off the bench. In Copa Chile 2008–09, he played in the starting lineup against the Santiago Wanderers in a 1–0 away loss in Estadio Regional Chiledeportes.

After the resignation of Arturo Salah and the arrival of Sergio Markarián, Seymour had more continuity in the starting lineup, and a good season for both him and the team resulted in a victory in Torneo Apertura 2009. Then with the arrival of Jose Basualdo, Seymour was frequently in the starting lineup. In Clásico Universitario he scored a goal against Universidad Católica in a 3–2 home loss.

In 2010 with the arrival of the Uruguayan coach Gerardo Pelusso, he became a key player for the club.

In Copa Libertadores 2010, he scored two long-distance goals. One took place against Flamengo in Estadio Monumental David Arellano in a 2–1 home victory in front of 30,000 spectators. The other was in a game against Alianza Lima in the last minute in the round of 16 for Copa Libertadores, when the team was losing on the global result. He was in matches on other occasions, against Huachipato on 9 February for the fourth week in Estadio Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso in a 3–0 home victory, and Cobresal on 5 September for the twenty-second week in Estadio El Cobre in a 2–1 away victory.

Genoa

In May 2011, the Italian diary Gazzetta dello sport officially confirmed the transfer of the Chilean midfielder to Serie A outfit, Genoa C.F.C. [2] He has been compared with David Pizarro of Roma by the Italian press. [3] Seymour made his Genoa debut on September 18, 2011 against S.S. Lazio, in a match won by Genoa by a score of 2–1. He played the whole 90 minutes. [4] Seymour made 12 league appearances for Genoa in his first 5 months at the club, before being loaned to Calcio Catania for the remainder of the 2011-12 Serie A season.

On 31 January 2012 Seymour moved to Calcio Catania on a season long loan deal that expired on 30 June 2012, later went to Spezia and in 2014 signed a contract with the current Brazilian champion Cruzeiro.

Cruzeiro

After six months without a contract, the player received a very good proposal to return to South America, specifically play in Brazil. Signed with Cruzeiro Esporte Clube that comes from winning two consecutive national championships.

Return to Universidad de Chile

After his stint with O'Higgins, Seymour returned to Universidad de Chile by third time for the 2022 season. [5] In 20 June 2023, he announced his retirement after seventeen years of career. [6]

International career

Felipe Seymour has been selected to play for Chile U23 in a tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [7] against teams from Oceania. It is rumored[ by whom? ] that in the game against Ecuador, Felipe Seymour was nominated but not selected, though Marcelo Bielsa considered him as an alternate.

Personal life

He is of Croatian descent. [8]

He is nicknamed Walala due to his resemblance to a character from the Chilean animated series Pulentos  [ es ]. [9]

Honours

Club

Universidad de Chile

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References

  1. ↑ Fernández, Denís (13 August 2015). "El reality que Eduardo Vargas no ganó" (in Spanish). La Tercera . Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  2. ↑ Preso Seymour ora va su Parolo
  3. ↑ Genoa espera a Seymour como el 'heredero de Pizarro'
  4. ↑ "Genoa Cricket and Football Club – Official Website – Il Club più antico d'Italia".
  5. ↑ Madariaga, Carlos (31 December 2021). "Está de vuelta: Felipe Seymour tendrá su tercera etapa en Universidad de Chile". ADN (in Spanish). ADN Radio Chile . Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  6. ↑ "Felipe Seymour puso punto final a su carrera: Me retiro del fútbol, pero jamás de la U". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 20 June 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  7. ↑ "Cortés, Gazale y Cereceda liderarán a Chile en torneo sub 23 de Malasia" (in Spanish). ADN. 8 May 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "Los croatas del deporte chileno". Diario AS (in Spanish). AS Chile. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  9. ↑ "Diccionario de Universidad de Chile: Los nombres y datos que todo chuncho debe saber (Parte 3)". ADN (in Spanish). ADN Radio Chile. 24 May 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
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