Luis Checa

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Luis Checa
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Personal information
Full name Luis Armando Checa Villamar
Date of birth (1983-12-21) December 21, 1983 (age 39)
Place of birth Ecuador
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Center Back
Team information
Current team
 Clan Juvenil
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2001–2005 El Nacional 104 (4)
2006 Deportivo Quito 44 (3)
2007 → El Nacional (loan) 3 (0)
2007 → Aucas (loan) 18 (0)
2008–2013 Deportivo Quito 223 (14)
2014–2017 Barcelona 64 (4)
2017–2018 Clan Juvenil 0 (0)
International career‡
2008–2013 Ecuador 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 August 2014
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 December 2010

Luis Armando Checa Villamar (born December 21, 1983) is an Ecuadorian retired footballer who last time played with CD Clan Juvenil.

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Club career

Luis started out at Deportivo Quito where he had a first good season. He had 27 appearances to start out with and attracted last season's champions El Nacional.

In 2007, Luis was awarded a move to Nacional by his impressive defending performances. However, he only had two appearances and former Nacional coach, Ever Hugo Almeida, was not interested in keeping him with the Quito giants. He finished the year playing on loan for Aucas. In 2008, he went back to Deportivo Quito and is still there currently. In December 2008, he helped Deportivo Quito win their third title in history.

Copa Sudamericana 2008

Luis helped Dep. Quito qualify for the Copa Sudamericana 2008. He made four appearances and was an important player for Sevilla's team. His team went on to eliminate Universitario de Deportes of Peru in a 2-1 aggregate win. Deportivo Quito then had to play Mexico's San Luis. Unfortunately, Deportivo Quito was eliminated from the tournament in a 5-4 aggregate loss. He scored one of the goals for Deportivo Quito. [1]

International career

Luis has been called up to a friendly against Mexico on November 12, 2008. He is expected to be in the starting line-up for Ecuador. [2] He was recently called up to play a quadrangular friendly tournament in Oman. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Commentary: Deportivo Quito v San Luis - Copa Sudamericana - ESPN Soccernet". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
  2. ↑ "International Friendly Preview: México vs. Ecuador". Goal.com. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  3. ↑ "Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol, el portal de fútbol ecuatoriano". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2008-12-24.


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