Ecuadorian footballer (born 1971)
Cléber Manuel Chalá Herrón (born June 29, 1971 in Imbabura) is a retired Ecuadorian football midfielder who played 86 games for the Ecuador national team between 1992 and 2004.[1]
At club level he has played mostly for Nacional Quito where he has made over 450 appearances and participated in 4 Ecuadorian league championship winning campaigns (1992, 1996, 2005A & 2006).
He has also played club football for Deportivo Quito and Universidad San Martín de Porres in Peru. He also had a spell in England with Southampton but never played in the first team.[2][3] He was signed along with fellow countryman Agustín Delgado, but neither made an impact in English football.
International career
[edit]Chalá played for Ecuador at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and in the 1993 Copa América,[4] 1997 Copa América[5] and 2001 Copa América.[6]
He was father-in-law to fellow Ecuadorian footballer Christian Benítez, who married Chalá's daughter Lizeth in 2007.[7]
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