Benjamín Vidal

Benjamín Vidal (Loyola)
	Benjamín Vidal
Personal information
Full name	Benjamín Fernando Vidal Allende
Date of birth	18 March 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth	Doñihue, Chile
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Team information
Current team	C.D. Antofagasta
Number	--
Youth career
	Cultural Doñihue
	O'Higgins
Senior career*
Years	Team
2010–2014	O'Higgins
2011	→ Deportes Puerto Montt (loan)
2014–2016	Universidad de Chile
2016–2017	Palestino
2017–2020	Universidad Católica
2018	→ Palestino (loan)
2019–2020	→ Coquimbo Unido (loan)
2021–2022	Coquimbo Unido
2022	Fernández Vial
2023–	C.D. Antofagasta
International career
2009	Chile U20
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 May 2020

Benjamín Fernando Vidal Allende (born 18 March 1991) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays for C.D. Antofagasta as a centre back.

Career

Youth career

Fuentes started his career at

Primera División de Chile club O'Higgins

. He progressed from the under categories club all the way to the senior team.

O'Higgins

Vidal debuted with O'Higgins in the match against Everton on 14 November 2010. The match finished 0:0.^[1]

In 2012, Vidal was runner-up with

Apertura 2013-14 with O'Higgins

. In the tournament, he played in 10 of 18 matches.

In 2014, he won the Supercopa de Chile against Deportes Iquique, playing the 90 minutes of the match.^[2]

He participated with the club in the 2014 Copa Libertadores where they faced Deportivo Cali, Cerro Porteño and Lanús, being third and being eliminated in the group stage. ^[3]

Universidad de Chile

For the

2014–15 season, Vidal is signed for Universidad de Chile for a US$

1.5M fee.

In the U dispute the Copa Libertadores 2015 and consecrated champion of the Apertura 2014, the Supercopa of Chile 2015 and the Glass Chile 2015, although without having more protagonism in the stellar equipment. As a result, in June 2016, his transfer to Palestine is confirmed.

Palestino

In the team led by Nicolás Cordova takes up regularity and becomes the owner of the team, fulfilling an outstanding participation in the Copa Sudamericana 2016, where his team would be eliminated in the quarterfinals at the hands of San Lorenzo de Almagro, after having left in the Way to Flamengo from Brazil.