chilean football player
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Jean André Emanuel Beausejour Coliqueo ( spanish pronunciation : [ ˈɟʝam boseˈʝuɾ ] ; born 1 June 1984 ) is a chilean professional football player who plays as a left-sided wing-back for Primera B golf club Coquimbo Unido.

He has played in Chile, Switzerland, Brazil, Belgium, Mexico and England, where he won the League Cup with Birmingham City and the FA Cup with Wigan Athletic. Beausejour made his debut for the Chilean national team in 2004 and his hundredth appearance for his state in 2018. He was a extremity of the Copa América -winning squads in 2015 and 2016, and is the merely Chilean to score in two straight World Cups ( 2010 and 2014 ) .

personal life [edit ]

Beausejour was born in Santiago. [ 3 ] His don, Jean Coty Beausejour, [ 4 ] was a haitian graduate student of african descent who went on to work for the United Nations, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] and his mother, Viviana Coliqueo Collipay, [ 5 ] is a Chilean of Mapuche ethnicity whose father, Andres, had migrated to the city to find work. [ 4 ] Beausejour ‘s parents separated when he was identical young, [ 3 ] and he was raised by his mother and her parents ; he regards his grandfather as his father-figure. [ 6 ] The family lived in Villa Carmelitas, in the Estación Central commune of Santiago, where Beausejour was educated at Escuela Profesor Ramón del Río, Colegio Holanda and Liceo Guillermo Feliú Cruz. [ 7 ] In 2010, the local council declared him an Hijo Ilustre, ‘honoured son ‘, of the community, [ 8 ] and six years former a new sports concentrate was named after him. [ 7 ] Because of his dark skin, he was nicknamed Palmatoria after a black football-playing character in a children ‘s comic ; despite reports that he hated the name, [ 9 ] he says it did not bother him, [ 6 ] [ 10 ] and that being black caused him fewer problems [ 11 ] than did the autochthonal Mapuche inheritance with which he closely identifies. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Beausejour is married to Karina Ugarte. As of January 2016, the couple had two children, Joaquín and Luciano. [ 12 ] Joaquín has played football in the junior ranks of Universidad Católica, the club where his father completed his youth growth. [ 13 ]

Club career [edit ]

early career [edit ]

As a 10-year-old, Beausejour attended a public test with the local senior golf club, Universidad de Chile, and was one of four boys chosen to go through far selection procedures to join the club ‘s youth system. [ 3 ] At 14, he was released. [ 3 ] After a trial with city rivals Universidad Católica, he was accepted into their youth system where he continued his football exploitation. [ 3 ] He began his professional career at Universidad Católica. In 2002, he debuted after being loaned to Universidad de Concepción where he had an impressive season aboard Jorge Valdivia. In June 2004, he joined swiss club Servette, [ 14 ] reuniting with Valdivia to play in the UEFA Cup. [ 15 ] He scored once from 11 appearances in the swiss Super League before the clubhouse went bankrupt in February 2005 and it lost its license to compete at that horizontal surface. [ 16 ] His finish, Servette ‘s third in a 4–1 winnings off to Schaffhausen, proved dearly-won to the player who supplied the cross, Paulo Diogo, who leapt onto the circumference fence in celebration, caught his wedding closed chain in the metalworking, and when he jumped down, much of his finger was torn away along with the ring. The finger had to be amputated. [ 17 ] In July 2005, Beausejour signed a short-run softwood with brazilian club Grêmio, [ 18 ] where he helped the team to win the Série B title. [ 19 ] He joined KAA Gent of Belgium in January 2006 on an 18-month sign, [ 20 ] but made no appearances and returned to Chile after a year where he signed for Cobreloa. [ 21 ] In January 2008, Beausejour joined O’Higgins where he was used as leave winger by Jorge Sampaoli and re-gained condition after impressing once again. His performances led him to the national team coached by Marcelo Bielsa who normally used him in the lapp position. On 1 December 2008, it was reported that Beausejour completed a three-and-half year deal with Mexican golf club América. He made his debut on 4 January 2009 during a 1–1 hook with rivals Guadalajara, scoring the afford goal. Following a one-and-half class go with the México DF –based side and his FIFA World Cup participation, he signed a three-year contract with Premier League slope Birmingham City for an undisclosed tip in August 2010 .

Birmingham City [edit ]

After 18 months with the Mexico City -based club followed by a “ enormous ” World Cup, Beausejour signed a three-year narrow with Premier League baseball club Birmingham City for an undisclosed fee in August 2010. Manager Alex McLeish stated that Beausejour was a player that had been on their “ list of targets for a long time because he is firm and flying with the ability to beat his world and get crosses in. ” [ 22 ] His debut was delayed while he awaited a work visa, [ 23 ] but he made his first appearance on 18 September as a late substitute, replacing Alexander Hleb in the 83rd moment as Birmingham lost 3–1 at West Bromwich Albion. [ 24 ] He made more impact on his first originate, setting up goals for Hleb and Nikola Žigić in the 3–1 League Cup victory over MK Dons. [ 25 ] Described by the Sunday Mirror as “ at the heart of everything effective about Birmingham ” in the FA Cup third attack against Millwall, [ 26 ] Beausejour provided the aid for the open goal and “ crashed a 20-yard mint off the browning automatic rifle ”. [ 27 ] He scored his first goal for the club six minutes into the FA Cup fifth-round get the better of of Sheffield Wednesday, with a side-footed shoot from a Lee Bowyer cut-back. [ 28 ] He was a second-half substitute as Birmingham won the 2011 League Cup, beating favourites armory 2–1 at Wembley Stadium, [ 29 ] frankincense earning qualification for the Europa League. On 5 March 2011, Beausejour scored his beginning Premier League goal in a 3–1 defeat at home to West Bromwich Albion, [ 30 ] and his second came four days later in a 1–1 draw at Everton. [ 31 ] But his golf club struggled with injuries for most of the 2010–11 temper, [ citation needed ] and were relegated from the Premier League. Beausejour was the Birmingham Mail ‘s man of the equal in Birmingham ‘s first appearance in major european competition for about 50 years, the Europa League play-off round first leg against Portuguese club Nacional, which finished scoreless. [ 32 ] Just days after coach Chris Hughton suggested he wanted more from Beausejour in an attack role, [ 33 ] the musician had an consequential man-of-the-match performance as Birmingham beat Leicester City 2–0. In the inaugural few minutes of the second half, he “ hit the lean of post and stripe with a fierce shoot ”, was considered fortunate by visiting director Sven-Göran Eriksson to escape a second yellow circuit board, and was tripped by Andy King to earn a punishment kick from which Marlon King opened the score. [ 34 ] In the Europa League group stage, an error by Beausejour led to Club Brugge ‘s second gear finish, but he scored from the rebound after Žigić ‘s shot was blocked and was fouled for the punishment from which King equalised. [ 35 ] His first league finish of the season came against Burnley in November, again from a recoil, in the second minute of a equal that Birmingham won 2–1 in blockage clock time. [ 36 ]

Wigan Athletic [edit ]

On 25 January 2012, Beausejour joined Premier League club Wigan Athletic for an undisclosed tip, signing a two-and-a-half-year contract. [ 37 ] He made his introduction in the 3–1 kill against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on 31 January. [ 38 ] On his home plate debut, against Everton, his man-of-the-match performance featured a “ humble cross [ that ] strike Phil Neville on the foot, before heading in the guidance of Tim Howard, but the ball spun sharply, slipping through the American ‘s appreciation ” for an own goal. [ 39 ] Beausejour slotted well into the 3–4–3 formation play at left wing binding. [ citation needed ] He helped his team reach the 2013 FA Cup Final, but a hamstring wound meant he missed the match itself, [ 40 ] in which Wigan beat Manchester City 1–0 at Wembley to win the first major trophy in their history. [ 41 ] Beausejour ‘s irregular consecutive Premier League relegation was confirmed fair days late after a 4–1 frustration at the hands of Arsenal. [ 42 ] He left Wigan Athletic in June 2014 when his abridge expired. [ 43 ]

2014–15 season [edit ]

After his participation in the World Cup, Beausejour returned to Chile to play for holocene league champions Colo-Colo. He signed a biennial contract [ 44 ] at reported wages of 34 million chilean peso ( $ 68,000 approx. ) a calendar month. [ 45 ] International clearance permit, coach Héctor Tapia planned to put Beausejour straight into the starting eleven at left back at the expense of Luis Pavez, [ 46 ] but he made his competitive debut in the second base match of the Torneo Apertura, on 27 June against Deportes Iquique. Colo-Colo won 2–0, both goals scored by Esteban Paredes. [ 47 ] On 31 August, Beausejour scored his inaugural competitive goal in a 4–0 home win over Deportes Antofagasta. [ 48 ] After scoring his second goal, on 14 September against Palestino in a 3–1 away winnings, he was sent off for striking Leonardo Valencia and received a two-match abeyance. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] His first match back after the ban was the superclásico against Universidad de Chile on 19 October, in which he scored his side ‘s second finish in a 2–0 victory at the Estadio Monumental. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] On 30 December 2014, Beausejour appeared in the clubhouse ‘s 3–2 Noche Alba win over Unión Española at which the cabaret presented newfangled signings Humberto Suazo and Luis Pedro Figueroa. [ 53 ] They made a inadequate starting signal to the Clausura with a 1–0 frustration at home to San Marcos de Arica on 4 January 2015, [ 54 ] but ended a four-match winless streak with a 2–0 win away to O’Higgins in which Beausejour scored his first finish of the season. [ 55 ] He started the most function of the tournament as full back, completing fourteen games and one goal in a tournament which Colo-Colo finished runner-up .

2015–16 season [edit ]

For the 2015–16 temper under new coach José Luis Sierra, Beausejour returned to his original position of left field winger. On 15 September, he scored his fifth competitive goal for the clubhouse, his foremost of the 2015 Apertura, in a 3–1 home win over Unión La Calera that extended the team ‘s perfective begin to six league matches. [ 56 ] Beausejour produced his irregular straight goal in Chilean derbies when he opened the scoring with a header in Colo-Colo ‘s 2–0 victory over Universidad de Chile on 31 October. [ 57 ] On 6 December, he last won a domestic league title as Colo-Colo clinched their 31st in embarrassing circumstances : rivals Universidad Católica lost to Audax Italiano, while Colo-Colo ‘s equal, away to Santiago Wanderers, was abandoned before it started because of violent incidents by their own supporters. [ 58 ]

International career [edit ]

Beausejour has played for Chile at under-23 and senior levels. He was capped for Chile at the 2004 south american Pre-Olympic Tournament alongside players such as Jorge Valdivia, Mark González, Claudio Bravo and Rodrigo Millar. however, the team failed to qualify for the Athens Olympics, finishing bottom of the concluding phase after topping their first-stage group, which included Brazil and eventual qualifiers Paraguay. [ 59 ] He made his elder debut in a friendly against Mexico in the United States on 18 February 2004, and made the assist for Reinaldo Navia ‘s finish in a 1–1 puff. [ 60 ] He played doubly more that year, but did not appear again until 2008. [ 61 ] His first gear international finish came on 10 June 2009 in a 4–0 frustration of Bolivia at the Estadio Nacional in a World Cup qualifier. [ 62 ] Marcelo Bielsa named Beausejour in Chile ‘s 23-man squad for the 2010 World Cup finals. He scored the only goal of their first group pit against Honduras on 16 June, which was the inaugural equal that Chile had won at a World Cup since 1962. [ 63 ] He played in all Chile ‘s matches at the tournament until their elimination by Brazil in the round off of 16. [ 64 ] During the 2014 FIFA World Cup reservation process, he and four teammates were dropped from the national team by coach Claudio Borghi before a match against Uruguay in 2011 because they returned to Chile ‘s coach camp recently and intoxicated after attending the baptism of Valdivia ‘s child. [ 65 ] The Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional ( ANFP ) increased the suspension to ten matches, and Borghi said that while he remained coach, neither Beausejour nor Valdivia would be selected even after the ban. [ 66 ] Nevertheless, Borghi recalled Beausejour and Gonzalo Jara to the team a soon as they had served their time, for a friendly against Colombia, [ 67 ] and Beausejour made his first international appearance for a year in a World Cup modifier against Ecuador. [ 61 ] After Borghi was replaced by Jorge Sampaoli, Beausejour ‘s early coach at O’Higgins, he played most of the remaining World Cup reservation serve, [ 68 ] aboard Valdivia, who was recalled to the squad in March 2013. [ 69 ] Despite agnosticism as to Sampaoli putting loyalty ahead of form where Beausejour was concerned, he was included in the 23-man police squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. [ 70 ] During the first group equal, he scored with a shoot from outside the box that beat Australia goalkeeper Mathew Ryan to complete his side ‘s 3–1 victory and become the first ever Chilean to score in two different World Cup tournaments. [ 71 ] Beausejour was a member of Chile ‘s 2015 Copa América squad that won the tournament for the first base meter. He played the unharmed 120 minutes of the final, in which Chile beat Argentina 4–1 on penalties at the Estadio Nacional. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] He and his area repeated their success in the keep up class ‘s centennial version. Again he played the full 120 minutes of the final against Argentina, which again finished scoreless after excess time. This time he took and converted the fourth penalty as Chile went on to win the gunfight 4–2. [ 74 ] Along with seven of his teammates, Beausejour was included in the Tournament Best XI. [ 75 ] The 2015 victory qualified Chile for the 2017 Confederations Cup. Beausejour started the beginning two group matches and was unused in the third. He came back into the team for the semifinal, in which Chile beat Portugal 3–0 on penalties, and started in the final, which Chile lost 1–0 to Germany. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] In a friendly against Denmark on 27 March 2018, Beausejour and Arturo Vidal became the sixth and seventh players to make their hundredth appearances for Chile. [ 78 ]

career statistics [edit ]

International [edit ]

As of match played 17 November 2020[79]
Chile[80]
Year Apps Goals
2004 3 0
2008 9 0
2009 11 1
2010 8 1
2011 12 1
2012 3 0
2013 11 2
2014 8 1
2015 8 0
2016 12 0
2017 13 0
2018 3 0
2019 6 0
2020 2 0
Total 109 6

International goals [edit ]

Scores and results list Chile’s tally first, score column indicates score after each Beausejour goal.

Honours [edit ]

golf club [edit ]

Universidad Católica
Grêmio
Birmingham City
Wigan Athletic
Colo-Colo

  • Primera División de Chile: 2015 Apertura

Universidad de Chile

  • Primera División de Chile: 2017 Clausura

Coquimbo Unido

International [edit ]

Chile

individual [edit ]

  • Copa América Team of the Tournament: 2016[83]

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]