Benjamín Ignacio Galdames Millán (born 24 February 2001) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chilean Primera División club Unión Española.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Benjamín Ignacio Galdames Millán | ||
| Date of birth | (2001-02-24) 24 February 2001 (age 21) | ||
| Place of birth | Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Unión Española | ||
| Number | 29 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Unión Española | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018– | Unión Española | 19 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2021–2022 | Mexico U21 | 6 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 September 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 June 2022 | |||
In October 2020, Galdames received his first ever call up to the Mexico national under-20 team by Raúl Chabrand for training camp.
On 9 October 2021, Galdames made his Mexico under-21 debut in a friendly match against the Romania U21 side. He was called up by Raúl Chabrand to participate with the under-21 team at the 2022 Maurice Revello Tournament,[1] where Mexico finished the tournament in third place.[2]
In December 2021, Galdames was included in the Mexico national team call-up by Gerardo Martino for a friendly match against Chile set to take place on December 8.[3] He had also been called up for Chile by the coach Martín Lasarte, but he rejected that chance.[4]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Unión Española | 2018 | Chilean Primera División | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2019 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 2020 | 7 | 0 | – | – | – | 7 | 0 | |||||
| 2021 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 8 | 0 | ||||
| 2022 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | – | 7 | 0 | |||
| Total | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | ||
Galdames is the son of Chilean former international footballer Pablo Galdames.[6] He was born in Mexico City due to his father being a Cruz Azul player at the time. Due to the fact that he holds dual Mexican-Chilean nationality, he can play for the Chile national team as well as the Mexico national team.[7]
From his paternal line, he is the younger brother of the Chilean footballers Pablo Jr. and Thomas[6] and the half-brother of the also footballer Mathías.[8][9]
Unión Española – current squad | |
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