Cristian Calderón

Cristian Yonathan Calderón Del Real (born 24 May 1997) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a left-back and winger for Liga MX club Guadalajara and the Mexico national team.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Calderón and the second or maternal family name is Del Real.
Cristian Calderón
Personal information
Full name Cristian Yonathan Calderón Del Real[1]
Date of birth (1997-05-24) 24 May 1997[1]
Place of birth Tepic, Nayarit, México
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position(s) Left-back / Winger
Club information
Current team
 Guadalajara
Number 26
Youth career
2012–2013 Nayarit
2013–2014 De los Altos
2014–2016 Atlas
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2018 Atlas 21 (0)
2019 Necaxa 36 (10)
2019– Guadalajara 24 (4)
2020 → Tapatío (loan) 1 (0)
National team‡
2019– Mexico U23 3 (0)
2019– Mexico 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 January 2021
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16 January 2020

Club career

Calderón participated in the youth teams of Coras de Nayarit FC and C.D. De los Altos before joining Altas FC's youth team.[2] He made his professional debut with Altas on 21 October 2015 against Club Tijuana in a Copa MX quarter-finals match, ultimately winning 5–4 in a penalty shoot-out after a 2–2 tie. He made his Liga MX debut on 7 May 2016 against Tijuana, finishing in a scoreless draw.[3] He became a starter for the first team in the 2018 Apertura.[3]

He was signed by Club Necaxa for the 2019 Clausura.[3] He made his debut for Necaxa on 5 March 2019, scoring his first goals as a brace against Club América, winning 3–1.[4] At the end of the 2019 Apertura, he was listed in the Best XI of the tournament.[5] According to a poll held by Mexican sports newspaper Récord, its readers voted Calderón as the best player of the tournament.[6]

On 11 December 2019, it was announced that C.D. Guadalajara signed Calderón.[7][8] On 18 January 2020, he made his league debut with the club coming on as a substitute against Pachuca in a 0–0 tie.[9] Three days later, he would score his first goal with the club, scoring a stoppage-time header in a 2–1 loss against Dorados de Sinaloa during the first round-of-16 leg of the Copa MX.[10] A week later in the second leg, he would score a bicycle kick in a 1–0 victory,[11] helping send Guadalajara to a penalty shoot-out that was eventually lost.[12]

On 15 August 2020, he scored the winning goal against Atlético San Luis in a 2–1 home victory, his first league goal with the club and giving newly appointed manager Victor Manuel Vucetich his first win with the club.[13] In November 2020, facing rivals Club América during the Guardianes championship quarter-finals, he scored three times, all long-range shots from outside of the box, in the span of two legs giving Guadalajara a 3–1 aggregate victory.[14][15]

International career

Mexico U-23

In May 2019, he was called up by Jaime Lozano to participate in that year's Toulon Tournament.[16] In the third-place match against the Republic of Ireland, he would score during the penalty shoot-out, helping Mexico win 4–3.[17]

Mexico national team

In September 2019, he received his first call-up for the senior team by Gerardo Martino and on 2 October 2019 in a friendly against Trinidad & Tobago, he made his debut. He started the game and was substituted at half-time.[18]

Career statistics

International
As of match played 19 November 2019[19]
Mexico national team
YearAppsGoals
201940
Total40

Honours

Individual

References
  1. "Cristian Yonathan Calderón Del Real". LigaMX.net.
  2. Rosas, Javier (3 December 2020). "'Chicote' Calderón, el jugador que nació retando a la disciplina". ESPN Deportes (in Spanish).
  3. Quiroga, Antonio (21 November 2019). "La evolución del 'Chicote' Calderón: un zorro convertido en chiva". TUDN (in Spanish).
  4. "América 1-3 Necaxa: goles, resumen y videos". Goal.com (in Spanish). 5 March 2019.
  5. "La Liga MX da a conocer el once ideal del Apertura 2019". Marca Claro México. 3 January 2020.
  6. "Chicote Calderón Arrasó En La Estrella Récord Del Apertura 2019". Récord (in Spanish). 3 January 2020.
  7. "Conoce a fondo a Cristian Calderón, cuarto refuerzo de Chivas". chivasdecorazon.com.mx (in Spanish). 11 December 2019.
  8. Bourgeois, Blaise (11 December 2019). "Chivas officially announce the signing Cristian 'Chicote' Calderón". OneFootball.com.
  9. Ceccato García, Eduardo (19 January 2020). "Aguantar a que toque tu turno: Calderón tras su debut". ChivasPasion.Bolavip.com (in Spanish).
  10. Hernández, Jesús (21 January 2020). "Dorados sorprende y vence a Chivas en la ida de octavos de final de la Copa MX". Milenio (in Spanish).
  11. "¡Chilena del Chicote! Golazo de Cristian Calderón con Chivas en Copa MX". MedioTiempo.com (in Spanish). 28 January 2020.
  12. "Chivas, eliminado de la Copa MX a manos de Dorados". ESPN Deportes (in Spanish). 28 January 2020.
  13. "Chivas consigue primera victoria en casa en el debut de Vucetich". ESPN Deportes (in Spanish). 15 August 2020.
  14. Marshall, Tom (30 November 2020). "Liga MX Guard1anes playoffs: Calderon, Chivas see off America to reach semis; is it Cruz Azul's year". ESPN.
  15. Serrano, Rodrigo (30 November 2020). "'Chicote' Calderón - "I thought fuck it, whatever happens, happens"". AS.
  16. "Convocatoria Final de la SNM Sub 22 Para el Torneo Maurice Revello" (in Spanish). Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación, A.C. 23 May 2019.
  17. "Con Jurado como figura en los penales, México se quedó con el Tercer Lugar en Toulon". MedioTiempo.com (in Spanish). 15 June 2019.
  18. "Mexico v Trinidad & Tobago game report". ESPN. 2 October 2019.
  19. Cristian Calderón at National-Football-Teams.com
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