Cristopher Benjamín Toselli Ríos (, born 15 June 1988) is a

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who plays as a

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for

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. Toselli is best known for beating Cláudio Taffarel's clean sheet record of 484 minutes during 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup of

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, surpassing him by eight minutes and completing 492 minutes in total, helping Chilean youth squad to a third-place finish. In 2009, he was a member of Ivo Basay's 23-man squad who won the Toulon Tournament, a tournament that Cristopher lost in 2008 against

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under Marcelo Bielsa as coach.

Club career

Universidad Católica

Early career

Born in

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, Toselli joined Universidad Católica youth ranks in 2001, being promoted to first-team by the coach

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in 2006 for the Torneo Apertura, due to the departure of second-choice keeper

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. The following year, after a notable performance in the

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, he made his club debut on 25 November, during a 3–0 home win to Coquimbo Unido played at San Carlos. The next season, he was challenging the goal with record-man

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, becoming the first-choice keeper, after their mistakes and its departure to Olimpia. When he played the

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final against

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, that Chile won 1–0 to ''Les Blues'', Toselli suffered a strong injury of six months, that caused indignation Católica's coach Marco Antonio Figueroa for provide him to a tournament and take risk, because he was Figueroa's starter keeper. During his recovery time, second-choice keeper Paulo Garcés broke into first team, therefore relegated him to the bench.

2010 season

On 5 December 2010, Toselli played in the

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final match against Everton, where his club was consecrated champion after defeat 5–0 to

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based–team at home.

2011 season

On 11 May 2011, he recovered his titularity under orders of Juan Antonio Pizzi after a terrible mistake of Garcés in a

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quarterfinals match against

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, where inexplicably dropped the ball, which Alejandro Martinuccio take the opportunity for score the definitive 2–0 in the 90th minute. After losing against

the playoffs finals of the Torneo Apertura, was installed again as starter keeper with the new coach Mario Lepe, after the departures of Pizzi and Garcés. On 16 November, Toselli won the Copa Chile final to

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, being that his second title at Católica, that qualified his team 2012 Copa Sudamericana, which ''Los Cruzados'' were eliminated on semifinals against Brazilian side

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after two draws, where Toselli had very well performances.

International career

During his early career, Toselli represented Chile U17 at the

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, playing in four matches. Later, Toselli was called up to the Chile U20 national team for the 2007 South American Youth Championship in

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. He started in the national team as second goalkeeper until the third game of tournament, in where he relegates to the

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player

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to his place. Finally, Chile finished in the fourth place of the final stage of the tournament with six points alongside

, however the guaranies had a lower goal difference of Chile, giving the pass to Chile to the

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celebrated in

. In the U-20 World Cup, Toselli was Chile's outstanding goalkeeper with a notable performance by him and his team in the cup, finishing in the third place of the tournament, after beating 1–0

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. However, he broke Brazilian goalkeeper Cláudio Taffarel's record of 484 minutes without conceding goals in a Youth World Cup, achieving 492 minutes in total, eight more than the Brazilian. After of his U-20 World Cup performances, he was nominated to the Toulon Tournament in

three years consecutively (2008–2010). In 2008 (U23 squad), Toselli was nominated by the coach Marcelo Bielsa and once was Chile's outstanding goalkeeper, being runner-up of the tournament with Chile, after of be defeated 1–0 by

. In 2009 (U21 squad), he was once again nominated to play the Toulon Tournament, which Chile would win, suffering a six-month injury in the final against the

, which Chile won 1–0 with a goal from

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at 86th minute. In 2010 (U22 squad), Chile reached the fourth place. In addition, Toselli played in a

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against Mexico U22 in San Luis Potosí,

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on September 3, 2011. The squad only included under-25 players and was a win by 1–3. Toselli was called up by Bielsa to play his first senior international game for his country against

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, match that ended in a 2–1 victory of Chile. During the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification process, he was nominated by Bielsa as third goalkeeper with frequency. For the

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, it was supposed that Toselli would be the third goalkeeper of Chile, but finally Luis Marín was who achieved this place. Toselli would be called up by Bielsa's successors Claudio Borghi and

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during the 2014 World Cup qualifiers and was eventually included in the 23-man squad that played the

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Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Club

;Universidad Católica *

(5):

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, 2016–C, 2016–A,

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* Copa Chile (1): 2011 * Supercopa de Chile (2): 2016,

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(1): Torneo de Verano Fox Sports 2019

International

;Chile U20 *

: Third Place

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;Chile U21 * Toulon Tournament (1):

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;Chile *

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(1):

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(1): 2016 * Confederations Cup: Runner-up

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(1):

Individual

* Best goalkeeper of Toulon Tournament (1):

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(1):

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Toselli, Cristopher 1988 births Living people Chilean men's footballers Chilean expatriate men's footballers Sportspeople from Antofagasta Chilean people of Italian descent Men's association football goalkeepers Chile men's under-20 international footballers Chile men's youth international footballers Chile men's international footballers 2014 FIFA World Cup players Copa América Centenario players 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup players Copa América-winning players Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers Atlas F.C. footballers Everton de Viña del Mar footballers Club Deportivo Palestino footballers Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero footballers Chilean Primera División players Liga MX players Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina