Jean Andre Emanuel Beausejour Coliqueo is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a left-sided wing-back.
25 Facts About Jean Beausejour
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Jean Beausejour 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.
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Jean Beausejour was a member of the Copa America-winning squads in 2015 and 2016, and is the only Chilean to score in two consecutive World Cups.
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Jean Beausejour's father, Jean Coty Beausejour, was a Haitian graduate student of African descent who went on to work for the United Nations, and his mother, Viviana Coliqueo Collipay, is a Chilean of Mapuche ethnicity whose father, Andres, had migrated to the city to find work.
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Jean Beausejour's parents separated when he was very young, and he was raised by his mother and her parents; he regards his grandfather as his father-figure.
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The family lived in Villa Carmelitas, in the Estacion Central commune of Santiago, where Jean Beausejour was educated at Escuela Profesor Ramon del Rio, Colegio Holanda and Liceo Guillermo Feliu Cruz.
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Jean Beausejour scored once from 11 appearances in the Swiss Super League before the club went bankrupt in February 2005 and it lost its licence to compete at that level.
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In July 2005, Jean Beausejour signed a short-term deal with Brazilian club Gremio, where he helped the team to win the Serie B title.
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Jean Beausejour joined KAA Gent of Belgium in January 2006 on an 18-month contract, but made no appearances and returned to Chile after a year where he signed for Cobreloa.
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In January 2008, Jean Beausejour joined O'Higgins where he was used as left winger by Jorge Sampaoli and re-gained status after impressing .
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Jean Beausejour's performances led him to the Chile national team coached by Marcelo Bielsa who usually used him in the same position.
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On 1 December 2008, it was reported that Jean Beausejour completed a three-and-half year deal with Mexican club America.
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Jean Beausejour scored his first goal for the club six minutes into the FA Cup fifth-round defeat of Sheffield Wednesday, with a side-footed shot from a Lee Bowyer cut-back.
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Jean Beausejour was the Birmingham Mail man of the match in Birmingham's first appearance in major European competition for nearly 50 years, the Europa League play-off round first leg against Portuguese club Nacional, which finished goalless.
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On 25 January 2012, Jean Beausejour joined Premier League club Wigan Athletic for an undisclosed fee, signing a two-and-a-half-year contract.
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Jean Beausejour left Wigan Athletic in June 2014 when his contract expired.
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Jean Beausejour started the most part of the tournament as full back, completing fourteen games and one goal in a tournament which Colo-Colo finished runner-up.
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Jean Beausejour has played for Chile at under-23 and senior levels.
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Jean Beausejour was capped for Chile at the 2004 South American Pre-Olympic Tournament alongside players such as Jorge Valdivia, Mark Gonzalez, Claudio Bravo and Rodrigo Millar.
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Jean Beausejour played twice more that year, but did not appear again until 2008.
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Jean Beausejour scored the only goal of their first group match against Honduras on 16 June, which was the first match that Chile had won at a World Cup since 1962.
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Jean Beausejour played in all Chile's matches at the tournament until their elimination by Brazil in the round of 16.
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Jean Beausejour was a member of Chile's 2015 Copa America squad that won the tournament for the first time.
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Jean Beausejour started the first two group matches and was unused in the third.
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Jean Beausejour joined ADN Radio as a panelist of the program Los Tenores de ADN.