Born in Cartagena, Becerra began playing football with Deportes Tolima's youth academy.

He joined the senior squad at age 17, helping the club gain promotion to the Colombian second division.

[2] On club level the striker had played for Al Jazira in the United Arab Emirates since 2003.

A national team player, Becerra won the 2001 Copa America and participated in the 2003 Confederations Cup, where he became noted for trying to save the life of the collapsed Marc-Vivien Foé.

Becerra was shot in a night club in his birth town Cartagena together with his friend Alexander Ríos, apparently after they had a fight with a group of men a couple of days earlier.