Vurnon San Benito Anita (born 4 April 1989) is a Curaçaoan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or full-back for Eerste Divisie club Volendam.

[3][4] In his youth years on Curaçao, Anita started to play football at local team CVV Willemstad.

Because of the poor team performances during the first half of the season, Martin Jol left Ajax in December 2010 and was replaced by Frank de Boer.

Anita made his debut on 18 August 2012, replacing Yohan Cabaye, as the Magpies defeated Tottenham Hotspur 2–1 on the opening day of the Premier League season.

He scored his first goal for Newcastle in a Europa League fixture against Club Brugge at the Jan Breydel Stadium on 8 November.

[9] After Siem de Jong signed for Newcastle on 1 July 2014,[10] the player revealed that both Anita and Tim Krul were very influential in persuading him to leave Ajax and join Tyneside.

[14][15] On 6 August 2017, Anita made his Leeds United debut at left back coming on as a first half substitute for the injured Gaetano Berardi in the 3–2 victory against Bolton Wanderers.

[17] Due to injuries to regular fullbacks including Luke Ayling, Gaetano Berardi and Laurens De Bock during the season, Anita was used as right-back or left-back during the 2017–18 season,[18] with Talksport's Billy Hawkins opining that Anita and De Bock "made appearances on the left of defence to little success".

[24] After returning to Leeds after the end of his loan spell, Anita held talks with Super League Greece side Panathinaikos over a move.

[25] Anita joined Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia in late February 2020, but only made two league and one Cup appearances for the team, as the championship was suspended in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[33] He made his first appearance in the starting eleven in a 1–1 friendly draw with Ukraine on 12 August 2010, being substituted at half-time by PSV Eindhoven defender Erik Pieters.

[35] However, on 27 May 2010, Netherlands manager Bert van Marwijk announced that the player would not be part of the final squad of 23 participating in the competition.

[36] Anita, who had not appeared for the Netherlands in a competitive senior international football match, formally filed a one-time switch in 2021 to play for the Curaçao national team.