Francisco Valdés

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Francisco Valdés
Personnel
Surname Francisco Segundo Valdés Muñoz
birthday March 19, 1943
place of birth Santiago ,  Chile
date of death August 10, 2009
Place of death Santiago ,  Chile
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1961-1969 CSD Colo-Colo 220 (133)
1970 Unión Española 35 0(10)
1971 Deportes Antofagasta 30 0(10)
1972-1975 CSD Colo-Colo 111 0(42)
1976 Santiago Wanderers 26 0(11)
1977 CD Cobreloa 37 00(3)
1978 CSD Colo-Colo 23 00(4)
1979-1981 San Marcos de Arica 33 00(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1962-1975 Chile 52 00(9)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1990 San Luis de Quillota
1991 Coquimbo Unido
1992 Lota's brother-in-law
1993-1994 Deportes Puerto Montt
1996 Rangers de Talca
1997 CD Magallanes
1 Only league games are given.

Francisco Segundo Valdés Muñoz (born March 19, 1943 in Santiago de Chile , † August 10, 2009 ibid) was a Chilean football player and later coach. As an active player, especially with CSD Colo-Colo, he was very successful and also a two-time World Cup participant, later he also became a coach in Chile's first division.

Player career

Club career

Francisco Valdés, born in the Chilean capital Santiago in 1943 , began playing football at the local club CSD Colo-Colo , now the record champions of Chilean football. At Colo-Colo Valdés completed his first league game in 1961 and initially stayed with the club until 1969. During this time he made 220 league games with 133 goals scored in the jersey of Colo-Colo. Furthermore, in the season 1963 succeeded in winning the soccer championship of Chile, after in the Primera División after the end of all game days the first place was occupied with one point ahead of CF Universidad de Chile .

In 1969 Francisco Valdés left Colo-Colo first to join city rivals Unión Española . After a year there and another year at Deportes Antofagasta , the attacking midfielder finally returned to his home club, where he soon became captain. In his first year after returning to Colo-Colo Santiago, he was able to win the Chilean championship for the second time with the club. This time in the Primera División 1972, the first place in the table was reached with three points before Unión Española. This allowed you to start the 1973 Copa Libertadores . There coach Luis Álamos' team caused a big surprise when - after leaving Club Cerro Porteño from Paraguay and Botafogo Rio de Janeiro from Brazil behind in the second group stage - they made it into the final. In this final, the team around players like Carlos Caszely , Sergio Ahumada or Leonardo Véliz met the Argentinian representative Independiente Avellaneda , who was the serial winner of the Copa Libertadores at the time. Colo-Colo was also unsuccessful against Independiente, although it was only a play-off game that brought victory for the Argentines. It had been a draw on the return leg before Independiente won 2-1 after extra time in the Montevideo playoff.

Francisco Valdés stayed with Colo-Colo until 1975 in this second phase. In 1978 he returned to his club after two small adventures with the Santiago Wanderers and the up-and-coming CD Cobreloa ran short, but with Cobreloa with the second division championship the basis for the later success of the newly founded club was created. In 1978 he played another year at Colo-Colo and screwed his number of league games for the club to 354. The 179 goals scored are a club record for Colo-Colo to this day. Furthermore, Valdés is still the player with the second most goals in the Chilean Primera División, only behind Pedro González Vera . However, it should be noted that Francisco Valdés acted as a midfielder throughout his career, but revealed immense offensive qualities.

After all, Francisco Valdés played for San Marcos de Arica for three years after his third and final engagement at Colo-Colo before ending his footballing career at the end of the 1981 season at the age of 38.

National team

Between 1962 and 1975 Francisco Valdés made a total of 52 international matches for the Chilean national football team . He got nine hits. National coach Luis Álamos called him into the South American squad for the 1966 World Cup in England . In the finals itself, however, Valdés was not used, while the Chilean selection experienced a bitter disappointment and in the preliminary round in a group with the Soviet Union , North Korea and Italy as the bottom of the group with only one point, achieved against the North Koreans, eliminated.

After qualifying for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico failed, Chile provided another participant in the 1974 World Cup in Germany . Francisco Valdés was even active as captain and was used in every tournament game of the Chileans, where he was replaced every time in the second half. For the national team of Chile, however, the World Cup in Germany was just as unenjoyable as the one in England eight years earlier, because again the end came after the group stage. In a group with hosts Germany , the GDR and Australia only two draws against the GDR and Australia, while the Federal Republic lost 1-0. This meant third place in the end and thus the elimination after the preliminary round.

As part of qualifying for the 1974 World Cup, Chile had to play in playoff games against the Soviet Union and had a goalless draw in Moscow in the first leg . After Augusto Pinochet's military put on a coup against the socialist government of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973 and turned the national stadium in Santiago into a kind of concentration camp, the Soviet team refused to play in the second leg. Chile had no opponents, but the game started anyway. Francisco Valdés scored the 1-0 after a few passes among the Chilean attackers. Then the referee whistled because there was no opponent to kick off. Chile was thus qualified for the 1974 World Cup.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Francisco Valdés became a football coach. In this role he coached the teams of Coquimbo Unido , Lota Schwager , Rangers de Talca and CD Magallanes, among others . However, he was denied major successes.

After Valdés had his last job as a coach at Magallanes in 1997, he retired into private life. The former midfielder died of heart failure on August 10, 2009 in Santiago de Chile at the age of 66.

successes

1963 and 1972 with Colo-Colo
1974 with Colo-Colo
  • Chilean second division championship : 1 ×
1977 with CD Cobreloa
1973 with Colo-Colo

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personal data
SURNAME Valdés, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valdés Muñoz, Francisco Segundo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile , Chile
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2009
Place of death Santiago de Chile , Chile