José Daniel Valencia

José Daniel Valencia
Valencia (1982)
Personnel
Surname	José Daniel Valencia
birthday	3rd October 1955
place of birth	San Salvador de Jujuy ,  Argentina
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1973-1974	Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy	5 (1)
1975-1988	CA Talleres	274 0(29)
1986	LDU Portoviejo	26 (1)
1988	Guaraní Antonio Franco
1989	Rosario Central	0 0(0)
1989-1990	Jorge Wilstermann	26 (0)
1991-1993	Club San José	78 0(6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1975-1982	Argentina	41 0(5)
1 Only league games are given.

José Daniel Valencia (born October 3, 1955 in San Salvador de Jujuy ) is a former Argentine soccer player who took part in the 1978 and 1982 World Cups with the national team of his home country and won the world championship in 1978 .

Career

Club career

José Daniel Valencia began his football career in 1973 with the CA Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy club from his hometown of San Salvador de Jujuy. After a year with the provincial club, he moved to CA Talleres in Cordoba . For the club from the second largest city in Argentina , Valencia completed 274 games with 29 goals in the Argentine league operation in the 13 years that he was a member of Talleres. With Talleres, where he played with other Argentine top players of the time such as Miguel Oviedo and Luis Galván , José Daniel Valencia did not win a title, with CA Talleres barely winning a second (1977) or third (1980) place a few times missed winning the Argentine soccer championship. Towards the end of his career, Valencia was loaned from Talleres to LDU Portoviejo in Ecuador in 1986 , two years later he left Córdoba for good and went to Guaraní Antonio Franco , an Argentine provincial club from Posadas , from where he moved to Rosario Central in 1989 . After not playing a league game for Rosario, Valencia joined the Jorge Wilstermann club from Bolivia in the same year , played there for a year and moved again in 1990. This time he went to Club San José , where he let his career end from 1991 to 1993.

National team

José Daniel Valencia completed 41 games for the Argentina national football team between 1975 and 1982 , in which he scored five goals. In 1978 he became coach César Luis Menotti into the squad for the FIFA World Cup rely on home soil. There Valencia was used in the first four games of Argentina before he lost his regular place due to a tactical change Menotti. Even in the final in which Argentina by a 3: 1 after extra time against the Netherlands in the Estadio Monumental of Buenos Aires secured the first world championship in its history, Valencia was not used. Four years later in Spain he was again in the defending champion's squad . This final was disappointing not only for the Argentines, but also for Valencia themselves, as he was only used in the second round match against Italy (2-1), where he came on in the 58th minute. After the World Cup, he ended his career in the national team.

Web links

• national-football-teams-com Profile of the player
• Biography of José Daniel Valencia
• José Daniel Valencia - Information about the player