Nelson Valdez
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 Nelson Valdez (2010)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Nelson Antonio Haedo Valdez | |
| birthday | November 28, 1983 | |
| place of birth | San Joaquín , Paraguay | |
| size | 178 cm | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Primero de Mayo | ||
| 1998-2000 | Atlético Tembetary | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2000-2001 | Atlético Tembetary | 22 (11) |
| 2001-2005 | Werder Bremen II | 51 (24) |
| 2002-2006 | Werder Bremen | 80 (21) |
| 2006-2010 | Borussia Dortmund | 113 (16) |
| 2010-2011 | Hércules Alicante | 25 (8) |
| 2011–2012 | Rubin Kazan | 20 (3) |
| 2012-2013 | Valencia CF | 28 (6) |
| 2013-2014 | al-Jazira Club | 12 (4) |
| 2014 | → Olympiacos Piraeus (loan) | 10 (6) |
| 2014-2015 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 10 (1) |
| 2015-2016 | Seattle Sounders | 12 (1) |
| 2017– | Club Cerro Porteño | 1 (1) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2003 | Paraguay U-20 | 4 (1) |
| 2004– | Paraguay | 74 (13) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of April 17, 2016 2 As of December 31, 2015 |
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Nelson Antonio Haedo Valdez ( better known in Germany by his second surname Valdez ; born November 28, 1983 in San Joaquín , Caaguazú ) is a Paraguayan football player . He is currently under contract with Club Cerro Porteño and plays for the Paraguayan national team .
Career
Club career
youth
Valdez learned to play football at Atlético Tembetary , for whom he made his debut in Paraguay's first division at the age of 15.
Werder Bremen
After Jürgen L. Born Valdez was recommended in Paraguay and he convinced himself of his qualities on site, he paid him for the plane ticket to Bremen. Valdez moved to Werder Bremen in 2001 at the age of 18 and was first used for the A-youth and later in the Regionalliga Nord for the amateurs. After a few sporadic missions in the 2002/03 season, he was a permanent member of the Bundesliga squad of Werder Bremen in the following season. He signed his first professional contract, which ran until 2007, in October 2003. Valdez was voted third in Paraguay's 2004 soccer player of the year and second in 2005.
Borussia Dortmund
On July 1, 2006, he moved to Borussia Dortmund due to better prospects , because Ivan Klasnić was contesting him for his regular place in Bremen and he was usually only used as a substitute. Valdez signed a four-year contract with BVB until 2010. In his first season (2006/07) for Borussia Dortmund, he only scored his first goal against VfL Wolfsburg on matchday 32 . He scored his second goal for Borussia Dortmund on matchday two of the 2007/08 season in the 1: 4 defeat at FC Schalke 04 . Valdez marked the interim goal to 1: 3 in this game; later he got two more goals this season.
With Borussia Dortmund he reached the DFB Cup final in Berlin on April 19, 2008 , which the team lost 2-1 to Bayern Munich .
After Valdez had shown good performances in parts in his third season for BVB in the second half of the season, his contract was extended early in April 2009 to summer 2012.
Hércules Alicante
In August 2010, Valdez and Hércules Alicante agreed on a three-year contract dated June 30, 2013. The transfer fee was 3.5 million euros, which could be increased to four million euros through additional agreements. In his first game for Alicante on September 11, 2010, Valdez scored both goals for a 2-0 away win at FC Barcelona . With the descent to the Segunda División , he left the club again. In the 2010/11 season he made 25 games for Hércules and scored eight goals.
Rubin Kazan
In August 2011 Valdez moved to the Premjer Liga to Rubin Kazan . He made his first game for his new club on September 10, 2011 in the 1: 3 defeat against FK Krasnodar .
Valencia CF
In August 2012, Valdez moved to Valencia CF on loan with an option to buy for the 2012/13 season . On February 25, 2013, he was finally committed. He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2015.
al-Jazira
During the summer break of 2013, Valdez was signed by the al-Jazira Club in Abu Dhabi ; he received a two-year contract.
Loan to Greece
On January 31, 2014, the striker signed a loan contract initially limited to the end of the season with the Greek club Olympiacos Piraeus ; the association secured a purchase option.
Eintracht Frankfurt
On July 29, 2014, Valdez signed a two-year contract with Eintracht Frankfurt, valid until 2016, and returned to the Bundesliga and to his former coach Thomas Schaaf . In the first three competitive games of the 2014/15 season , he was one of the starting XI of Eintracht. On August 30, 2014, the second match day of the season, he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in the 2-2 draw in the away game against VfL Wolfsburg without outside interference and was therefore out of action for at least half a year. On March 14, 2015 he celebrated his return against SC Paderborn , where he came on for Haris Seferović in the 74th minute and scored the goal to make it 4-0. On July 16, 2015, Valdez agreed with the club to terminate the contract.
Seattle Sounders
From August 2015 Valdez was under contract with the Seattle Sounders and won the MLS Cup in 2016 .
Club Cerro Porteño
On January 1, 2017, Valdez moved back to his home country for free to the traditional club Club Cerro Porteño . With this he plays in the 1st Paraguayan league, the Primera División (Paraguay) , as well as in the Copa Sudamericana 2017 .
National team
Paraguay U-20
In 2002, the then German U-21 national coach Jürgen Kohler intended to win Valdez through naturalization for the German national team and had a corresponding national jersey with the number 11 flocked for Valdez. However, following his mother's advice, Valdez chose Paraguay.
Valdez was nominated for Paraguay's U-20 squad at the 2003 Junior World Cup in the United Arab Emirates . He played in all three group games and scored one goal in the last game in a 2-0 win over Germany , Paraguay finished second . In the round of 16 they lost 1-0 to Spain .
A national team
In 2004 he was nominated for the first time in the Paraguay squad for the Copa America . Valdez made his debut in Paraguay's A-selection in April 2004 in an international friendly in South Korea.
According to other sources, he made his debut on July 8, 2004 in a 1-0 draw against Costa Rica . Also in the second game in the 1-1 draw against Chile . In the quarterfinals they were eliminated by Uruguay after losing 3-1.
On August 17, 2005, he scored his first goal for Paraguay against El Salvador .
During the qualification for the 2006 World Cup , he scored the 1-0 final against Venezuela on October 8, 2005. His team qualified fourth for the World Cup. Valdez was nominated for the 23-man squad. At the World Cup they were eliminated in the group stage after Paraguay had lost 1-0 to England and Sweden ; only the last game against Trinidad and Tobago was won 2-0.
Life
In the picture , Valdez reported in April 2008 about his time as a homeless person, about the fear that his parents might be kidnapped, about the people in his home country and other experiences he had made before his professional career in Germany:
Valdez grew up in the small village of San Joaquín in the Caaguazú department in Paraguay. As a 15-year-old he came to the second division Atlético Tembetary, where his earnings were low. As a homeless person, he spent the night under a grandstand for two years. After the daily soccer game, he regularly consumed Caña, a sugar cane liquor popular in Paraguay , and said he was threatened by alcoholism . This definitely ended when he moved to Werder Bremen . However, he kept in close contact with his homeland and provided financial support to people in need there.
After many years in Germany, Valdez speaks fluent German . Together with his wife, who comes from there, he owns a house in Bremen , but now has the center of his life on Mallorca .
successes
- Paraguay
- Participation in the junior soccer world championship : 2003
- Participation in the Copa América : 2004 and 2011
- Participation in the Summer Olympics : 2004
- Participation in the soccer world championships : 2006 and 2010
- Werder Bremen
- Olympiacos Piraeus
Trivia
Valdez scored the latest goal in the history of the Bundesliga. On August 6, 2004, in the opening game of the 2004/05 season - as usual a game on Friday evening - he scored the 1-0 winner in the 83rd minute for reigning champions Werder Bremen against FC Schalke 04 . As a main cable was damaged during construction work in the area around the Weser Stadium in the run-up to the game, the floodlights went out shortly before the scheduled kick-off at 8:30 p.m., so that the game began with a delay of around 65 minutes at around 9:35 p.m. Due to this late kick-off time, the goal by Valdez fell at around 11:13 p.m., making it the latest goal in Bundesliga history.
Web links
- Official website
- Nelson Valdez in the database of weltfussball.de
- Nelson Valdez in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Nelson Valdez in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Kai Niels Bogena: Mother Valdez saves Klose competition in the DFB team. In: welt.de . August 10, 2004, accessed December 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Valdez moves to Alicante , kicker.de
- ^ Instead of Huntelaar: Rubin Kazan gets Nelson Valdez , August 14, 2011
- ↑ Official VCF Statement. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "Estoy orgulloso de pertenecer en propiedad al Valencia CF" ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Valdez changes to Al-Jazira at transfermarkt.de
- ↑ Mitroglou lands at Fulham, Valdez signs report on kicker.de, accessed on January 31, 2014
- ↑ Eintracht obliges Nelson Valdez ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at eintracht.de, July 29, 2014
- ↑ Nelson Valdez suffers cruciate ligament rupture ( memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at eintracht.de, August 30, 2014
- ↑ Striker Valdez leaves Frankfurt on sport1.de on July 16, 2015, accessed on July 16, 2015
- ↑ Nelson Valdez Professional Experience at soundersfc.com, accessed December 17, 2016
- ↑ Peter Hess: Bremer Connection. In: FAZ.net . July 30, 2014, accessed December 17, 2014 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Valdez, Nelson |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haedo Valdez, Nelson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Paraguayan soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Joaquín (Caaguazú) , Caaguazú , Paraguay |