Francisco Valdés

Francisco Valdés

Francisco Valdés Muñoz Segundo ( born March 19, 1943 in Santiago de Chile, † August 10, 2009 ) was a Chilean football player and later coach. When Active, above all with CSD Colo -Colo very successful and also double World Cup participants, he was later in Chile 's first division coach.

Playing career

Club career

Francisco Valdés was born in 1943 in the Chilean capital Santiago, started playing football at the club based there CSD Colo -Colo, today 's most successful club of the Chilean football. In Colo -Colo Valdés played his first league game in 1961 and initially remained until 1969 with the club. During this time he made 220 ​​league games with 133 Torerfolgen in the jersey of Colo- Colo. Further, in the season 1963 succeeded in winning the football championship of Chile after in La Liga at the end of all game days, the first rank with a point clear of CF Universidad de Chile was occupied.

1969 left Francisco Valdés Colo -Colo first to join city rivals Unión Española. After a year there, and another year at Deportes Antofagasta attacking midfielder but eventually returned to his hometown club, where he even soon became the captain. In his first year after his return to Colo- Colo he was able to win for the second time with the club, the Chilean championship. This time, in the Primera División in 1972, the first place in the standings with three points reached before Unión Española. This one was entitled to start for the Copa Libertadores 1973, where the team of coach Luis Alamos caused a quite big surprise when -. After leaving in the second group stage of Club Cerro Porteño from Paraguay and Botafogo Rio de Janeiro of Brazil behind - the catchment succeeded to the final. In this finale, the team met to players like Carlos Caszely Sergio Ahumada or Leonardo Véliz on the Argentine representative Independiente Avellaneda, which represented his wedding the serial winner of the Copa Libertadores. Also Colo -Colo was not successful against Independiente, although only a play brought victory for the Argentines. After return game it had been draw before Independiente 2-1 was victorious after extra time in the playoff of Montevideo.

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

Finally, Francisco Valdés played after his third and final commitment to Colo -Colo three years for San Marcos de Arica, before in 1981 he ended his footballing career after the end of the season at the age of 38 years.

National

Between 1962 and 1975 it brought Francisco Valdés on a total of 52 caps for the Chilean national soccer team. Here he succeeded in nine matches. From coach Luis Alamos he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1966 in England. In the final competition itself Valdés, however, was not used, while the Chilean selection experienced a bitter disappointment and in the first round in a group with the Soviet Union, North Korea and Italy as Group Last by only one point, achieved against the North Koreans, was eliminated.

After qualifying for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico failed, Chile presented at the Football World Cup 1974 in Germany again a participant. Francisco Valdés was there active even as a captain and was used in every tournament game of the Chileans, where he was also replaced every time during the second half. For the national team of Chile, the World Cup was in Germany, however, just as little edifying as those in England eight years before, because again came off after the group stage. In a group with hosts Germany, East Germany, and Australia arrive only two draws against East Germany and Australia, while they lost the Federal Republic of 0:1. This meant the end of third place and thus the elimination in the first round.

As part of the qualification for the World Cup 1974 Chile had to play in playoff games against the Soviet Union and had managed a goalless draw in the first leg in Moscow. After September 11, 1973 the military to Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende and converted the National Stadium of Santiago in a kind of concentration camp, refused the Soviet team to compete in the second leg. Chile had no opponent, the game was yet under way. Francisco Valdés scored the 1-0 after some bobbling under the Chilean attacker. After the referee whistled off because no enemy was to be found for offense. Chile was thus qualified for the World Cup in 1974.

Coaching career

After his playing career was Francisco Valdés football coach. In this role, he trained, among others, the teams of Coquimbo Unido, Lota Schwager, Rangers de Talca or CD Magallanes. Great successes were thereby denied him, however.

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

Achievements

• Chilean Championship: 2x

• Chilean Cup win: 1x

• Chilean second division championship: 1x

• Finals in the Copa Libertadores: 1x