| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jorge Luis Dely Valdés | ||
| Date of birth | (1967-03-12)March 12, 1967 (age 58) | ||
| Place of birth | Colón,Panama | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1975–1986 | Atlético Colón | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1986–1988 | Central Norte | ||
| 1988–1989 | Deportivo Paraguayo | ||
| 1989–1990 | Porvenir | ||
| 1991 | Nacional | ||
| 1992 | Unión Española | 30 | (13) |
| 1993–1994 | Toshiba | 47 | (53) |
| 1995 | Cerezo Osaka | 31 | (19) |
| 1996 | Tosu Futures | 25 | (24) |
| 1997–1998 | Consadole Sapporo | 60 | (61) |
| 1999–2000 | Colorado Rapids | 52 | (17) |
| 2001–2002 | Omiya Ardija | 50 | (34) |
| 2003 | Kawasaki Frontale | 18 | (3) |
| 2003–2005 | Árabe Unido | ||
| International career | |||
| 1991–2005 | Panama | 48 | (19) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2006 | Panama | ||
| 2006 | Panama U-17 | ||
| 2006–2007 | Panama U-20 | ||
| 2009–2013 | Panama U-17 | ||
| 2014 | Tauro | ||
| 2015 | Águila (assistant) | ||
| 2015 | Tauro | ||
| 2018–2019 | Panama U-20 | ||
| 2020–2022 | Plaza Amador | ||
| 2023– | Panama U-21 | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Jorge Luis Dely Valdés (born March 12, 1967) is a Panamanian formerfootballer who played as aforward. He is a twin brother ofJulio Dely Valdés and younger brother ofArmando Dely Valdés.
Born inColon, Dely Valdés began his professional career in 1989 in Argentina withDeportivo Paraguayo of Argentina, where he scored 28 goals. A move toEl Porvenir for the 1990 season did not prove successful, as a leg injury kept him out most of the season, and he moved toNacional of Uruguay the next season, where he won the Uruguayan Championship in 1992. In the next year, he won the Chilean Cup championship withUnión Española.
Dely Valdés then moved to theJapan Football League, where he played withToshiba. In his first season, 1993, he led the Japan Football scoring table with 20 goals, and improved that in 1994, again leading the league with 34. Delys Valdés was transferred toCerezo Osaka for the 1995 season, and continued his dominance, scoring 19 goals. In the subsequent season he moved toTosu Futures, where he scored 24 goals. For the 1998 season, Dely Valdés was signed by aJapan Football League club,Consadole Sapporo, looking to return to the first division; Jorge helped the team do just that, by scoring 40 goals in leading the team back. Dely Valdés remained with Sapporo in 1999, scoring 20 goals that season. He left them after the 1998 season.[1]
Dely Valdés returned toCONCACAF following the 1999 J. League season to play inMajor League Soccer for theColorado Rapids.[2] Dely Valdés continued his scoring rate in the 1999 MLS season, registering 10 goals and 6 assists in 32 games for the Rapids. He continued to score in 2000, registering another 7 goals and 1 assist in 20 games, 13 starts, for the Rapids.
He returned to Japan to play forOmiya Ardija alongside compatriotAlfredo Anderson[3] and joinedKawasaki Frontale in 2003.[4]
Jorge was a very dangerous striker for thePanama national team for over a decade, playing 27 games with the team in the 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Cup Qualifying cycles.[5] He made his debut in a May1991 UNCAF Nations Cup match againstHonduras and earned a total of 48 caps, scoring 19 goals.[6] He represented his country at the1995 and2001 UNCAF Nations Cups.[7]
In the Gold Cup of 2005, he scored two goals and led Panama to the final match against the United States.[8]
His final international was an October 2005FIFA World Cup qualification match against theUnited States.
On August 8, 2014, he took over as manager atTauro in his native Panama,[9] a position he held until leaving on December 30, 2014[10] to join his brother Julio atÁguila in El Salvador.[11] He returned to Tauro in May 2015,[12] only to be replaced by Rolando Palma in October 2015.[13]
As coach ofU-20 Panama, he managed to write history for the country by helping the national team to win the first ever match in theFIFA U-20 World Cup, a 2–1 victory over Asian championsU-20 Saudi Arabia in2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup and qualified to the round of sixteen for the first time ever in Panamanian history of the U-20 World Cup.
| Panama | ||
| Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 | 5 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 10 | 3 |
| 2001 | 8 | 7 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 7 | 0 |
| 2005 | 10 | 3 |
| Total | 48 | 19 |
International goals
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