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Francisco Valdés
Personal information
Full name	Francisco Segundo Valdés Muñoz
Date of birth	19 March 1943
Place of birth	Santiago, Chile
Date of death	10 August 2009 (aged 66)
Position(s)	Attacking Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1961–1969	Colo-Colo
1970	Unión Española
1971	Deportes Antofagasta
1972–1975	Colo-Colo
1976	Santiago Wanderers
1977	Cobreloa
1978	Colo-Colo
1979–1981	Deportes Arica
Total
International career
1962–1975	Chile
Managerial career
1989	Coquimbo Unido
1990	San Luis
1992	Lota Schwager
1993–1994	Deportes Puerto Montt
1996	Rangers
1997	Magallanes
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Francisco Segundo Valdés Muñoz, (19 March 1943 - 10 August 2009^[1]), nicknamed Chamaco, was a Chilean footballer and manager. Recognized as one of Chile's most important midfielders, with 215 official goals, he is the top scorer in the history of Chilean league.

Career

Valdés always played in the Chilean first division league, where he became the top scorer in their history with 215 goals in 478 official matches, leaving behind Pedro "Heidi" Gonzalez with 212 goals. He is the maximum gunner for Colo Colo in official tournaments with 180 goals scored (179 in 353 matches during the Chilean national championship and 1 goal during the liguilla Copa Libertadores) and the top scorer in Copa Libertadores with 20 goals in 44 matches.

He was the brains, and alongside Carlos Caszely, the star of Colo Colo 1973, and the champion in 1963 and 1972. He was also runner-up on the Copa Libertadores de America in 1973.

Selected by the Chile national team, he played 50 matches, scoring 9 goals. He was the Chile offensive midfielder in the England 1966 and Germany 1974 FIFA World Cups. In 1973, he was runner-up of the Copa Libertadores with Colo Colo, he was also the captain of the Chile national team.

Personal life

On 6 April 1965, Valdés was one of the constituent footballers of SIFUP^[es], the trade union of professionales footballers in Chile, alongside fellows such as Efraín Santander, Mario Ortiz, Hugo Lepe, among others.^[2]

He was the uncle of Chilean footballer Sebastián "Chamagol" González.

He died of heart failure at his home at the age of 66.

Honours

Colo Colo

Primera División de Chile: 1963, 1972
Copa Chile: 1974

References

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Constitución Sifup". sifup.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.