Leonardo Véliz

Leonardo Véliz

Véliz in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Leonardo Iván Véliz Díaz
Date of birth	(1945-09-03) September 3, 1945 (age 79)
Place of birth	Valparaíso, Chile
Position(s)	Left winger
Youth career
	Juventud Unida
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1964–1967	Everton
1968–1971	Unión Española	110	(28)
1972–1974	Colo-Colo	84	(14)
1975–1978	Unión Española	118	(28)
1979–1982	Colo-Colo	78	(5)
1983	O'Higgins	14	(1)
International career
1966–1981	Chile	39	(2)
Managerial career
1991–1993	Chile U17
1992–1995	Chile U20
1998–2000	Sporting CP (youth)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonardo Iván Véliz Díaz (born September 3, 1945) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a left winger for Everton, O'Higgins, Unión Española and Colo-Colo of Chile and in the Chile national team^[1] in the 1974 FIFA World Cup in Germany.^[2]

Managerial career

He worked as manager of both Chile U17 and Chile U20, leading the first in the 1993 FIFA World Championship^[3] and the second in the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.^[4]

From 1998 to 2000 he worked for the Sporting CP youth system, where he coincided with players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Ricardo Quaresma and Fábio Paím.^[5]

Personal life

He is well known by his nickname Pollo (Chicken).^[6]

His son, Daniel Sebastián Véliz,^[7] represented Chile at under-20 level in the 1992 South American Championship.^[8]

In 2004, he was elected a councillor of Santiago, supported by Party for Democracy. In 2009, he was a candidate for deputy, supported by for Nueva Mayoría para Chile ^[es]. In 2010, he switched to the other political hand after supporting Sebastián Piñera in his candidacy for President of Chile.^[6]

Honours

Unión Española

• Chilean Primera División: 1975, 1977

Colo-Colo

• Chilean Primera División: 1972, 1979, 1981

Chile

• Copa O'Higgins: 1966
• Copa Carlos Dittborn ^[es]: 1973 ^[es]

References

1. "Leonardo Véliz". National Football Teams. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
2. "Leonardo Véliz". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
3. "Nóminas de Chile para Copas del Mundo Sub-17". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
4. "Nóminas de Chile para Copas del Mundo Sub-20". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
5. Antúnez, Cristopher (3 June 2020). "Leonardo Véliz rompe su mito con Cristiano Ronaldo: "No sé si se acordará, puede que sí, puede que no"". RedGol (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
6. "Leonardo "Pollo" Véliz analiza sumarse a campaña de Piñera". La Tercera (in Spanish). La Tercera. 2 January 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
7. "Perfil de Daniel Véliz". es.besoccer.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
8. "Grandes dinastías de la Selección: Padres e hijos que jugaron por "La Roja"". Guioteca.com (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2022.

External links

• Profile at FIFA.com Profile at