Jorge Luis Dely Valdés (born March 12, 1967) is a Panamanian former

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who played as a

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. He is a twin brother of

Julio Dely Valdés Julio César Dely Valdés (born March 12, 1967) is a Panamanian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a twin brother of Jorge Dely Valdés and younger brother of Armando Dely Valdés. Club career Born in Colón, Dely ...

and younger brother of Armando Dely Valdés.

Club career

Born in Colon, Dely Valdés began his professional career in 1989 in Argentina with Deportivo Paraguayo of Argentina, where he scored 28 goals. A move to El Porvenir for the 1990 season did not prove successful, as a leg injury kept him out most of the season, and he moved to

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of Uruguay the next season, where he won the Uruguayan Championship in 1992. In the next year, he won the Chilean Cup championship with

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. Dely Valdés then moved to the

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, where he played with

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. 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 to

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for the 1995 season, and continued his dominance, scoring 19 goals. In the subsequent season he moved to

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, where he scored 24 goals. For the 1998 season, Dely Valdés was signed by a

club,

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, 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. Dely Valdés returned to

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following the 1999 J. League season to play in

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for the

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. 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 for

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alongside compatriot

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and joined

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in 2003.

International career

Jorge was a very dangerous striker for the Panama national team for over a decade, playing 27 games with the team in the 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Cup Qualifying cycles. He made his debut in a May

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match against

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and earned a total of 48 caps, scoring 19 goals. He represented his country at the

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and

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s. In the Gold Cup of 2005, he scored two goals and led Panama to the final match against the United States. His final international was an October 2005

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match against the

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Managerial career

On August 8, 2014, he took over as manager at Tauro in his native Panama, a position he held until leaving on December 30, 2014 to join his brother Julio at Águila in El Salvador. He returned to Tauro in May 2015, only to be replaced by Rolando Palma in October 2015. As coach of U-20 Panama, he managed to write history for the country by helping the national team to win the first ever match in the

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, a 2–1 victory over Asian champions U-20 Saudi Arabia in

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and qualified to the round of sixteen for the first time ever in Panamanian history of the U-20 World Cup.

Career statistics

International

International goals

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Honours

Unión Española *

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Individual *

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Best XI (Honorable Mention):

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References

External links

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What Ever Happened To: Jorge Dely Valdés
– MLS Soccer
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