Sebastián Eduardo Pardo Campos (born 1 January 1982) is a Chilean former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Pardo was born in

Quillota Quillota is a city located in the Aconcagua River valley in central Chile's Valparaíso Region. It is the capital and largest city of Quillota Province, where many inhabitants live in the outlying farming areas of San Isidro, La Palma, Pocochay ...

. He began his career at

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, and joined

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in 2002–03, debuting on 10 September 2002, against

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(4–1 win), scoring his first goal for Feyenoord in that match. He was largely used as a backup at Feyenoord during the five years he spent there, and joined Excelsior in 2007–08. In July 2008, he returned to Chile to play again for Universidad de Chile. On 9 June 2009, he announced his retirement from football, because of family problems.

International career

Pardo represented Chile at under-17 level in the 1999 South American Championship in Uruguay and Chile at under-20 level in both the 2001 South American Championship in Ecuador and the

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in Argentina. At senior level, Pardo represented

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once, in 2002.

Controversies

Previous to 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship, Pardo and seven other players were arrested in a brothel what must to be closed. The incident was known as "''El episodio de las luces rojas''" (Chapter of the red lights) due to the excuse employed by

Jaime Valdés Jaime Andrés Valdés Zapata ( born 11 January 1981) is a Chilean footballer who plays for Primera B de Chile side Santiago Wanderers. He usually plays as midfielder. Valdés was member of his national under-20 national team in the 2001 FIFA W ...

. After the tournament, the eight players (Valdés, Millar, Salgado, Órdenes, Soto, Droguett, Campos and Pardo) were suspended for three international matches.

Honours

Universidad de Chile *

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

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, 2009 Apertura *

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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* * 1982 births Living people People from Quillota Chilean footballers Association football midfielders Chile international footballers Chile under-20 international footballers Chile youth international footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Eredivisie players Universidad de Chile footballers Feyenoord players Excelsior Rotterdam players Unión Temuco footballers Coquimbo Unido footballers Chilean expatriate footballers Chilean expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands {{Chile-footy-midfielder-stub