Julio César Dely Valdés

Julio César Dely Valdés (Colón, March 12, 1967) is a former Panamanian soccer player and coach who has become a Spanish national, brother of the soccer players Jorge and Armando Dely Valdés. He was named best Panamanian soccer player of the century XX . His best quality was his header and he played as a striker.

Career

He made his football debut at Atlético Colón in Panama. He tried out for Argentinos Juniors but did not stay in the team and went to Deportivo Paraguayo, which played in First D. After one season, he took a big leap by joining Nacional of Uruguay.

His magnificent performance in Nacional made many European clubs notice him, forming part of teams such as Cagliari in Italy, Paris Saint-Germain in France, as well as Real Oviedo and Málaga CF in Spain. After playing in Spain he returned to Nacional and finally concluded his career playing for Arabe Unidos de Colón.

Won the 1992 Uruguayan First Division Championship with Nacional. In Europe he won the European Cup Winners' Cup with PSG and the Intertoto Cup with Málaga CF. He is the top scorer in the history of Málaga CF in the First Division of Spain, where he formed a legendary pair of attackers with the Uruguayan Darío Silva, a forward known as the Double D .

In his entire career he scored more than 200 goals, of which 110 were scored at Nacional de Montevideo, becoming one of the club's most important players in the 1990s along with Hugo De León, Rubén Sosa, among others.

He is one of the greatest historical scorers of the Panama soccer team. He participated in the qualifying phases for the Soccer World Cup from 1990 to 2006. He performed with the Panama team in the 2005 Gold Cup, where he achieved runner-up status, the greatest achievement of Panamanian soccer in its history. He announced his retirement at the end of the final hexagonal towards the World Cup in Germany in 2006, where Panama was in last position, coached by José & # 34; Cheché & # 34; Hernandez.

Subsequently, he was the second coach of Málaga CF for two years. He left the position on June 16, 2010, due to the arrival of the new owner of Málaga CF, the Qatari Sheikh Abdullah ben Nasser Al Thani and after the structuring of the club.

On September 14, 2010, after several meetings of the Panamanian Football Federation, the so-called G-9 chose by majority vote Julio César Dely Valdés as coach of the Panamanian football team for a ten-month contract to direct the team for the UNCAF Champions Cup and the Concacaf Gold Cup. This contract has an extension depending on the team's results, it can be extended for the 2014 Soccer World Cup qualifiers that begin in the year 2011. Seeing the good results in the 2011 Central American Cup and the performance he played during the 2011 Concacaf Gold Cup, his contract was extended, subsequently leading Panama to the home run of the second round of the World Cup qualifiers. Concacaf Soccer 2014 with Nicaragua and Dominica (Bahamas declined its participation due to economic difficulties in its Federation), after which the undefeated Panama team qualified for the next round where it faced a home run with Honduras, Canada and Cuba. It classified the Panamanian team to the final hexagonal of Concacaf in second place below Honduras and leaving the Cuban and Canadian teams eliminated. In the final hexagonal they failed to finish in fifth place below the United States, Costa Rica, Honduras and Mexico and above Jamaica, and therefore, the Panama National Team was eliminated from its aspirations to reach the Soccer World Cup. 2014, held in Brazil.

After the failure of the Panamanian team to qualify for the 2014 World Cup and the expiration of the contract as Technical Director of the Panama National Team, Dely Valdés leaves his native country again and Hernán Darío Gómez is hired as the new one to replace him. Coach of the National Team with the objective of Qualifying for the 2018 Soccer World Cup, held in Russia.

He is currently studying to continue training as a coach in Spain.

International goals

No.	Date	Place	Rival	Gol	Outcome	Competition
1	5 May 1991	Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama, Panama	HondurasHonduras	2- 0	2-0	Uncaf Cup 1991
2	2 June 1996	MCC Grounds, Belize, Belize	BelizeBelize	0-1	1-2	1998
3	9 June 1996	Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama, Panama		1- 0	4-1
4				2- 0
5				3 -1
6	19 March 2000	Cacique Diriangén Stadium, Diriamba, Nicaragua	NicaraguaNicaragua	0-2	0-2	Elimination 2002
7	2 April 2000	Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama, Panama	HondurasHonduras	1- 0	1-0
8	21 May 2000	Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama, Panama	NicaraguaNicaragua	1- 0	4-0
9	23 May 2001	Metropolitan Olympic Stadium, San Pedro Sula, Honduras	HondurasHonduras	1-2	1-2	Uncaf Cup 2001
10	30 May 2001		Costa RicaCosta Rica	1-1	2-1
11	24 April 2004	Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama, Panama	BermudaBermuda	2-1	4-1	Friendly
12	2 May 2004	Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores, Guatemala, Guatemala	GuatemalaGuatemala	0-1	1-2
13				0-2
14	13 June 2004	Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama, Panama	Saint LuciaSaint Lucia	1- 0	4-0	2006
15	20 June 2004	George Odlum National Stadium, Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia		0-2	0-3
16	24 July 2004	Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama, Panama	GuatemalaGuatemala	1-1	1-1	Friendly
17	18 August 2004	Stadium Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador	El SalvadorEl Salvador	1-1	2-1	2006
18	4 September 2004	Independence Park, Kingston, Jamaica	JamaicaJamaica	1-2	1-2

Clubs

As a footballer

Club	Country	Year	Parties	Goles
Paraguayan sports	Argentina	1987 - 1988	33	28
National	Uruguay Uruguay	1989 - 1993	114	102.
Cagliari	ItalyItaly	1993 - 1995	73	26
Paris Saint-Germain	France	1995-1997	78	29
Real Oviedo	SpainSpain	1997 - 2000	103	40
Malaga	SpainSpain	2000 - 2003	116	49
National	Uruguay Uruguay	2003	15	8
United Nations	Panama Panama	2004 - 2006	5	2

As second coach

Club	Country	Year	Assistant
Málaga CF	SpainSpain	2008 - 2009	Antonio Tapia
Málaga CF	SpainSpain	2009 - 2010	Juan Muñiz

As a coach

Club	Country	Year
Major selection	Panama Panama	2006
Sub-20 selection	Panama Panama	2006 - 2007
Major selection	Panama Panama	2010 - 2013
United Arab Emirates	Panama Panama	2013 − 2014
CD Eagle	El SalvadorEl Salvador	2015
Málaga CF Juvenil A	SpainSpain	2017
Atletico Malagueño	SpainSpain	2018
Major selection (Interino)	Panama Panama	2019
Selection sub-23 (Interino)	Panama Panama	2019
Sub-20 selection	Panama Panama	2019 - 2020
Taurus FC	Panama Panama	2020 - 2021
United Arab Emirates	Panama Panama	2021 − 2023

Palmarés

National Championships

Title	Club	Country	Year
Uruguayan Championship	National	Uruguay Uruguay	1992
Anaprof Opening	United Nations	Panama Panama	2004
Anaprof Clausura	United Nations	Panama Panama	2004

International championships

Title	Club	Country	Year
Recopa Sudamericana	National	Uruguay Uruguay	1989
Inter-American Cup	National	Uruguay Uruguay	1989
Coup Europe	Paris Saint-Germain	France	1996
Interto Cup	Malaga	SpainSpain	2002

Individual distinctions