Jaime Valdés
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Valdés with Deportes La Serena in 2020 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jaime Andrés Valdés Zapata | ||
| Date of birth | 11 January 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Palestino | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2000 | Palestino | 39 | (15) |
| 2000–2004 | Bari | 119 | (8) |
| 2004–2005 | Fiorentina | 5 | (0) |
| 2005–2008 | Lecce | 116 | (15) |
| 2008–2010 | Atalanta | 61 | (10) |
| 2010–2012 | Sporting CP | 24 | (5) |
| 2011–2012 | → Parma (loan) | 20 | (1) |
| 2012–2013 | Parma | 35 | (4) |
| 2014–2019 | Colo-Colo | 136 | (21) |
| 2020–2021 | Deportes La Serena | 33 | (2) |
| 2021–2022 | San Antonio Unido | 20 | (1) |
| 2022 | Santiago Wanderers | 14 | (1) |
| Total | 622 | (83) | |
| International career | |||
| 2001 | Chile U20 | 6 | (1) |
| 2001–2015 | Chile | 3 | (0) |
| 2001 | Chile B | 1 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Jaime Andrés Valdés Zapata (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxajme βalˈdes] born 11 January 1981) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a midfielder. Valdés was member of his national under-20 national team in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship and has represented three times the senior team between 2001 and 2010.
Product of Palestino prolific youth ranks, he has played more than ten years in Italy, where netted 38 goals in clubs like Bari, Lecce, Atalanta and Parma, being Fiorentina the only one club where he failed to score. After years spending in Europe, in 2014, Valdés returned to Chile and reached the Torneo Clausura title, as well as was awarded as the Chilean Footballer of the Year in December of that year. Having played fourteen seasons at Italy, is the Chilean with most consecutive season in it, being over Iván Zamorano who has a season less.