Jaime Valdés equaled legendary record in Chilean soccer



[ad_1]

Jaime Valdes He entered the history of Chilean soccer with a very difficult mark to achieve. With his goal for La Serena against O’Higgins, ‘Pajarito’ became the third Chilean player to score goals in four different decades. Before, Eduardo ‘Mocho’ Gómez and recently Rodrigo Millar did.

Coincidentally, Valdés’ first goal also went to O’Higgins on March 6, 1999, by Palestino in the Municipal stadium of La Cisterna. He did so in the 72nd minute of the Arabs’ 4-2 victory, on the second date of the 1999 championship. He was 18 years and 54 days old and the beaten goalkeeper was Roberto ‘Beto’ González.

That 1999 (1990s) he scored 15 goals. Then the scoring path continued in the 2000 with 35 wins and in the 2010 with 41 annotations. Most of those conquests were in European football, where he shone in Italy (Bari, Fiorentina, Lecce, Atalanta and Parma) and Portugal (Sporting Lisboa). He then returned with great success to Colo Colo in 2014.

Valdes did not score a goal two years and 125 days ago. It was with the Colo Colo shirt, on May 2, 2018, in the 2-1 victory against Delfin in Ecuador, for the group stage of the Copa Libertadores.

The record of the ‘Mocho’ Gómez

Eduardo GomezA historic central defender for Cobreloa, Ovalle and the Chilean national team, he scored goals in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. His first goal was scored on December 8, 1978, by Deportes Ovalle in a 3-3 draw against Coquimbo United. The following year he scored for Cobreloa in the 1-1 against Unión Española, for the Polla Gol Cup.

In the eighties, the ‘Mocho’ scored nine goals for Cobreloa. In the nineties he did eight for the miners, La Serena and on his return to Ovalle. In the decade of the two thousand he scored three goals for the Ovallino team.

Gomez scored his first goal at 20 years and 189 days. His last goal marked him at 43 years and 140 days, on October 20, 2001. In the 20th minute, he beat Deportes Arica’s goal, with a header, in a 3-2 home win at Ovalle.

The goals of the ‘Chino’ Millar

Rodrigo Millar scored his first goal in the 1990s. On December 5, 1999, wearing the Huachipato shirt, he scored 1-0 at 38 ‘in the 3-1 defeat against Audax Italiano in Florida. He was 18 years and 32 days old.

Later, the ‘Chino’ scored 82 times in the 2000s and 32 in the 2010s, wearing the shirts of Huachipato, Colo Colo, Once Caldas, Atlas, Morelia and La Roja. With the Morelia shirt, Millar had his first scorer in the new decade with 38 years and 112 days, on February 23 of this year against Pumas.

[ad_2]