Jorge Dely Valdés
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Jorge Luis Dely Valdés | |
| Date of birth | March 12, 1967 (age 40) | |
| Place of birth | Colón, Panama, Panama | |
| Playing position | Forward | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1975-1987 | Atlético Colón | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1988-1989 1989-1990 1991 1992 1993-1994 1995 1996 1997-1998 1999-2000 2001-2002 2003 2003-2006 |
 Deportivo Paraguayo Porvenir Nacional Unión Española Toshiba Kawasaki Cerezo Osaka Tosu Futures Consadole Sapporo Colorado Rapids Omiya Ardija Kawasaki Frontale Arabe Unido |
?? (??) ?? (??) ?? (??) ?? (??) 47 (53) 31 (19) 25 (24) 60 (61) 52 (17) 50 (34) 18 (3) ?? (??) |
| National team | ||
| 1990-2005 | Panama | ?? (??) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 2006-present | Panama Sub-17 and Sub-20 | |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Jorge Luis Dely Valdes (born March 12, 1967 in Colon, Panama) is a Panamanian football player, one of the best of his generation. He is a twin brother of Julio Dely Valdes.
Dely Valdes 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 Nacional of Uruguay the next season, where he won the Uruguayan Championship in 1992. In the next year, he won the Chilean Cup championship with Unión Española.
Dely Valdes then moved to the J. League, where he played with Toshiba. In his first season, 1993, he led the J. League scoring table with 20 goals, and improved that in 1994, again leading the league with 34. Dely Valdes was transferred to Cerezo Osaka for the 1995 season, and continued his dominance, scoring 19 goals. In the subsequent season he moved to Tosu Futures, where he scored 24 goals. For the 1998 season, Dely Valdes was signed by a second division club, Consadole Sapporo, looking to return to the first division; Jorge helped the team do just that, by scoring 40 goals in leading the team back. Dely Valdes remained with Sapporo in 1999, scoring 20 goals that season.
Dely Valdes returned to CONCACAF following the 1999 J. League season to play in Major League Soccer for the Colorado Rapids. Dely Valdes 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.
Jorge was a very dangerous striker for the Panama national team for over a decade, playing with the team in the 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Cup Qualifying cycles.
In the Gold Cup of 2005, he scored two goals and led Panama to the final match against the United States.
