Leonardo Véliz

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Leonardo Véliz
Véliz in 2011
Personal information
Full name Leonardo Iván Véliz Díaz
Date of birth (1945-09-03) September 3, 1945 (age 79)
Place of birth Valparaíso, Chile
Position(s) Left winger
Youth career
Juventud Unida
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1964–1967 Everton
1968–1971 Unión Española 110 (28)
1972–1974 Colo-Colo 84 (14)
1975–1978 Unión Española 118 (28)
1979–1982 Colo-Colo 78 (5)
1983 O'Higgins 14 (1)
International career
1966–1981 Chile 39 (2)
Managerial career
1991–1993 Chile U17
1992–1995 Chile U20
1998–2000 Sporting CP (youth)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonardo Iván Véliz Díaz (born September 3, 1945) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a left winger for Everton, O'Higgins, Unión Española and Colo-Colo of Chile and in the Chile national team[1] in the 1974 FIFA World Cup in Germany.[2]

Managerial career

He worked as manager of both Chile U17 and Chile U20, leading the first in the 1993 FIFA World Championship[3] and the second in the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.[4]

From 1998 to 2000 he worked for the Sporting CP youth system, where he coincided with players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Ricardo Quaresma and Fábio Paím.[5]

Personal life

He is well known by his nickname Pollo (Chicken).[6]

His son, Daniel Sebastián Véliz,[7] represented Chile at under-20 level in the 1992 South American Championship.[8]

In 2004, he was elected a councillor of Santiago, supported by Party for Democracy. In 2009, he was a candidate for deputy, supported by for Nueva Mayoría para Chile [es]. In 2010, he switched to the other political hand after supporting Sebastián Piñera in his candidacy for President of Chile.[6]

Honours

Unión Española

Colo-Colo

  • Chilean Primera División: 1972, 1979, 1981

Chile

References

  1. ^ "Leonardo Véliz". National Football Teams. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Leonardo Véliz". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Nóminas de Chile para Copas del Mundo Sub-17". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Nóminas de Chile para Copas del Mundo Sub-20". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  5. ^ Antúnez, Cristopher (3 June 2020). "Leonardo Véliz rompe su mito con Cristiano Ronaldo: "No sé si se acordará, puede que sí, puede que no"". RedGol (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Leonardo "Pollo" Véliz analiza sumarse a campaña de Piñera". La Tercera (in Spanish). La Tercera. 2 January 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  7. ^ "Perfil de Daniel Véliz". es.besoccer.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  8. ^ "Grandes dinastías de la Selección: Padres e hijos que jugaron por "La Roja"". Guioteca.com (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2022.


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