Luis Valenzuela

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Luis Valenzuela
Personal information
Full name Luis Gabriel Valenzuela Toledo
Date of birth (1988-02-22) 22 February 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Puente Alto, Santiago, Chile
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Santiago City
Number 26
Youth career
2001–2005 Colo-Colo
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006–2008 Colo-Colo 3 (0)
2007Deportes Temuco (loan) 20 (3)
2008Santiago Morning (loan) 2 (0)
2009 Deportes Temuco 4 (0)
2010 Curicó Unido 29 (6)
2011–2012 Unión San Felipe 22 (0)
2012 Unión San Felipe B 6 (5)
2012–2014 Deportes Antofagasta 44 (12)
2014–2015 O'Higgins 30 (5)
2015 Cobresal 12 (2)
2016 Deportes Melipilla 14 (7)
2017 Santiago Wanderers 14 (3)
2017–2018 Deportes Antofagasta 10 (2)
2018–2019 Santiago Wanderers 28 (3)
2019–2021 Ñublense 37 (2)
2022 Deportes Melipilla 5 (0)
2024– Santiago City (–)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 April 2024

Luis Gabriel Valenzuela Toledo (born 22 February 1988) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Santiago City.

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Career

He began his career as a youth player as a U-12 in Colo-Colo, the most successful team in Chile, then he was promoted to the adult team in 2006, aged 18, where he made his debut in August 2006 and at the end of the season, won Clausura 2006 Chilean Championship along with his team members Alexis and Humberto Suazo. Also ended up as the runner-up in Copa Sudamericana 2006 under the lead management of Claudio Borghi. He stayed in Colo-Colo until 2007. Then he joined Santiago Morning in 2008. After the contract ended, he signed with Unión Temuco in 2009. In 2010, he played with Curicó Unido a team from the Chilean Primera División B. Beginning the season 2010/2011, he had agreed upon a contract with Unión San Felipe.

In August 2011, ArceSports (the footballer's agent) in association with Soccer Soccer Sport in Brazil, got a pre-contract between Luis Valenzuela and Ceará Sporting Club for a five-year period with this Campeonato Brasileiro Série A team.

In 2014, he signed with Chilean club O'Higgins. [1] [2]

In 2024, he signed with Santiago City FC in the Chilean Tercera A. [3] [4]

Personal life

He is well-known by his nickname Larry Valenzuela. [5]

Honours

Colo-Colo

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References

  1. "Octavio Rivero y Luis Valenzuela ya se pusieron la camiseta celeste | O'Higgins FC". Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  2. "Luis Valenzuela fue presentado como nuevo jugador de O'Higgins".
  3. Suárez, Cristóbal; Larraín, Benjamín (5 April 2024). "Sebastián Toro deja el retiro y vuelve al fútbol chileno: este es su nuevo equipo". En Cancha (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 April 2024. Mauro Maureira, José Echave y Luis Larry Valenzuela son aquellos que firmaron con el cuadro Ciudadano esta temporada.
  4. @sancityfc (5 April 2024). "ꜰᴏʀᴍᴀᴄɪᴏɴ ᴅᴇ ꜱᴀɴᴛɪᴀɢᴏ ᴄɪᴛʏ" (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 April 2024 via Instagram.
  5. Gómez, J. C. (9 November 2014). ""Larry" Valenzuela, el ex albo que encontró su lugar en Rancagua" (in Spanish). La Tercera . Retrieved 3 August 2022.