Juan Machuca

Juan Machuca
Personal information
Full name Juan de Dios Machuca Valdés
Date of birth (1951-03-07) 7 March 1951 (age 75)
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Position Defender
Youth career
Unión Española
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1969–1987 Unión Española 375 (5)
Total 375 (5)
International career
1972–1977 Chile 22 (0)
Managerial career
1997–1998 Deportes Polpaico
2009–2011 Lautaro de Buin
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan de Dios Machuca Valdés (born 7 March 1951) is a Chilean football defender who played for Chile in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

Career

Machuca played all his career for Unión Española, winning the Chilean Primera División titles in 1973, 1975 and 1977. With them, he reached the final match in the 1975 Copa Libertadores.

At international level, he made 35 appearances in total for the Chile national team, earning 22 caps in official matches from 1972 to 1977. He was a member of the Chile squad in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

As a coach, he led Deportes Polpaico in the 1997 Cuarta División, winning the league title. He also coached women's football teams, Lautaro de Buin, among others.

In politics

In 2016, Machuca was a candidate to councillor for Independencia commune as a member of Independent Democratic Union.

References

  1. ↑ 1974 FIFA World Cup Germany Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 @lafuriahispana; (7 March 2024). "Un día como hoy, pero de 1951, nacía Juan De Dios Machuca Valdés, uno de los mejores laterales en la historia de Chile" (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 June 2025 – via Instagram.
  3. ↑ "Unión Española Historia". cdysunionespanola.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  4. ↑ Parker, Matías (17 June 2020). "El crudo relato del mundialista que le ganó al Covid-19 tras pasar días de angustia en la Posta Central". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  5. ↑ "Unión Española (Chile)". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 18 May 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  6. ↑ "Juan Machuca". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  7. ↑ "Plantel 1974". www.solofutbol.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  8. ↑ Andrés, Juan Pablo (20 May 1998). "Chile 1997". RSSSF (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  9. ↑ "Seleccionados en política". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 June 2025.