Armando Dely Valdés
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Armando Javier Dely Valdés | ||
| Date of birth | January 5, 1964 | ||
| Place of birth | Colón, Panama | ||
| Date of death | August 17, 2004 (aged 40) | ||
| Place of death | Colón, Panama | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1983 | Técnica y Deportes | ||
| 1983–1988 | Argentinos Juniors | (18) | |
| 1988 | Instituto de Córdoba | ||
| 1989 | San Martín | ||
| 1989–1990 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||
| 1990–1991 | Beitar Tel Aviv | ||
| 1991 | Peñarol | ||
| 1992 | Liverpool MVD | 12 | (2) |
| 1995 | Plaza Amador | ||
| National team | |||
| 1984–1995 | Panama | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1996 | Plaza Amador | ||
| Árabe Unido | |||
| 1996–2001 | Panama (assistant) | ||
| Panama U-20 | |||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Armando Javier Dely Valdés (5 January 1964 – 17 August 2004) was a Panamanian footballer. He was the elder brother of the twins Julio Dely Valdés and Jorge Dely Valdés.
He started his playing career with Técnica y Deportes in Panama.
In 1983, he was signed by Argentinos Juniors and went on to win a number of major titles with the club. They were back-to-back league champions in the Metropolitano 1984 and the Nacional 1985. They went on to win the Copa Libertadores in 1985 and the 1985 Copa Interamericana, and played in the Copa Intercontinental against Juventus of Italy.
Nicknamed Pelé, Dely Valdés left Argentinos Juniors for another Argentine team, Instituto de Córdoba. He went on to play for San Martín de Tucumán in Argentina, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Beitar Tel Aviv in Israel, Peñarol and Liverpool in Uruguay.
Dely Valdés represented his country in 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches His final international was a December 1995 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Guatemala.
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