Claudio Maldonado
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| Full name | Claudio Andrés del Tránsito Maldonado Rivera |
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| Date of birth | 3 January 1980 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Curicó, Chile | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Defensive midfielder | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Colo-Colo | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1998–2000 | Colo-Colo | 29 | (2) | |||||||||
| 2000–2002 | São Paulo | 36 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2003–2005 | Cruzeiro | 92 | (4) | |||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Santos | 34 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Fenerbahçe | 17 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Flamengo | 38 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2013 | Corinthians | 8 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Colo-Colo | 16 | (0) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | Chile U17 | |||||||||||
| 2000 | Chile U23 | |||||||||||
| 2000–2010 | Chile | 44 | (1) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 February 2013. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17 November 2012 |
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Claudio Andrés del Tránsito Maldonado Rivera (born 3 January 1980) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder in Colo-Colo.
He spent three seasons with São Paulo making 36 Brazilian Série A appearances with the team.
In May 2003, Vanderlei Luxemburgo, then coach of Cruzeiro, bought the services of Maldonado. At the time of the purchase, Maldonado's then girlfriend was Luxemburgo's daughter. Nevertheless, while with Cruzeiro, Maldonado experienced the most success of his career. In 2003, he played for the only team in the history of Brazilian football to win the triple crown.
For the 2006 season, Maldonado was reunited with former Cruzeiro's coach Luxemburgo at Santos for a fee of $4.5 million. However at the end of the Brazilian season was scheduled to have ankle surgery which caused him to miss up to two months. After recuperating Maldonado continued playing for Santos reaching the semi-finals of the 2007 Copa Libertadores. Currently Santos has completed the 2007 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in second place and are eligible to compete in the upcoming Copa Libertadores 2008. He was being tracked by Fenerbahçe, Milan, Real Madrid and Ajax but no firm offers better than Fenerbahçe have been made. At 28 he was at the peak of his potential and European teams wanted to capitalise on this, but they were probably put off by the 8 red cards that he had received in the previous 3 years at club level.
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