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Diego Valoyes
Colombian footballer (born 1996)
Diego Luis Valoyes Ruíz (born 22 September 1996) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Liga MX club Juárez.[2]
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Valoyes with Colombia in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Diego Luis Valoyes Ruíz | ||
| Date of birth | (1996-09-22) 22 September 1996 (age 27) | ||
| Place of birth | Cartagena, Colombia[1] | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Right winger[1] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Juárez | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Alianza Sport | |||
| Fútbol Paz | |||
| Los Calamares | |||
| Real Cartagena | |||
| 2013–2015 | La Equidad | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2020 | La Equidad | 80 | (6) |
| 2018–2020 | → Talleres (loan) | 23 | (1) |
| 2020–2023 | Talleres | 90 | (22) |
| 2023– | Juárez | 3 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021– | Colombia | 6 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 September 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:18, 7 April 2023 (UTC) | |||
Valoyes began his senior career with La Equidad, after youth spells with Alianza Sport, Fútbol Paz, Los Calamares and Real Cartagena.[3] He made his debut against Categoría Primera B's Tigres in the Copa Colombia in March 2015, prior to featuring in pro league football for the first time on 4 September versus Deportivo Pasto.[2][4] Almost a year later, in 2016, Valoyes scored his first goal against the same opponents during a 4–0 victory at the Estadio Metropolitano de Techo.[2] In the following campaign of 2017, he netted five times as the club placed eleventh overall.[2] Valoyes left on 28 June 2018 to join Talleres of the Argentine Primera División on loan.[5]
The centre-forward featured fifteen times in all competitions for Talleres in 2018–19, prior to departing back to Colombia on 30 June.[2] However, on 4 July, Talleres resigned Valoyes on loan.[6][7]
He made his debut for Colombia national football team on 16 November 2021 in a World Cup qualifier against Paraguay.[8]
- As of 21 September 2018[2]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| La Equidad | 2015 | Categoría Primera A | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 2016 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 26 | 1 | ||||
| 2017 | 36 | 5 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 2[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 42 | 5 | ||||
| 2018 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | ||||
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 79 | 6 | 13 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 94 | 6 | |||
| Talleres (loan) | 2018–19 | Primera División | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 2019–20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 88 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 109 | 6 | ||
- Appearances in Categoría Primera A play-offs
- Appearances in Copa Libertadores
- "Diego Valoyes". World Football. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- "Colombia - D. Valoyes". Soccerway. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- "Diego Valoyes, la nueva joya de Equidad". El Espectador. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- "Ficha Estadistica de DIEGO VALOYES". BDFA. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- "Diego Valoyes fue fichado por Talleres de Córdoba". Antena2. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- "La Comisión Directiva del Club informa que se renovó por un año más el vínculo contractual con el delantero Diego Valoyes". Talleres. 4 July 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- "Talleres confirmó que el colombiano Valoyes seguirá un año más en el club". Mundo D - La Voz. 4 July 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- "Colombia v Paraguay game report". FIFA. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- Diego Valoyes at Soccerway