Juan Machuca

Juan de Dios Machuca Valdés (born 7 March 1951) is a Chilean football defender who played for Chile in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.^[1]

Juan Machuca

Personal information
Full name	Juan de Dios Machuca Valdés
Date of birth	(1951-03-07) 7 March 1951 (age 74)
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

Career

Machuca played all his career for Unión Española, winnning the Chilean Primera División titles in 1973, 1975 and 1977.^[2][3] With them, he reached the final match in the 1975 Copa Libertadores.^[4][5]

At international level, he made 35 appearances in total for the Chile national team,^[2] earning 22 caps in official matches from 1972 to 1977.^[6] He was a member of the Chile squad in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.^[7]

As a coach, he led Deportes Polpaico in the 1997 Cuarta División,^[8] 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.^[9]