Diego Valoyes
Valoyes with Colombia in 2022
Personal information
Full name Diego Luis Valoyes Ruíz
Date of birth (1996-09-22) 22 September 1996
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)
*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)

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]

Club career

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]

International career

He made his debut for Colombia national football team on 16 November 2021 in a World Cup qualifier against Paraguay.[8]

Career statistics

As of 21 September 2018[2]
Club statistics
Club Season League National cup League cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
La Equidad 2015 Categoría Primera A 5010——0060
2016 20160——00261
2017 36540——2[lower-alpha 1]0425
2018 18020——00200
2019 0000—000000
Total 796130—0020946
Talleres (loan) 2018–19 Primera División 9010302[lower-alpha 2]000150
2019–20 000000—0000
Total 9010302020150
Career total 8861403020201096
  1. ↑ Appearances in Categoría Primera A play-offs
  2. ↑ Appearances in Copa Libertadores

References

  1. 1 2 "Diego Valoyes". World Football. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Colombia - D. Valoyes". Soccerway. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Diego Valoyes, la nueva joya de Equidad". El Espectador. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Ficha Estadistica de DIEGO VALOYES". BDFA. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Diego Valoyes fue fichado por Talleres de Córdoba". Antena2. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "Talleres confirmó que el colombiano Valoyes seguirá un año más en el club". Mundo D - La Voz. 4 July 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Colombia v Paraguay game report". FIFA. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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