Nelson Haedo Valdez

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nelson Haedo Valdez
Occupation	Soccer Player
Date Of Birth	Nov 28, 1983(1983-11-28)
Age	41
Birthplace	Paraguay
Country	Paraguay
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Nelson Haedo Valdez Biography

Nelson Haedo Valdez is one of the most popular and richest Soccer Player who was born on November 28, 1983 in Paraguay, Paraguay. Paraguayan soccer player who’s best known for playing for Borussia Dortmund, the Seattle Sounders, Eintracht Frankfurt, and the Paraguay national team.

Both he and Roque Santa Cruz played for the Paraguay national team.

Aged 15, Haedo Valdez left his home and family to move to Ypané when he joined the Youth Academy of Atlético Tembetary, and eventually made his first-team debut in the Paraguayan División Intermedia in 2000. The second division club were not able to pay him a salary large enough to earn a living and his family were not able to provide funding for him. Valdez confessed the difficulty he faced when leaving his impoverished family and his home to begin playing with the club, for two years he lived under the wooden plank grandstands of the stadium in a stairwell, using a makeshift bed of blankets and cardboard which laid in the stairwell beneath the stand. He never told his parents, who were poor land workers. Valdez stated, “For two years I lived under the grandstands, we were 12 or 13 people and some of them only endured two or three weeks.” While living 250 kilometres away from his family, Valdez had no home while playing for Tembetary. He worked night shifts in a sawmill to pay for food and drink. He was a 16-year-old exposed to danger and the Paraguayan climate, boiling hot summers and freezing cold winters, which Valdez described as “hell, frightening and horrible. But if you have nothing, what can they steal? I had nothing to give”. Jürgen Born, chairman of the board or management of German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen and who worked for Deutsche Bank in Latin America, stated that he saw a “madman who never stopped running”, remembering youth games in Ypané. He bought Valdez a ticket to Germany and got on the phone to Werder Bremen. In December 2001, Valdez flew over to Germany for a trial. Valdez failed at first, not impressing in his trial but the club president’s wife, who was a fellow Paraguayan, asked for Valdez to be given another trial. He scored four times in his first trial match and was offered a contract to join Werder Bremen II, the club’s Regionalliga Nord team.

Upon joining Werder Bremen in December 2001, Haedo Valdez did not know a word of German and knew just enough Spanish due to being much more fluent in Guaraní. Valdez stated that his first months were very hard because of the cold weather and that he did not know how to order food properly. For the first few months, he did not eat anything except chicken and chips because he would see it through the glass at a restaurant.

His parents are Silvia and Antonio Haedo. He married his wife Martynka in

2008. The couple has a daughter, Tynka Noemi Beatha and a son, Nelson Samuel.

Nelson Haedo Valdez Net Worth

Nelson Haedo Valdez is one of the richest Soccer Player from Paraguay. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nelson Haedo Valdez 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He played his youth soccer with Tembetary.

He has 700,000 followers on Instagram.

Nelson Antonio Haedo Valdez (born 28 November 1983) commonly known as Nelson Valdez or Nelson Haedo in Spanish speaking countries, is a Paraguayan footballer who plays for Cerro Porteño and the Paraguay national team as a striker.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Nelson Haedo Valdez height 5 feet 10 inches Nelson weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Nelson Haedo Valdez Dating?

According to our records, Nelson Haedo Valdez married to Martynka Haedo Valdez. As of December 1, 2023, Nelson Haedo Valdez’s is not dating anyone.

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Valdez was part of the Paraguay 22-man squad at the 2004 Copa América in Peru. Playing in two of Paraguay’s three group stage games as Paraguay finished in first place and were drawn against Uruguay in the quarter-finals. Valdez played in the quarter-final which Paraguay lost 3–1.

Facts & Trivia

Nelson Ranked on the list of most popular Soccer Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Paraguay. Nelson Haedo Valdez celebrates birthday on November 28 of every year.

Haedo Valdez started his career with Atlético Tembetary, progressing through their youth system to the first-team squad where he made his debut at the age of 16 in Paraguayan División Intermedia in 2000. He finished his career with the club having scored 11 goals in 22 league appearances. In 2001, he was scouted to Germany’s Werder Bremen II, where he scored 15 goals in 30 Regionalliga Nord appearances in his second season before joining the club’s first-team. In 2003, Haedo Valdez was selected for the Paraguay under-20 national team where he scored one goal in four appearances at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship. In his second season with Werder Bremen, he claimed the 2003–04 Bundesliga and 2003–04 DFB-Pokal, having scored five goals in 21 league appearances that season. Haedo Valdez debuted in the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League on 14 September 2004 and scored his first two Champions League goals in a 2–0 victory against Valencia in December. During his years at Werder Bremen, Haedo Valdez had his appearances limited due to competition from teammates Aílton, Angelos Charisteas and both Miroslav Klose and Ivan Klasnić, who were the Bundesliga’s top striking duo at the time.