Julio Dely Valdés: “When I Headed to Panama, a Player Was Not Going to Train and the Next Day Appeared as if nothing.”

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“I could have been a better player, no doubt,” confesses Julio César Dely Valdés (59 years old), the former Panamanian leader of Oviedo, Malaga and PSG, who these days is a television commentator of the World Cup. Since his retirement in 2006, his life has been, above all, training. “I like to teach. When I say this, we think of the little ones, but in my country we are not professionals. The player also has to learn,” says Dely Valdés, today at…