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Patricio Yáñez
	Yáñez in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Patricio Nazario Yáñez Candia
Date of birth	January 20, 1961 (age 63)
Place of birth	Valparaíso, Chile
Position(s)	Forward, winger
Youth career
	San Luis Quillota
Senior career*
Years	Team
1977–1982	San Luis
1982–1986	Real Valladolid
1985–1986	→ Real Zaragoza (loan)
1987–1989	Real Betis
1990	Universidad de Chile
1991–1995	Colo-Colo
International career‡
1979–1994	Chile
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of August 28, 2007; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of August 28, 2007

Patricio Nazario Yáñez Candia (born January 20, 1961) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Yáñez began his career in 1977 with San Luis and won the Copa Apertura Segunda División and Chilean Segunda División in 1980. He moved to Spain to play for Real Valladolid, and won the Copa de la Liga in 1984. For the 1985–86 season, he went on loan to Real Zaragoza, before playing for Real Betis. In 1990, he returned to Chile, briefly playing for Universidad de Chile, before ending his career with Colo-Colo. During his time there, he won the Chilean Primera División twice and the Copa Chile, Copa Libertadores and Recopa Sudamericana once.

International career

Yáñez appeared 43 times for the national team, scoring five goals.^[1] He made his debut on June 13, 1979, in a friendly against Ecuador, replacing Jorge Neumann, and had his last match on November 16, 1994, against Argentina. He played for his native country in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.^[2]

El Pato Yáñez incident

In 1989, during the infamous incident involving the goalkeeper Roberto Rojas in a match against Brazil, Yáñez, under the frustration of believing his team was subject to unfairness, performed a gesture to the Brazilian fans by holding his genitals with both of his hands and his middle body slightly bent towards the front in an act of sexual intercourse. The moment was captured by Chilean national television, and as years have passed, the offensive gesture, when repeated or remembered, is known as "Pato Yáñez".

Post retirement

Following his retirement from football, Yáñez has mainly worked in TV and radio media as a football commentator. He has worked for the Chilean TV channels TVN, Canal 13, Chilevisión, Telecanal and Vive! Deportes^[es],^[3] in addition to the Canal del Fútbol from 2014 to 2019.^[4] Also, he has worked for the international channels Fox Sports Chile, DirecTV Sports^[es]^[5] and ESPN Chile.^[6] In radio media he has worked for Radio Agricultura and Radio Bío-Bío.^[3]

Honours

Club

San Luis

Copa Apertura Segunda División (1): 1980^[es]
Chilean Segunda División (1): 1980

Real Valladolid

Copa de la Liga (1): 1984

Colo-Colo

Chilean Primera División (2): 1991, 1993
Copa Chile (1): 1994
Copa Libertadores (1): 1991
Recopa Sudamericana (1): 1992

International

Chile^[7]

Copa Juan Pinto Durán^[es] (1): 1979^[es]

References

^ Mamrud, Roberto (February 19, 2010). "Chile - Record International Players". RSSSF. Archived from the original on March 17, 2009.
^ Patricio Yáñez – FIFA competition record (archived)
^ ^a ^b "Patricio Yáñez comentará para CHV" (in Spanish). La Tercera. May 30, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
^ "Pato Yáñez es despedido de CDF y llega como nueva carta a Fox Sports" (in Spanish). La Cuarta. January 31, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
^ @giraltpablo (June 26, 2016). "Arrancamos la previa en @DIRECTVSports" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved July 29, 2022 – via Twitter.
^ Napoli, Walter (January 17, 2020). "ESPN Radio hace su estreno en Chile". ESPN Press Room (in Spanish). ESPN. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
^ "Patricio Yáñez". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved July 29, 2022.