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Sebastián González Football player

Sebastián Ignacio González Valdés (born 14 December 1978) is a Chilean footballer that currently plays in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano club The Strongest as striker. He began his football career at Colo-Colo of the first tier of his country, in where scored 27 goals in 77 appearances during four seasons. In June 2002, was sold for an undisclosed fee to Mexican Primera División club Atlante, believed high. In his first season with that club, the Apertura Tournament of the same year, Chamagol scored 13 goals in 19 appearances and in the following, the 2003 Clausura Tournament, he netted 16 goals in the same number of games, becoming the league's top-scorer. After a successful pass at the club of Cancún, in January 2006, González moved to UANL Tigres of the same league and country. In the next season, was loaned to Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz and the Argentine Primera División club in that moment, Olimpo de Bahía Blanca. In 2008, he signed for Liga de Ascenso of Mexican side León, in where was received by several fans in his first training of the club. In January of the next year, he returned to Colo-Colo on loan, being presented like the European style by the team's captain Arturo Sanhueza. In his third game for the club, González scored a goal in an historic 3–1 away win over Palmeiras at Parque Antártica. He joined to Cypriot First Division side APOP Kinyras FC, after an unsuccessful season in Colo-Colo, returning on mid year to Mexico for play in Atlante's filial team Potros Neza, scoring eight goals in 27 games for the Liga de Ascenso tournament. Despite of his performance, Atlante not considered to Chamagol for his lack of form according that club's coach, and he signed for the Bolivian side The Strongest. González was part of the squads of the Chilean national football team in the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney, winning the bronze medal also, and in the 2004 Copa América celebrated in Peru. He has scored six goals for his national team, being two of those officials against Paraguay and Peru.