Esteban Andrés Valencia Bascuñán (born 8 January 1972) is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.
[1] Abroad he played for Colón in Argentina and Persegi Bali in Indonesia at the end of his career, where he faced other Chilean players such as Francisco Rotunno.
[2] Nicknamed "Huevito", Valencia obtained a total number of 48 caps for the Chile national football team, scoring three goals between 1994 and 2001.
[3][4] Following his return from Indonesia in 2008, he represented the Chile beach soccer team in the South American Championship, alongside retired professional footballers such as Rodrigo Cuevas, Rodrigo Sanhueza, Jorge Torres [es] and Carlos Medina, with Miguel Ángel Gamboa as coach.
[5] After working in the Universidad de Chile youth system, in 2021 he took the challenge of managing the first team as a caretaker after Rafael Dudamel was released.