Leonardo Iván Véliz Díaz (born September 3, 1945) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a left winger for Everton, O'Higgins, Unión Española and Colo-Colo of Chile and in the Chile national team[1] in the 1974 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

[4] From 1998 to 2000 he worked for the Sporting CP youth system, where he coincided with players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Ricardo Quaresma and Fábio Paím.

[6] His son, Daniel Sebastián Véliz,[7] represented Chile at under-20 level in the 1992 South American Championship.

In 2009, he was a candidate for deputy, supported by for Nueva Mayoría para Chile [es].

In 2010, he switched to the other political hand after supporting Sebastián Piñera in his candidacy for President of Chile.