Patricio Yáñez

At youth level, Yáñez competed in athletics, reaching 11.8 seconds in 100 metres, aged 14. As a youth football player, he was with Deportivo Alto Florida from Quilpué before joining the San Luis de Quillota youth system. 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.

Yáñez appeared 43 times for the national team, scoring five goals. 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.

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".

San Luis Copa Apertura Segunda División (1): 1980 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 Chile Copa Juan Pinto Durán (1): 1979