Arturo Vidal

Vidal is my favorite kind of midfielder: the one who does the ugly work so beautifully that it becomes the spectacle. I have always read him as the heartbeat of Chile's golden generation, the snarling engine behind those historic Copa America triumphs, and a player elite European clubs trusted precisely because he never hid from contact or responsibility. The mohawk and the King Arturo bravado are great theater, but what I admire most is the closing chapter: going home to Colo-Colo and captaining his country deep into his thirties. That is a warrior honoring his roots, and I respect it enormously.

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Name (English)

Arturo Vidal

Name (Japanese)

アルトゥーロ・ビダル

Reading

あるとぅーろ・びだる

Born

May 22, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

• Official sitehttp://www.arturovidal.cl/
• Xhttps://x.com/kingarturo23
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo%20Vidal
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%80%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192671

Tags

• Santiago Metropolitan Region
• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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