He was born in Maracay, Venezuela, to Chilean parents Luis Valdivia and Elizabeth Toro. His father worked as a corresponsal at LAN airlines since 1974, the reason which Jorge was born at the Caribbean country in 1983.In 1985, the Valdivia family returned his homeland and moved to the capital Santiago, settling in the commune of La Florida.Noteworthy, it was revealed that he was interested on baseball during his few years at Venezuela, once in Chile, Valdivia began to develop a taste for football. In 1993, Valdivia joined the football academy of Colo-Colo. He was promoted to first-adult team aged nineteen, but he didn’t play during his promotion because he decided to left the club after being demotivated by starting lineup players like captain Marcelo Espina due to his misbehavior, so was l