David Arellano

David Alfonso Arellano Mayorga ( born July 29, 1902 in Santiago, † May 3, 1927 in Valladolid, Spain) was a Chilean football player. He was said to be 1927, the inventor of the overhead kick. With the Chilean national team, he played six games.

Life

David Arellano was born on 29 July 1902. He was interested in, along with his brothers Francisco and Alberto, early for sports and especially football. During his studies at the University of Chile, he was strongly committed to the football, trying to make football popular. He tried to found a football club, but was disbanded after a relatively short time. When he was in the fourth year of study, he was discovered by Enrique Abello, who was looking for the Chilean football club Club Deportivo Magallanes for young players.

Career

David Arellano made ​​his debut in 1919 at the age of 17 in the jersey of Magallanes. At the same time, he also played on the team at his university and showed despite his small stature enormous energy. In the years 1920 and 1921, he won the Copa República Magallanes of the Asociación de Football de Santiago - in the absence of a national championship before 1933, the highest available titles. In 1924 he played for the first time in the Chilean national team.

In 1925 he was one of the ringleaders of a spin-off of Magallanes led to the establishment of CSD Colo -Colo on April 19, 1925. Arellano was the first captain and won with the club the league Metropolitana. With the Chilean National Team, he played a total of six matches in which he scored seven goals. He belonged to the Chilean squad to South America championships in 1924 and 1926, where he was team captain.

During an international tour of Colo- Colo, led by America and Europe Arellano scored in the game against Spain a goal bicycle kick. Whether he was thus the inventor of this trick is not documented, but it is certain that it fulfills the Spanish reporter and opponent surprised that christened this trick la chilena. A few days after this game came Arellano in Valladolid with a player from Real Unión Deportiva together, seriously injuring himself. But the well-known as a fighter players vehemently refused to leave the field and played, despite a ( as it turned out) peritoneal injury further. A few hours after the game, he fell into a coma and died on 3 May 1927 his injury.

Honor

• The team of his club Colo Colo bears in memory of his first football idol a black stripe on their jersey
• In 1989, the stadium Colo Colo Santiago was opened and named after him
• In the hymn of his club Colo Colo he is mentioned as the only player