George Robledo
Jorge Robledo Oliver ( born April 14, 1926 in Iquique, † April 1, 1989 in Viña del Mar) was a Chilean footballer, who spent many years of his career in England and took part with the Chilean national soccer team at the World Cup 1950.
Career
Club career
Jorge Robledo, who was born on April 14, 1926 in Iquique, capital of the Chilean region of Tarapacá, went early with his parents to England. There he began his footballing career in 1946 at Barnsley FC, having previously passed through the youth departments of the association. After three years and 109 games for the club from Barnsley in Northern England, he worked in 1948 for £ 26,500 to Newcastle United, a top club in English football. Simultaneously with him changed his two years younger brother Eduardo "Ted" Robledo, later as a Chilean national team, for the team to the national player Jackie Milburn.
In his four years with the traditional club from Newcastle upon Tyne Jorge Robledo won, which was called George, in the years 1951 and 1952, twice in a row the FA Cup. In 1951 it carried a 2-0 thanks to two goals in the final against Milburn FC Blackpool to Stanley Matthews and Stan Mortensen, and in the year with a 1-0 victory over Arsenal. Robledo posted here are six minutes to play the decisive goal. In the league it ran for Newcastle United on the other hand not so good. In the years in which George Robledo played at the club, the team was always to be found only in the midfield. In the season 1951/52, Newcastle turned Although the 98 gates best attack in the league, 33 of which were scored by Robledo - what it gereichte in honor of the First Division scorer - but in the end it was only enough to 8th place after the club in previous year, was fourth.
1953 left George Robledo along with his brother Newcastle United. Both joined in the Chilean capital Santiago the top club Colo -Colo on. In his first season at Colo -Colo won the national championship Robledo. The following year, Colo -Colo was about to defend the title, but was only second to CD Universidad Católica. In 1956, he was with Colo -Colo, now without brother Ted, who returned last year to England, with five points clear of the Santiago Wanderers again champion. 1958 left the now 32 -year-old Robledo Colo -Colo in the dispute, which meant that he was locked in 1959.
1959 for Robledo but so far a happy year. In Rancagua, where he worked as an engineer at a mine in the meantime, he met Gladys Nissim, which he still married in the same year. In 1960, he joined the local first division club CD O'Higgins, but still finished in the same year there finally his playing career. Later he moved on to Viña del Mar, where he Peter 's School for Responsible Sport has been at the Saint. he as a sports teacher at a school in. In Viña del Mar, he died on 1 April 1989 at the age of 62 years unexpectedly of a heart attack. He left behind his wife and a daughter.
National
In the Chilean national soccer team it brought George Robledo 1950-1957 on 31 missions in which eight goals get him. With the national team of his native country, he took part in Brazil at the World Cup 1950. In a team with the famous goalkeeper Sergio Livingstone, who was Chile's most-capped player for a long time, but the end for the Chileans came after the preliminary round, after losing against Spain and England and won against the United States. Robledo came here in all three games of his team to use and scored one goal, namely to the 1-0 lead against the United States in Recife. With Chile to George Robledo on two other major tournaments. In 1953 and 1955 he played two Americas Championships. At the tournament in 1953 in Peru Chile reached number four, two years later, in their own country they came to the final, but where they lost against Argentina. 1955 counted Robledo to the top scorers of the tournament, he met three times. A third Copa América, he no longer denied, since he no longer belonged to the first squad of Chile.