Sergio Livingstone
Sergio " Sapito " Livingstone in the national jersey (1943 )
Sergio Roberto " Sapo " Livingstone Pohlhammer ( born March 26, 1920 in Santiago de Chile, † September 11, 2012 ) was a Chilean football goalkeeper who established himself as a journalist after his football career. At club level he had in the 1940s and 1950s successes with CD Universidad Católica in his hometown. With the national team of Chile he took part, among others, at the Football World Cup 1950 in Brazil and South America to six championships and is still the record player of the competition. He is considered the first great footballer in his country.
Life
Sergio Livingstone was born in 1920 as the son of a Scottish immigrant family. His father John Livingstone is one of the pioneers of football in Chile, even as the first to bring a soccer ball into the country. He played at the Santiago National FC.
As a teenager Sergio Livingstone originally joined to Unión Española, there was but little to the game. Finally, Livingstone gave the football on only once to right to study at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. There he soon came into contact with the football team and established himself as of 1938 between the posts of the first team of the CD Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile.
In February 1941, he still made his debut as a 20 - year-old in the Chilean national team at the discharged in Chile South American football Championship and won with her their opening match against Ecuador 5-0. Chile was at the end of third parties and Livingstone was voted the best goalkeeper of the tournament.
In 1943 he moved to the considerable transfer fee of 280,000 pesos (then about $ 24,000 ) to the Argentine top club Racing Club in Avellaneda, an industrial suburb of the capital Buenos Aires. But after 30 games for racing, he returned after only one year of sentimentality to Católica.
Sergio Livingstone, often El Sapo, " the frog ", called, won with Universidad Católica in the years 1949 and 1954 twice the Chilean championship. 1955 it succeeded the University Club the misfortune to descend immediately in the year after the championship, but rose by return again.
In 1957, he was loaned for one season to the local competitors CSD Colo -Colo. After his return to Universidad Católica he finished there in 1959 at the age of 39 years his career.
By 1954, Livingstone was careful a total of 52 times the gate of the national team, which he was until 1963 most-capped player in Chile, and took with her to 1953 participated in five other South American Championships. 1945, as in Chile, Chile reached this again a third. Overall, he played 34 times in the South American Championship, which is a record to this day. Another career highlight was participating in the World Cup 1950 in Brazil, where Livingstone in all three games, both in the two 0-2 defeats against England and Spain, as well as in a 5-2 victory against the United States, behind had access.
After the end of his active sports career Livingstone became an important sports journalist and worked as a commentator on radio and television. From 1969 he was employed by Televisión Nacional and was there to emblematic figure of the Zoom Deportivo program defined from 1985 until his recruitment in December 2011 for many Chileans the Sunday lunch.
In 2009, a street in the district of Independencia Santiago was named after Sergio Livingstone.
On September 11, 2012 Livingstone died at the age of 92 years in Santiago de Chile.