David Arellano

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David Arellano

David Alfonso Arellano Mayorga (born July 29, 1902 in Santiago , † May 3, 1927 in Valladolid , Spain ) was a Chilean football player. He is said to have been the inventor of the fallback in 1927 . He played six games with the Chilean national team .

Life

David Arellano was born on July 29, 1902. Together with his brothers Francisco and Alberto, he became interested in sports and especially football from an early age. During his studies at the University of Chile, he was heavily involved in football and tried to popularize football. He tried to found a football club, but it was dissolved again after a relatively short time. When he was in his fourth year of study, he was discovered by Enrique Abello, who was looking for young players for the Chilean football club Club Deportivo Magallanes .

Career

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

In 1925 he was one of the ringleaders in a split from Magallanes that led to the founding of CSD Colo-Colo on April 19, 1925 . Arellano was their first captain and won the Liga Metropolitana with the club . With the Chilean national team , he played a total of six internationals in which he scored seven goals. He was part of the Chilean squad for the South American Championships of 1924 and 1926 , where he was captain.

During an international trip by Colo-Colo to America and Europe, Arellano scored a goal with an overhead kick in the game against Spain . It has not been proven whether he was the inventor of this trick, but what is certain is that he surprised the Spanish reporters and opponents who named this trick la chilena . A few days after that game, Arellano collided with a Real Unión Deportiva player in Valladolid , where he was seriously injured. But the player, known as a fighter, vehemently refused to leave the field and continued to play despite what it turned out to be a peritoneal injury. A few hours after the game he fell into a coma and died of his injury on May 3, 1927.

honor

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

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ http://www.jugend.igmetall.de/content.kulturama/content.kulturama.2/content.schwarzefbstars/glossar.schwarzefbstars.5/index.html
personal data
SURNAME Arellano, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arellano Mayorga, David Alfonso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago , Chile
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1927
Place of death Valladolid , Spain