George Robledo

George Robledo
Personnel
Surname	Jorge Robledo Oliver
birthday	April 14, 1926
place of birth	Iquique ,  Chile
date of death	April 1, 1989
Place of death	Viña del Mar ,  Chile
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1946-1949	Barnsley FC	105 (45)
1949-1953	Newcastle United	146 (82)
1953-1958	Colo-Colo	153 (84)
1960	CD O'Higgins
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1950-1957	Chile	31 0(8)
1 Only league games are given.

Jorge Robledo Oliver (born April 14, 1926 in Iquique , † April 1, 1989 in Viña del Mar ) was a Chilean football player who spent many years of his career in England and who participated in the 1950 World Cup with the Chilean national football team .

Career

Club career

Jorge Robledo, who was born on April 14, 1926 in Iquique, the capital of the Chilean region of Tarapacá , went to England with his parents at an early age. He began his professional career in 1946 at Barnsley FC after playing as an amateur at Huddersfield Town . After three years and 105 games for the club from Barnsley in the north of England , he moved to Newcastle United , a top club in English football , in 1948 for £ 26,500 . At the same time, his brother Eduardo "Ted" Robledo , who was two years his junior and later also a Chilean national player, joined the team around national player Jackie Milburn .

In his four years with the traditional club from Newcastle upon Tyne , Jorge Robledo, who was called George , won the FA Cup twice in a row in 1951 and 1952 . 1951 by a 2-0 thanks to two Milburn goals in the final against Blackpool FC for Stanley Matthews and Stan Mortensen , and the following year by a 1-0 victory over Arsenal . Robledo scored the decisive goal here six minutes before the end of the game. In the league , however, Newcastle United did not do so well. In the years in which George Robledo played at the club, the team was always only to be found in midfield. In the 1951/52 season Newcastle had the best attack in the league with 98 goals, 33 of which were scored by Robledo - which was enough to honor the First Division top scorer - but in the end it was only 8th place after the club in Last year was fourth.

In 1953 George Robledo left Newcastle United with his brother. Both joined the top club CSD Colo-Colo in the Chilean capital Santiago . Robledo won the national championship in his first season at Colo-Colo. The following year Colo-Colo was about to defend its title, but was only second behind CD Universidad Católica . In 1956 he was again champion with Colo-Colo, now without brother Ted, who returned to England the previous year, five points ahead of the Santiago Wanderers . In 1958, the now 32-year-old Robledo Colo-Colo left in a dispute, which led to his being banned in 1959.

1959 was a happy year for Robledo. In Rancagua , where he worked as an engineer at a mine, he met Gladys Nissim, whom he married that same year. In 1960 he joined the local first division club CD O'Higgins , but ended his playing career there that same year. He later moved on to Viña del Mar , where he was in charge of sports at Saint Peter's School . he worked as a physical education teacher at a school in. In Viña del Mar he died unexpectedly on April 1, 1989 at the age of 62 of a heart attack . He left behind his wife and a daughter.

National team

In the Chilean national football team , George Robledo made 31 missions between 1950 and 1957, in which he scored eight goals. With the national team of his home country, he took part in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil . In a team with the famous goalkeeper Sergio Livingstone , who was Chile's record-breaking national player for a long time, the Chileans came to an end after the preliminary round, after they had lost against Spain and England and won against the United States . Robledo was used in all three games of his team and scored one goal, namely the 1-0 lead against the USA in Recife . With Chile after George Robledo participated in two further major tournaments. In 1953 and 1955 he played two South American championships . At the 1953 tournament in Peru , Chile reached fourth place, two years later in their own country they made it to the final, where they lost to Argentina . In 1955 Robledo was one of the top scorers of the tournament, he scored three times. He did not play a third Copa America because he was no longer part of the first team in Chile.

Web links

• George Robledo in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Player biography
• Profile of Robledo
• Biography on colocolo.cl
• Juan Cassavetes: La azarosa historia de los hermanos Robledo: misterios sin resolver y lecciones de profesionalismo , Palabra de Fútbol, ​​May 31, 2006