Sergio Livingstone
| Sergio Livingstone | ||
 Sergio "Sapito" Livingstone in the national jersey (1943)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Sergio Livingstone Pohlhammer | |
| birthday | March 26, 1920 | |
| place of birth | Santiago , Chile | |
| date of death | September 11th 2012 | |
| Place of death | Santiago , Chile | |
| size | 183 cm | |
| position | goalkeeper | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1938-1942 | CD Universidad Católica | |
| 1943-1944 | Racing Club | 30 (0) |
| 1944-1956 | CD Universidad Católica | |
| 1957 | CSD Colo-Colo | |
| 1958-1959 | CD Universidad Católica | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1941-1954 | Chile | 52 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Sergio Roberto "Sapo" Livingstone Pohlhammer (born March 26, 1920 in Santiago de Chile ; † September 11, 2012 ibid) was a Chilean soccer goalkeeper who established himself as a journalist after his soccer career . At club level, he had successes with CD Universidad Católica in his hometown in the 1940s and 1950s . With the national team of Chile he took part in the soccer world championship in Brazil in 1950 and in six South American championships and is still the record player in the competition. He is considered the first major football star in his country.
Life
Sergio Livingstone was born in 1920 to a Scottish immigrant family. His father, John Livingstone, is considered to be one of the pioneers of football in Chile, and even the first to bring football into the country. He played for Santiago National FC .
As a teenager, Sergio Livingstone originally joined Unión Española , but rarely came to the game. In the end, Livingstone gave up football to study law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile . There he soon came into contact with their soccer team and from 1938 established himself between the posts of the combat team of the CD Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile.
In February 1941, at the age of 20, he made his debut in the Chilean national team at the South American soccer championship held in Chile, where he won the opening game against Ecuador 5-0. Chile finished third in the end and Livingstone was voted the tournament's best goalkeeper.
In 1943 he moved to the top Argentine racing club in Avellaneda , an industrial suburb of the capital Buenos Aires, for the considerable transfer fee of 280,000 pesos (then about 24,000 US dollars) . After 30 games for Racing, he returned to Católica after only one year out of sentimentality.
Sergio Livingstone, often also called El Sapo , "the frog", won the Chilean championship title twice with Universidad Católica in 1949 and 1954 . In 1955, the university club had the mishap of being relegated immediately in the year after the championship, but rose again immediately.
In 1957 he was loaned out to local competitor CSD Colo-Colo for a season. After returning to Universidad Católica, he ended his career there in 1959 at the age of 39.
By 1954 Livingstone guarded the goal of the national team a total of 52 times, making him Chile's record national player until 1963, and took part in five other South American championships with her until 1953 . In 1945 , also in Chile, Chile again achieved third place. In total, he played 34 times in the South American Championship, which is a record to this day. Another high point in his career was participating in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil , where Livingstone was behind in all three games, both in the two 2-0 defeats to England and Spain, and in the 5-2 win against the USA had to grab.
After the end of his active sports career, Livingstone developed into an important sports journalist and worked as a commentator on radio and television. From 1969 he worked at Televisión Nacional , where he became the emblematic figure of the Zoom Deportivo program , which defined Sunday noon for many Chileans from 1985 until it was discontinued in December 2011.
In 2009 a street in the Independencia district of Santiago was named after Sergio Livingstone.
Livingstone died on September 11, 2012 at the age of 92 in Santiago de Chile.
Web links
- Sergio Livingstone in the database of FIFA (English)
- Claudio Pizarro: Sergio “Sapo” Livingstone, un crack de 89 años: “Si jugara ahora, sería farandulero” September 18, 2009, The Clinic
- Jorge Guerrero Cortés: El libro no escrito de Sergio Livingstone June 4, 2010, DOREMIFAGOL
- Zoom Deportivo (video) - the first two and a half minutes of the first broadcast on March 31, 1985
- Fallció Sergio Livingstone a los 92 años , Cooperativa.cl, September 11, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Bock: Eleven things about the Copa America. 2000 miles above sea ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 11friends. Football Culture Magazine, July 4, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
- ^ Roberto Mamrud: Chile - Record International Players February 29, 2012, RSSSF
- ↑ Avenida Sergio Livingstone April 17, 2009, La Nacion
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Livingstone, Sergio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Livingstone Pohlhammer, Sergio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean soccer player and sports journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile , Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 2012 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |