Sergio Livingstone

Sergio Livingstone
Livingstone with Chile in 1942
Personal information
Full name Serjio Roberto Livingstone Pohlhammer
Date of birth (1920-03-26)26 March 1920
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Date of death 11 September 2012(2012-09-11) (aged 92)
Place of death Santiago, Chile
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1936–1937 Unión Española
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1938–1942 Universidad Católica
1943 Racing Club 30 (0)
1944–1956 Universidad Católica
1957 Colo-Colo
1958–1959 Universidad Católica
International career
1941–1954 Chile 52 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of September 2008

Serjio Robert "Sergio" Livingstone Pohlhammer (26 March 1920 – 11 September 2012) was a Chilean footballer and journalist. As a footballer, he mainly played as a goalkeeper for CD Universidad Católica. He was also capped 52 times for Chile, and played for them at seven South American Championships and the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He was nicknamed "El Sapo" ("the toad"), after his posture while in goal. He was ranked as the 9th greatest South American goalkeeper of the 20th century by the IFFHS.

Livingstone had originally joined Unión Española in 1936, after Luis Tirado watched him in a match between St. Ignatius College, where he was studying, and the English Institute of Santiago. He stopped playing football to study law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, but later joined the university's football team, where he started playing in 1938. After retiring from football in 1959, he became a sports journalist and television personality with Televisión Nacional de Chile, where he remained until his death in 2012.

Sergio's father, John Livingstone Eves [es], played for Santiago National and was a pioneer of Chilean football.

In 2009, a street in the district of Independencia in Santiago was named after Livingstone.

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "CERTIFICADO DE NACIMIENTO" (PDF). Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación de Chile. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "PADRON ELECTORAL AUDITADO – ELECCIONES MUNICIPALES 2012 – COMUNA: VITACURA" (PDF). Servicio Electoral de Chile. 19 August 2012. p. 580. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  3. ↑ Radnic, F., Marietta (26 May 2011). "Nada me aburré, nunca me canso". El Mercurio. Archived from the original on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  4. ↑ Roberto Mamrud. Chilean Record International Players 19 February 2010, RSSSF
  5. 1 2 "Sergio Livingstone (1920-2012)". memoriachilena.gob.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  6. ↑ S.A.P., El Mercurio (2012-09-11). "Sergio Livingstone: El ex futbolista que llegó a lo más alto de la TV y el periodismo deportivo | Emol.com". Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-08-31.

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