Serjio Robert Livingstone Pohlhammer (26 March 1920 – 11 September 2012), later simply known as Sergio Livingstone, was a Chilean
goalkeeper
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, who later became a well-regarded journalist. He was nicknamed "El Sapo" ("the toad") for his typical posture in the goal. From 1938 to 1959 he played primarily for
CD Universidad Católica in Santiago. With
Chile
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he took part in seven
Copa América and one
FIFA World Cup
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.
Career
Serjio (later Sergio) Livingstone's family hailed from
Scotland
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. His father , who played for
Santiago National, was a pioneer of the game in Chile and his mother, Ana Pohlhammer Caamaño, died when Sergio was 11 years old.
Livingstone originally joined
Unión Española
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in 1936, after
Luis Tirado
Luis Norberto Tirado Gordillo (born 4 April 1906 — 24 November 1964) was a Chilean footballer and manager.
Career
Born in Copiapó, Chile, he represented the Tocopilla team at the age of 14. Later, he played for Colo-Colo, Santiago National, ...
watched him in a match between
St. Ignatius College, where he studied, and English Institute of Santiago.
He abandoned football to study law at the
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (''PUC or UC Chile'') ( es, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities i ...
. Soon he acquainted himself with the university's football team, and from 1938 he began to establish himself as the goalkeeper of
CD Universidad Católica.
![Sergio Livingstone - Racing - 1943](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Sergio_Livingstone_-_Racing_-_1943.jpg)
He debuted in the
national team
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The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exa ...
at the
1941 South American Championship
The sixteenth edition of the South American Championship was held in Santiago, Chile from 2 February to 4 March.
With the purpose of celebrating the fourth centenary of Santiago's foundation by Pedro de Valdivia, Chile requested to host this t ...
which took place in Chile, winning 5–0 against
Ecuador
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. By the end of the tournament Chile ended third, and Livingstone was considered the best player of the tournament. Altogether, Livingstone played between 1941 and 1954 in 52 matches for Chile, which made him the country's record international until 1962, participating in five more South American Championships, totaling 34 matches in this competition, which remains record. He also took part in the
FIFA World Cup 1950
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in Brazil, where Chile exited after the first group phase.
At club level he spent 1943 in Argentina playing 30 matches for
Racing Club. He cut short his time in
Argentina
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for sentimental reasons and rejoined Católica in 1944, winning the national championships of 1949 and 1954. After the second title the club had the misfortune to be relegated in the season immediately thereafter, but managed to return to the first division as quickly. After a brief spell on loan in 1957 with
Colo-Colo
Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo () is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano they play in the Chilean Primera División, from which they have never been relegated. The team has pla ...
he once more returned to Universidad Católica where he finished his career in 1959.
Following his football career, he became a well-known sports journalist and television personality with
Televisión Nacional de Chile
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, where he remained until his death (more than 60 years).
Legacy
In 2009,
streetin the district of
Independencia in Santiago was named for Livingstone.
Honours
*
Championship of Chile: 1949, 1954
References
External links
*
* Claudio Pizarro
"Sergio 'Sapo' Livingstone, un crack de 89 años: "Si jugara ahora, sería farandulero" 18 September 2009, ''The Clinic''
* Jorge Guerrero Cortés:
El libro no escrito de Sergio Livingstone' 4 June 2010, DOREMIFAGOL
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1920 births
2012 deaths
Chilean people of Scottish descent
Chilean people of Austrian descent
Footballers from Santiago
Chilean footballers
Chilean expatriate footballers
Chile international footballers
Chilean Primera División players
Argentine Primera División players
Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers
Colo-Colo footballers
Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers
Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Expatriate footballers in Argentina
1950 FIFA World Cup players
Chilean television presenters
Chilean association football commentators
Televisión Nacional de Chile color commentators
Chilean sports journalists
Association football goalkeepers