Julio Martínez Prádanos (

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, June 23, 1923 –

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, Chile, January 2, 2008) was a

an sports commentator specializing in football who had a long career in the written press, radio and television. He won the 1995 National Prize for Journalism, awarded by the Chilean Ministry of Education. He belongs to a generation of ever-lasting emblematic Chilean sports commentators, along with Sergio Livingstone, Pedro Carcuro,

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, Néstor Isella and Milton Millas. Martínez died of terminal prostate cancer on January 2, 2008, after years of failing health.

Tributes

Living

*1982: The football club Julio Martínez was established in

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. *1987: In the remodeling of the

Estadio Santa Laura Estadio Santa Laura is a football stadium in Independencia, Santiago, Chile. It is the home stadium of Unión Española Club Unión Española S.A.D.P. is a professional football club based in the Independencia neighborhood, commune of Sa ...

in Santiago, the press gallery is named after the journalist. *2005: A gym in the commune of Cerro Navia in Santiago is named after the commentator.

Posthumous

*January 4, 2008: **The calle Santa Laura in Santiago is renamed calle Julio Martínez Prádanos by decision of the Municipalidad of Independencia. **The Government of Chile proposed that the

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be renamed the Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos. The calle Santa Laura was also renamed after him.El Estadio Nacional ahora se llamará "Julio Martínez" - 123.cl

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Martinez Pradanos, Julio 1923 births 2008 deaths Chilean journalists Chilean association football commentators Canal 13 Chile play-by-play commentators Male journalists Chilean people of Spanish descent People from Temuco Deaths from prostate cancer Deaths from cancer in Chile 20th-century journalists