Julio Martínez (journalist)
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Julio Martínez Prádanos (
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, June 23, 1923 –
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, Chile, January 2, 2008) was a
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an
sports commentator In Broadcasting of sports events, sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as a sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real time (media), real-time live commentary of a game or event, traditionally delivered in the present t ...
specializing in
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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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and Milton Millas. Martínez died of terminal
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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 in Santiago, the press gallery is named after the journalist. *2005: A gym in the commune of
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in Santiago is named after the commentator.


Posthumous

*January 4, 2008: **Through his life, Martínez was an avid supporter of
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. After his death, Santa Laura street, where the club's stadium is placed, was renamed 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 association football commentators Canal 13 Chile play-by-play commentators Chilean male journalists Chilean people of Spanish descent People from Temuco Deaths from prostate cancer in Chile 20th-century Chilean journalists