Personal information | |||
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Full name | George Oliver Robledo [1] | ||
Date of birth | 14 April 1926 | ||
Place of birth | Iquique, Chile | ||
Date of death | 1 April 1989 | (aged 62)||
Place of death | Viña del Mar, Chile | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Inside-forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1946–1949 | Barnsley | 105 | (45) |
1949–1953 | Newcastle United | 146 | (82) |
1953–1958 | Colo-Colo | 153 | (84) |
1959–1960 | O'Higgins | 21 | (6) |
Total | 425 | (217) | |
International career | |||
1950–1957 | Chile | 31 | (8) |
Managerial career | |||
1955 | Colo-Colo | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
George "Jorge" Oliver Robledo[1] (14 April 1926 – 1 April 1989) was a Chilean professional footballer. He played as a striker, and is most notable for his time spent with Newcastle United. He was the first non-British-registered foreign player to become top scorer in England.
In the records of Chilean football they are listed as 'Jorge' and 'Eduardo', leading to the assumption that their names were anglicised after their arrival in Yorkshire. Not so, Walter [Robledo] says. They were indeed baptised in Chile, but by a Presbyterian minister who recorded their names as George Oliver Robledo and Edward Oliver Robledo.