Personal information | |||
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Full name | Edward Oliver Robledo [1] | ||
Date of birth | 26 July 1928 | ||
Place of birth | Iquique, Chile | ||
Date of death | 6 December 1970 | (aged 42)||
Place of death | Died at sea | ||
Position(s) | Wing half[2] | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1947–1949 | Barnsley | 5 | (0) |
1949–1953 | Newcastle United | 37 | (0) |
1953–1957 | Colo-Colo | ||
1957 | Notts County | 2 | (0) |
International career | |||
1954–1955 | Chile | 9 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Edward "Ted" Oliver Robledo[1] (26 July 1928 – 6 December 1970) was a Chilean professional football player. He played as a left-sided defender, and is most notable for his time spent with Newcastle United.[3] He was also part of Chile's squad for the 1955 South American Championship.[4]
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.