Sergio Livingstone

Serjio Robert "Sergio" Livingstone Pohlhammer (26 March 1920 – 11 September 2012) was a Chilean footballer and journalist. As a footballer, he mainly played as a goalkeeper for CD Universidad Católica. He was also capped 52 times for Chile,Roberto Mamrud. Chilean Record International Players 19 February 2010, RSSSF and played for them at seven South American Championships and the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He was nicknamed "El Sapo" ("the toad"), after his posture while in goal. He was ranked as the 9th greatest South American goalkeeper of the 20th century by the IFFHS.

Livingstone had originally joined Unión Española in 1936, after Luis Tirado watched him in a match between St. Ignatius College, where he was studying, and the English Institute of Santiago. He stopped playing football to study law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, but later joined the university's football team, where he started playing in 1938. After retiring from football in 1959, he became a sports journalist and television personality with Televisión Nacional de Chile, where he remained until his death in 2012.

Sergio's father, , played for Santiago National and was a pioneer of Chilean football. 

In 2009, a street in the district of Independencia in Santiago was named after Livingstone.

 Honours 
 Chilean Primera División: 1949, 1954

References

Other websites


 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

Category:1920 births
Category:2012 deaths
Category:Sportspeople from Santiago
Category:Chilean footballers
Category:Argentine Primera División players
Category:1950 FIFA World Cup players
Category:Chilean television presenters
Category:Association football goalkeepers