:Ramón Unzaga

{{Short description|Spanish-born Chilean footballer (1892–1923)}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Ramón Unzaga

| image = Ramón Unzaga Asla - With medals.jpg

| caption = Unzaga with medals

| fullname = Ramón Ignacio Unzaga Asla

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|7|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

| height =

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1923|8|31|1892|7|18|df=yes}}

| death_place = Cabrero, Chile

| position = Left-half

| years1 = 1912–1913 | clubs1 = Minas Lota

| years2 = 1914–1923 | clubs2 = Estrella del Mar

| nationalyears1 = 1916–1920

| nationalteam1 = Chile

| nationalcaps1 = 8

| nationalgoals1 = 0

}}

Ramón Ignacio Unzaga Asla (18 July 1892 – 31 August 1923) was a footballer who played as a left-half.{{cite web |title=Ramón Unzaga |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/67020/Ramon_Unzaga.html |website=National Football Teams |access-date=17 February 2021}} Born in Spain, he appeared for the Chile national team at international level.

Life

Born in Bilbao, Spain, he emigrated to Talcahuano, Chile, in 1906 at 14 years of age, with his parents. In 1912 the twenty-year-old Unzaga impressed the Talcahuano sports delegation with his football ability, so they signed him to the football club. He began his career and adopted the Chilean nationality. Unzaga is attributed as the first person to create the bicycle kick, devising the move playing for his club team in 1914 in El Morro stadium of Talcahuano. The kick is labeled the chorera in honor of the team he played for that was called the escuela chorera (chorera school) at the time. In the Copa America of 1916 and 1920 playing for the Chile national team, Unzaga repeated the kick on various occasions in which the Argentine press labels the kick as la chilena.{{cite web|url=http://www.euskonews.com/0332zbk/kosmo33201.html |title=::: Euskonews & Media ::: Kosmopolita ::: La "chilena" es cosa de vascos |publisher=Euskonews.com |date= 27 January 2006|access-date=6 November 2008}}

Unzaga received many offers to play with international football clubs but always chose to stay with Club Atlético y de Fútbol Estrella de Mar of Talcahuano. On 15 May 2014, the municipality of Talcahuano inaugurated a monument of Ramon Unzaga in his honor.{{cite web |url=http://papeldigital.info/lahora/2014/05/07/01/paginas/024.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=31 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140601015449/http://papeldigital.info/lahora/2014/05/07/01/paginas/024.pdf |archive-date=1 June 2014 }}

Since that Unzaga's move was born in the El Morro Stadium,{{cite web|url = http://diario.elmercurio.cl/detalle/index.asp?id={f4ebea2f-b492-4745-a336-cd19b8ae4fcd} |title=Los ilustres nombres de los estadios chilenos |publisher=emol.cl |date= 2 January 2010|access-date=2 January 2010}} is in its honor that the stadium was renamed after him.

References

External links

[https://www.partidosdelaroja.com/1970/01/ramon-unzaga.html Ramón Unzaga] at PartidosdeLaRoja.com {{inlang|es}}
[https://www.nuevaestrelladelmar.com/historia-y-biografia-de-ramon-unzaga-a-/ Ramón Unzaga] at NuevaEstrelladelMar.com {{inlang|es}}

Category:1892 births

Category:1923 deaths

Category:Footballers from Bilbao

Category:Spanish emigrants to Chile

Category:Spanish expatriates in Chile

Category:Spanish men's footballers

Category:Naturalized citizens of Chile

Category:Chilean men's footballers

Category:Chilean people of Basque descent

Category:Chile men's international footballers

Category:Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Chile

Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Chile

Category:Men's association football midfielders