Óscar Rendoll Gómez

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| name = Óscar Rendoll Gómez

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|8|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Punta Arenas, Chile

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| years1 = 1940

| clubs1 = Deportivo Español

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| managerclubs1 = Unión Española (youth)

| manageryears2 = 1946–1947

| managerclubs2 = Panama

| manageryears3 = 1951–1952

| managerclubs3 = Panama

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Óscar Rendoll Gómez (born 26 August 1916) was a Chilean football manager. He has been one of the five Chileans who have managed the Panama national team along with Óscar Suman (1949), Néstor Valdés (1969), Hugo Tassara (1972–1973) and Renato Panay (1976–1977).{{cite web |last1=Ampa |first1=Rebeca |last2=Schiappacasse |first2=Aldo |title=EyN: Los chilenos que futbolizaron Panamá |url=http://www.economiaynegocios.cl/noticias/noticias.asp?id=261696 |website=www.economiaynegocios.cl |publisher=El Mercurio |access-date=5 September 2022 |language=es |date=13 June 2016}}

Career

Born in Punta Arenas, Chile, Rendoll Gómez played football at amateur level in local clubs such as Deportivo Español.{{cite journal |title=Lucida presentación realizó el equipo del Club Frigorífico Bories de Natales |journal=Crónica Magallánica |date=24 December 1940 |pages=7 |url=http://www.socialismo-chileno.org/PS/cronica/Cronica_79.pdf |access-date=5 September 2022 |trans-title=Outstanding arrival made by the team of the Club Frigorífico Bories de Natales |location=Punta Arenas, Chile |language=es |format=PDF}} Then he made a coach course for three years and graduated as a football manager and next worked in the Unión Española youth system until 1946 when he moved to Panama supported by Panamanian Football Federation.{{cite web |title=El chileno que dirigió a Panamá en el primer duelo en 1952 |url=https://chile.as.com/chile/2016/06/14/futbol/1465904561_147614.html |publisher=AS Chile |access-date=5 September 2022 |language=es |date=14 June 2016}} The manager of the Panama national team in the late 1940s{{cite journal |last1=Maestre |first1=Julio E. |title=SERAN CASTIGADOS LOS FUTBOLISTAS QUE NO IBAN A LAS PRACTICAS |journal=La Hora |date=13 December 1947 |pages=11 |url=http://bdigital.binal.ac.pa/bdp/Periodicos/lahoradic%2013,%201947.pdf |access-date=5 September 2022 |trans-title=THEY WILL BE PUNISHED FOOTBALL PLAYERS NOT GOING TO PRACTICE |location=Panama City, Panama |format=PDF}} and early 1950s,{{cite web |title=PANAMÁ - Brasil 13/04/1952 |url=https://www.sambafoot.com/es/seleccion/780_panama_brasil.html |website=Sambafoot |access-date=5 September 2022 |language=es}} he's best known for winning the nation's first international title; the CCCF Championship in 1951. Previously Rendoll Gómez had led the national football team at the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games, ending the competition with a runner-up medal.{{cite web|title=¿Quién será el director técnico 38.º?|url=http://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/notas/967566-|publisher=PanamaAmerica.com|access-date=6 April 2013|language=Spanish|date=26 September 2010}}

Rendoll Gomez led Panama in the 1952 Panamerican Championship,{{cite journal |title=El equipo de Panamá verá jugar mañana al seleccionado de Chile frente a Cali |journal=La Nación |date=4 March 1952 |pages=11 |url=https://culturadigital.udp.cl/dev/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/LN_1952_03_04.pdf |access-date=5 September 2022 |trans-title=The Panama team will watch the Chilean team playing against Cali tomorrow |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es |format=PDF}} where the team faced Chile, the team of his country of birth, by first time. The result was a 6–1 loss.{{cite web |title=[16/03/1952] Chile-Panamá 6:1 |url=https://www.partidosdelaroja.com/1970/01/16031952-chile-panama-61.html |website=Partidos de La Roja |access-date=5 September 2022 |language=es}}

As a curiosity, he used to request help to trading houses and supermarkets to get a suitable food for players.{{cite web |last1=de Gracia |first1=René |title=Nuestro Fútbol |url=https://www.anpanama.com/11580-Nuestro-Futbol.note.aspx |website=www.anpanama.com |access-date=5 September 2022 |language=es |date=22 March 2022}}

In 1950, it was founded the first Panamanian referees association with Rendoll Gómez as Honorary President.{{cite web |last1=Moreno |first1=Eduardo |title=Hasta siempre "Gitano" |url=https://portal.critica.com.pa/archivo/04192006/dep24.html |website=portal.critica.com.pa |access-date=5 September 2022 |language=es |date=19 April 2006}}

Other works

At the same time he studied to become a football manager, he studied and graduated as a PE teacher at the Physical Education Institute of the University of Chile. In Panama, he was well renowned by his contributions in this area,{{cite journal |title="EL INSTITUTO DE EDUCACION FISICA OE CHILE ESTA HACIENDO ESCUELA EN LA AMERICA DEL SUR" |journal=La Nación |date=1 May 1947 |pages=21 |url=https://culturadigital.udp.cl/dev/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/LN_1947_05_01.pdf |access-date=5 September 2022 |trans-title=THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION INSTITUTE OF "UNIVERSITY OF CHILE" IS INFLUENCING IN SOUTH AMERICA |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es |format=PDF}} attending to several conferences in countries such as the Dominican Republic, Venezuela,{{cite journal |title=Consolidando ‘canales’ y profundizando la circulación de saberes y expertos: El caso del XVII Congreso Panamericano de Educación Física, Panamá 1999 |journal=Revista Contacto |date=August 2022 |pages=4–5 |url=https://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/art_revistas/pr.14589/pr.14589.pdf |access-date=5 September 2022 |trans-title=Consolidating 'channels' and deepening the circulation of knowledge and experts: The case of the XVII Pan-American Congress of Physical Education, Panama 1999 |location=Quilmes, Argentina |language=es |format=PDF}} Uruguay, among other countries in Latin America.{{cite journal |title=La FIEP en Latinoamérica |journal=FIEP Bulletin |date=2004 |pages=4 |url=http://www.fiepbulletin.net/index.php/fiepbulletin/article/viewFile/2633/5153 |access-date=5 September 2022 |trans-title=FIEP in Latin America |location=Argentina |language=es |format=PDF}}

Personal life

As a high school student, he was nicknamed Negro (Black){{cite journal |title=REMEMBRANZAS DEL 6° AÑO DE HUMANIDADES DEL AÑO 1940 |journal=Germinal |date=1 September 1965 |pages=19 |url=http://www.luisalbertobarrera.cl/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Germinal-1965.pdf |access-date=5 September 2022 |trans-title=MEMORIES OF THE 1940 6TH DEGREE OF HUMANITIES |location=Punta Arenas, Chile |language=es |format=PDF}} and was elected as Rey Feo (Ugly King/Carnaval King) of the Spring Carnival of Magallanes.