Franklin Lobos
{{Short description|Chilean footballer and miner (born 1957)}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Franklin Lobos
| image = Mina San José - Franklin Lobos Rescued - Gobierno de Chile.jpg
| image_size = 250
| caption = Lobos following his rescue from the 2010 Copiapó mining accident
| fullname = Franklin Erasmo Lobos Ramírez
| height =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|6|2}}
| birth_place = Copiapó, Chile
| position = Midfielder
| years1 = 1980–1981 | caps1 = | goals1 = | clubs1 = Regional Atacama
| years2 = 1982 | caps2 = | goals2 = | clubs2 = Deportes Antofagasta
| years3 = 1983–1985 | caps3 = | goals3 = | clubs3 = Cobresal
| years4 = 1986–1987 | caps4 = | goals4 = | clubs4 = Deportes Antofagasta
| years5 = 1988–1989 | caps5 = | goals5 = | clubs5 = Cobresal
| years6 = 1990–1991 | caps6 = | goals6 = | clubs6 = La Serena
| years7 = 1992 | caps7 = | goals7 = | clubs7 = Santiago Wanderers
| years8 = 1993 | caps8 = | goals8 = | clubs8 = Municipal Iquique
| years9 = 1994 | caps9 = | goals9 = | clubs9 = Unión La Calera
| years10 = 1995 | caps10 = | goals10 = | clubs10 = Regional Atacama
| nationalyears1 = | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = | nationalteam1 = Chile Olympic
}}
{{family name hatnote|Lobos|Ramírez|lang=Spanish}}
Franklin Erasmo Lobos Ramírez (born June 2, 1957 in Copiapó) is a retired Chilean footballer. Lobos debuted in 1980 for Regional Atacama, and retired in 1995, playing for the same club he started his career with. He was nicknamed El Mortero Mágico (The Magic Mortar).{{cite web|author=Jonathan Franklin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/07/trapped-chilean-miners |title=Trapped Chilean miners: How did a former footballing hero come to be one of the 33?|work=The Guardian |date=September 7, 2010|accessdate=September 8, 2010}} He eventually became a miner and was one of the miners trapped underground for two months in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. On October 13, 2010, Lobos was the 27th of 33 miners to be rescued.
Football career
=Club=
Lobos made his professional debut for Chilean Second Division team Regional Atacama in 1980, scoring in his first match for the club.{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/espn/eticket/story?page=101008/Chile&redirected=true|title=Above and Beyond|last=Thompson|first=Wright|work=Outside the Lines|publisher=ESPN|access-date=14 October 2010}} After leaving Regional Atacama in 1981, Lobos played a year with Deportes Antofagasta before moving to Cobresal in 1983.
In what would be the first of his two stints with Cobresal, Lobos tasted success in his first year as the team representing the small mining town of El Salvador won the 1983 Second Division title. In the national championship of Chile of 1984, Cobresal was runner-up. Lobos returned to Deportes Antofagasta for 1986 and 1987. In 1988, he rejoined Cobresal where he played until 1989.
Until leaving high level football in 1995, Lobos played for a number of clubs including La Serena, Santiago Wanderers, Municipal Iquique and Unión La Calera.{{cite news
|url=http://www.noticiasweb.cl/2010/08/23/deportes/39750
|title=Manuel Rodríguez, ex entrenador de Cobresal: "Franklin Lobos es pura risa y se metió a la mina para mantener a su familia"
|newspaper=Noticias Web
|date=23 August 2010
|accessdate=23 August 2010
|quote=Defendió también a Unión La Calera, Iquique, Wanderers, Copiapó y Antofagasta, además de Cobresal
}}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
He was known for his powerful free kicks.{{cite web|url=http://www.fifpro.org/news/news_details/391|title=Chilean international is among the surviving miners|date=August 26, 2010|work=FIFPro News|publisher=FIFPro|accessdate=October 13, 2010}}
=International=
Lobos represented Chile in the CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament, a qualifying tournament for the 1984 Olympic Games.{{cite web|url=http://www.canaltrans.com/deportes/futbol1/historias/jugador-minero-chileno.html|title=Bajo la tierra - Treinta Dos Mineros Chilenos y un Crack|last=Ivan|first=Pablo|publisher=Canaltrans.com|language=Spanish|accessdate=14 October 2010}}
Honours
- Segunda División: 1983 with Cobresal
After football
After his sporting career ended Lobos became a taxi-driver and, in 2005, a miner.{{cite web|url=http://www.sofoot.com/lobos-le-mineur-footballeur-132637-article.html|title=Lobos, le mineur footballeur|date=October 13, 2010|work=SoFoot.com|language=French|accessdate=October 13, 2010}} He worked as a truck driver in the Copiapó mine, where in August 2010, he was one of the 33 miners trapped in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident.[http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/former-player-is-among-33-stranded-miners/?ref=soccer Former Player Is Among 33 Stranded Miners] NY Times, August 27, 2010{{cite web |url=http://www.terra.cl/deportes/index.cfm?accion=futbolnacional&id_reg=1473439 |title=Ex futbolista se encuentra entre los mineros atrapados en Copiapó |publisher=Terra.cl |date=August 6, 2010 |accessdate=August 8, 2010 |archive-date=September 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924085633/http://www.terra.cl/deportes/index.cfm?accion=futbolnacional |url-status=dead }} He was the 27th miner to be rescued on October 13[http://www.peoplestar.co.uk/index.html?celebs=6 « 2010 Copiapó mining rescue »], peoplestar.co.uk, Retrieved on 2010-10-13.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/chile/8057102/Chile-miners-rescue-profiles-of-the-33-men.html|title=Chile miners rescue: profiles of the 33 men|last=Allen|first=Nick|date=12 October 2010|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=13 October 2010}} and thus holds the record for the seventh longest time ever being trapped underground. Guinness World Records was asked by the rescue team for all the miners, including Lobos, to be honored with the record.{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101014/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_mine_collapse|title=Chile miners start new lives, adjust to freedom|last=Warren|first=Michael|date=14 October 2010|work=Yahoo!|accessdate=14 October 2010}}
He has two daughters.
References
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Category:Chilean men's footballers
Category:Footballers from Atacama Region
Category:C.D. Cobresal footballers
Category:C.D. Antofagasta footballers
Category:Santiago Wanderers footballers
Category:Unión La Calera footballers
Category:Deportes La Serena footballers
Category:C.D. Regional Atacama footballers
Category:2010 Copiapó mining accident