The development of the Copa America and the Euro Cup It shows us that football is a sport that unites masses. Fans from all countries gather in stadiums, pubs or living rooms to enjoy the matches of their teams. These meetings are the starting point for conversations in which many people turn to data, statistics and curiosities about the so-called King of Sports, with the intention of entertaining themselves with this healthy activity.
That is why in FayerWayer We come to give you a curiosity that not many people know about. The protagonists of these stories have a bond that, when they know it, they will be surprisedJohn Lennon, iconic member of the famous Beatles band, is linked to Chilean football through a footballer born in Iquique, the legendary Jorge Robledo.
Jorge Robledo is one of the figures that make Chile a country with a broad football culture. Like Iván Zamorano or Marcelo Salas, the forward from Iquique moved the nets on the soccer fields of Europe.
George, as he was known in the Old Continent, played for the Newcastle English for five seasons. In 146 games he scored 82 goals, But the most important was the FA Cup final against Arsenal, at the legendary Wembley Stadium.
The meeting that meant the fourth FA Cup For the Magpies, the score was 1-0 in the 84th minute, thanks to a goal from Chilean Jorge Robledo. You can understand the magnitude of what this title means to Newcastle, who have only won six of these titles in their 132 years of history.
The fourth trophy that Jorge Robledo helped them win has a special story, and that is that the photograph of the goal, which appeared on the front pages of all the British newspapers at the time, was drawn by an 11-year-old John Lennon.
The little British boy saw one of the newspapers and drew all the members in the photograph, a fact that no one knew until John Lennon himself put that drawing on the cover of his only solo album, “Walls and Bridges.”
This peculiarity was noticed by the Chilean writer Néstor Flores, who while working on a book about Jorge Robledo, came across the curious episode that makes a link between the Iquique forward and the Beatles legend.