PATH OF FORMER ASTRO VIPLA And Fanaloza
F hat the left wing was the most solvent in the team Fanaloza Regional Football Championship fifties. Pedro Cañulao was fast a sink overflowing with exceptional measured projected centers and sometimes direct shot on goal from outside the area with an unusual power. For these features came to be considered one of the best forwards of the clubs in the area. Eventually gave the post to other players and he came to play in the midfield, where his burly physical presence allowed him to deploy large and respected in the area of \u200b\u200bgame creation. His name was on the press of the time, on the radio talking about him and his photographs illustrated newspapers and magazines. He was famous, a regional soccer star. Today (January 2011) has 86 years, is retired and living at home population Santa Amalia Lirquén on the slopes overlooking the factory flat glass industry where he worked for years and whose VIPLA football club - was also was his last team. Pedro
Cañulao Ranquilco born in 1924, near Temuco. As a young woman moved to Santiago, where he got a job in the pharmaceutical and chemical company in the Pacific. He liked to play ball since childhood. The club Audax Italiano discovered his exceptional skills and incorporated it into his junior team. After Badminton became interested in his game and signed him back in 1945. In a first division match in 1946 Cañulao gave the victory to his club on University Chile 1-0 with an unstoppable left-footed shot from the midfield. The Stadium ovation capped his performance, but also had expert eyes were on him. So in early 1947, international soccer leaders contacted him in Santiago Fanaloza her to come to play Penco, Regional Championship, a tournament renowned throughout the country by the significance of their clubs and their players and for the crowds in public arenas, they were always full capacity.
Badminton "Leave? Yes, agreed, but leaving his girlfriend in Santiago, no. Olga Polola Villaroel, Puerto Saavedra, but currently residing in the capital, who in 1947 was 15. The problem was that I wanted to Cañulao Fanaloza for that season. Time was against them.
so I was offered a job, a house and the club's number 11 shirt. Somehow the couple-she was just a child-managed the drawbacks of the differences by age and so the couple went to Penco. "What we liked best was that we could offer to return south and Penco liked us," Olga told us Villaroel, sitting with her husband Peter Cañulao in his living room (first picture above). "We liked the job he gave to Peter and here the area are from 1947. Never again we came back to our roots and return to Santiago. Down roots in these lands. After my husband for years Fanaloza play, Don Mendoza Rene Fierro, VIPLA leader, offered to come to us Lirquén and play in the team, "recalls Mrs Olga Villarroel. So was cannulated, become midfielder, ended his career at the club's shirt blue (VIPLA).
Although there are no electronic records of the time, most likely, the announcer told the memorable game of Badminton vs Universidad de Chile in 1946 and ended with the defeat could be the next blue:
"There is a long ball that goes from the center of the field to the left side. Controls the ball running at high speed the unstoppable Peter Cañulao. Domina Cañulao, made a feint, a player leaves in its path, changes direction and goes toward the center. Raise your head, prepares his left foot. Y! Shoot ... Goooooooooool!, Fooooood Badminton, Pedro Cañulao gives the advantage to railway equipment. Cañulao goal. Extraordinary, with a goal Badminton Cañulao University of Chile defeated a zero. "
FIELD PRODUCTION
Cañulao To locate Pedro was needed the assistance of an expert on the environment and also sports Penco active local boxing coach, former player and former basketball player, Oscar Munoz, the Chenko, who accompanied us Lirquén solicitous. Finding out with friends and contacts within minutes we find the direction of famed former soccer crack in the village of Santa Amalia. Encounter him and to have conversed with former crack was also the work of our friend Chenko. In the next picture, Oscar Muñoz check old newspapers stored in the house of Pedro Cañulao with comments and photographs of the Regional Championship.
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