Ramón Unzaga

Ramón Unzaga Asla (born 1894 in Bilbao, Spain) is a Spanish Chilean football player. Unzaga with his parents emigrated to Talcahuano, Chile in 1906 at 12 years of age. In 1912 the eighteen year old Unzaga impresses the Talcahuano sports delegation with his football ability that they sign him with the football club. He begins his career and adopts the Chilean nationality. Ramon 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 Chilean national team, Unzaga repeats the kick on various occasions in which the Argentine press labels the kick as "la chilena". [http://www.euskonews.com/0332zbk/kosmo33201.html]

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. Presently, the municipality of Talcahuano are planning to erect a monument of Ramon Unzaga in his honor. [http://es.eurosport.yahoo.com/05092008/21/levantaran-monumento-homenaje-ramon-unzaga-vasco-creador-chilena.html]