Julio Martínez (journalist)

Julio Martínez Prádanos (Temuco, Chile, June 23, 1923 - Santiago, Chile, January 2, 2008) was a Chilean sports commentator specializing in football who had a long career in the written press, radio and television. He won the 1995 "Premio Nacional de Periodismo de Chile" (Chilean National Journalism Prize), awarded by the Chilean Ministry of Education.

Martínez died of terminal prostate cancer on January 2, 2008, after years of failing health. Important figures who attended his funeral on January 4 include Eduardo Riveros, Gloria Stanley, Alfredo Lamadrid, César Antonio Santis, Javier Miranda, Vivi Kreutzberger, Cecilia Bolocco, Martín Vargas, Marlene Ahrens, Leopoldo Vallejos, Ricardo Lagos, Soledad Alvear, Andrés Velasco, Ricardo Lagos Weber, Joaquín Lavín and Sebastián Piñera.

Tributes

Living

*1982: The football club Julio Martínez was established in Rancagua.
*1987: In the remodeling of the Estadio Santa Laura in Santiago, the press gallery is named the commentator.
*2005: A gym in the commune of Cerro Navia in Santiago is named after the commentator.

Posthumous

*January 4, 2008:
**The calle Santa Laura in Santiago is renamed calle Julio Martínez Prádanos by decision of the Municipalidad of Independencia.
**The Government of Chile proposed that the Estadio Nacional de Chile be renamed the Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos. The calle Santa Laura will also be remamed after Pradanos. [ [http://noticias.123.cl/entel123/html/Deportes_Portada/Deportes/Futbol/327518.html El Estadio Nacional ahora se llamará "Julio Martínez" - 123.cl] ]

References

External links

* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=zEp4V4OxyK0 Falleció Julio Martinez Pradanos]