Jorge "Mágico" González, a forgotten star
Jorge Alberto "magician" González Barillas, better known as Mágico González is a former soccer player born in San Salvador, El Salvador. Idol in the Cadiz of Spain, he played with Diego Maradona and even was a taxi driver in his native country after his retirement from professional football.
His nickname comes from a match between ANTEL and Club Deportivo Águila, which ended 3-1 in favor of Gonzalez. After his performance, the sports commentator Rosalío Hernández Colorado baptized him like "the magician".
Jorge González played for the U-20 national team in the qualifying rounds for the first FIFA Youth World Cup in Tunisia in 1977. Then with the Under-21 team in 1977 he won the Central American championship in San Salvador, where he converted 5 goals .
Later, and with the greater selection, disputed the World-wide one of Spain 1982, its only world-wide one. In it, Jorge left flashes of his class despite the thrashing suffered by the Salvadoran team against Hungary where they lost by 10 to 1, the defeat against Argentina by 2-0 and Belgium by 1-0.
Despite three defeats at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, the magician left a very good image of his football. Atletico Madrid, Cádiz, Aurora F.C., Communications, Los Angeles Aztecas, Club Universitario de Peru and Paris St. Germain, will be interested in your services. The Gallic team suffered the informality of Gonzalez when they were about to close their signing when Jorge, arguing that it was too much commitment, decided not to appear at the meeting.
In the end, won the bid for the recruitment Andalusian team, Cadiz, with the hand of his technical secretary, Camilo Liz. The signing was set at 7 million pesetas for the first year and, if you want to retain it, you should pay 12 million more the following year. The total paid to the FAS was the equivalent of $ 130,000, of which the player barely received 6,000.
His debut with Cadiz came in a friendly against Trebujena C.F in Trebujena (Cádiz) in 1982, while his official debut was on September 11, 1982, in a Cádiz CF-Murcia that finished 1-3.
Later, and with the greater selection, disputed the World-wide one of Spain 1982, its only world-wide one. In it, Jorge left flashes of his class despite the thrashing suffered by the Salvadoran team against Hungary where they lost by 10 to 1, the defeat against Argentina by 2-0 and Belgium by 1-0.
Despite three defeats at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, the magician left a very good image of his football. Atletico Madrid, Cádiz, Aurora F.C., Communications, Los Angeles Aztecas, Club Universitario de Peru and Paris St. Germain, will be interested in your services. The Gallic team suffered the informality of Gonzalez when they were about to close their signing when Jorge, arguing that it was too much commitment, decided not to appear at the meeting.
In the end, won the bid for the recruitment Andalusian team, Cadiz, with the hand of his technical secretary, Camilo Liz. The signing was set at 7 million pesetas for the first year and, if you want to retain it, you should pay 12 million more the following year. The total paid to the FAS was the equivalent of $ 130,000, of which the player barely received 6,000.
His debut with Cadiz came in a friendly against Trebujena C.F in Trebujena (Cádiz) in 1982, while his official debut was on September 11, 1982, in a Cádiz CF-Murcia that finished 1-3.
In Cádiz, the Magician soon won the Spanish fans with his game and his spectacular goals, and in four years he was allowed numerous indisciplines. Jorge was in the habit of sleeping too much, going out at night consecutively and having strange reactions, isolated from sports habits; his fame of party was extended, but the sports leaders and the fans in general did not make greater stir by the good results in the field of game.
He reached such extremes as taking his old friends and Salvadoran leaders to try to reason him about their behavior, as well as assigned a club employee to wake him up in the morning to attend training; not to mention the successive and high fines imposed by the club.
Penalties such as non-title were imposed on parties after their party that reached the wee hours of the morning, which meant that the fans of Estadio Ramon de Carranza protested insistently as he had become the idol of the club's fans.
One of the most important words that the Magician once said, a phrase that clearly described what it was for football:
"I recognize that I am not a saint, that I like the night and that the desire of revelry is not taken away from me or my mother. I know that I am an irresponsible and a bad professional, and may be wasting the opportunity of my life. I know, but I have some nonsense in the coconut: I do not like to take football like a job. If I did, it would not be me. I just play for fun".
For many the best party of the magician in the club Cadiz was under conditions derived from his indiscipline. It was a semifinal of the Ramón de Carranza Trophy, which faced Barcelona and the host team; Jorge did not appear in time to the party and could not enter the starting lineup, being incorporated in half time when the score was 3-0 favorable to the Catalans. In that match, scored two goals and gave two assists for the Andalusian team to gain the pass to the final with a score of 4-3.
After the descent of Cadiz to Second Division in the season 1983/84, Paris Saint Germain and Fiorentina were interested by Jorge, but he decided to stay in the Spanish club; Despite this, in 1984 he toured with Barça for the United States alongside Diego Armando Maradona, although Barça did not hire him, possibly because of the incident at a Californian hotel, when the fire alarm was activated and Jorge González was the unique in staying in the room with a girl.
In January of the season 1984/85 and after his nocturnal revelries and disagreements with Benito Joanet, its trainer, was made its transfer to Real Valladolid. His new club made a close mark on his private life, so Jorge felt harassed and preferred to return to Cadiz in the 1987/88 season, but not before wandering aimlessly across several countries in America. The contract sought to ensure that the club would have a player compliant to the rules, so he was re contracted under conditions such as the payment of $ 700 per game played.
After an attempt by the Italian Atalanta to sign him, Jorge Gonzalez decided to stay in the Spanish club until June 6, 1991, retiring after a year where he barely played, depressed by the event of July 1989, where Maria del Carmen Coca, a young Gaditana, 22, denounced Gonzalez for attempted rape; the player defended himself and ended up getting a good court order by compensation of 4,000 pesetas, although he did not return to training and to play in the same conditions.
After the descent of Cadiz to Second Division in the season 1983/84, Paris Saint Germain and Fiorentina were interested by Jorge, but he decided to stay in the Spanish club; Despite this, in 1984 he toured with Barça for the United States alongside Diego Armando Maradona, although Barça did not hire him, possibly because of the incident at a Californian hotel, when the fire alarm was activated and Jorge González was the unique in staying in the room with a girl.
In January of the season 1984/85 and after his nocturnal revelries and disagreements with Benito Joanet, its trainer, was made its transfer to Real Valladolid. His new club made a close mark on his private life, so Jorge felt harassed and preferred to return to Cadiz in the 1987/88 season, but not before wandering aimlessly across several countries in America. The contract sought to ensure that the club would have a player compliant to the rules, so he was re contracted under conditions such as the payment of $ 700 per game played.
After an attempt by the Italian Atalanta to sign him, Jorge Gonzalez decided to stay in the Spanish club until June 6, 1991, retiring after a year where he barely played, depressed by the event of July 1989, where Maria del Carmen Coca, a young Gaditana, 22, denounced Gonzalez for attempted rape; the player defended himself and ended up getting a good court order by compensation of 4,000 pesetas, although he did not return to training and to play in the same conditions.
In 1991 he returned to El Salvador to sign for the FAS Sports Club, where he played until his retirement in 2000 at the age of 42. In that year, he was last summoned to the national team.
Following his retirement as an active footballer, he continued to be involved in the sport as Houston Dynamo second baseman in Major League Soccer. In addition, he worked as a taxi driver in his spare time. In November 2011, he was incorporated as a technical assistant for the Salvadoran national team at the invitation of technical director Rubén Israel, just at the close of the second round of the CONCACAF qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
He was named by the IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics) as the best Salvadoran footballer in history, and on November 12, 2013 he entered the Football Hall of Fame of the city of Pachuca, Mexico.
The Magic Gonzalez, the one that Diego Armando Maradona once recognized as "one of the ten best players I've seen in the world without any doubt", today is almost forgotten by the football world, a world that gave everything and He enjoyed it in his own way.
Following his retirement as an active footballer, he continued to be involved in the sport as Houston Dynamo second baseman in Major League Soccer. In addition, he worked as a taxi driver in his spare time. In November 2011, he was incorporated as a technical assistant for the Salvadoran national team at the invitation of technical director Rubén Israel, just at the close of the second round of the CONCACAF qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
He was named by the IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics) as the best Salvadoran footballer in history, and on November 12, 2013 he entered the Football Hall of Fame of the city of Pachuca, Mexico.
The Magic Gonzalez, the one that Diego Armando Maradona once recognized as "one of the ten best players I've seen in the world without any doubt", today is almost forgotten by the football world, a world that gave everything and He enjoyed it in his own way.
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