Magic González
Jorge Alberto González Barillas , known as Magic González (n. San Salvador, El Salvador, March 13, 1958), is a former Salvadoran soccer player, considered by the Iffhs as the best in the history of his country and the best Central American player of the twentieth century.
He retired in El Salvador at forty -two years of age at the Fas 2000 Sports Club. On November 12, 2013, he entered the Football Hall of Football of the city of Pachuca, Mexico.
Family
Jorge González was born in San Salvador, his parents are Óscar González and Victoria Barillas. He is the youngest of eight brothers, including Mauricio Ernesto González. He contracted nuptials with Ana María Ruano, daughter of the footballer Alfredo Ruano, with whom he had a son, Rodrigo González. Rodrigo played at Atlético Marte. In addition, he had other couples; With one of them he had two children in Spain and, with another, a daughter in the United States.
TRAJECTORY
Jorge González began his footballer career at the Antel where he remained for a season and then moved to the Independent Football Club of San Vicente for a season too, after a collective purchase of players. In 1977 he was hired by Club Sports Fas of Santa Ana, of the First Salvadoran Division, for 600,000 colones.
His nickname comes from a match between the ANTEL and the Águila Sports Club, a game that ended 3-1 in favor of those of González. After his performance, sports commentator Rosalío Hernández Colorado baptized him as & # 34; the magician & # 34;.
International career
His game served to qualify for the Salvadoran team for the World Cup in Spain 1982. In that World Cup González left flashes of his class despite losing the three group phase games. That was enough for Atlético de Madrid, Cádiz, Aurora F.C., Communications, Los Angeles Aztecs, University of Sports and Paris St. Germain, to be interested in his services. The Gallic team suffered the informalities of González by being about to close his signing when the player, arguing that it was too much commitment, he simply decided not to appear at the appointment. Finally, he won the bid for the hiring the Andalusian team of the hand of his technical secretary, Camilo Liz. The signing was set at 7 million pesetas for the first year and, if you want.
His debut with Cádiz occurred in a friendly to the " Trebujena C.F " In Trebujena (Cádiz) in 1982 and his official debut was on September 11, 1982, in a Cádiz CF-Murcia that ended 1-3.
In El Salvador, he was already called " Magician González " For his ability with the ball, a tradition that was barely modified in Spain, where he was called & # 34; Magic & # 34;. In Cádiz, Magic soon won the Spanish fans with his effective game and spectacular goals; In addition to four years, numerous indisciplines were allowed. Jorge González had the habit of sleeping too much, going out on the nights consecutively and having strange and isolated reactions of sports customs; His fame as partying was extended, but sports leaders and the fans in general did not make a stir for the good results in the field. It reached extremes such as bringing their former Salvadoran friends and leaders to try to reason about their behavior, as was assigned by 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. Sanctions were imposed such as non -ownership in matches after their spree that reached the early hours of the early age, which implied that the fans of the Ramón de Carranza stadium protested insistently since it had become In the idol of the club's followers. In this regard, González himself described the situation:
I recognize that I am not a saint, that I like the night and that the desire to play is not taken away by my mother. I know I'm an irresponsible and unprofessional evil, and I may be taking the opportunity of my life. I know, but I have a coconut nonsense: I don't like taking football as a job. If I did, it wouldn't be me. I just play for fun.Jorge González
After the decline from Cádiz to Second Division in the 1983/84 season, Paris Saint Germain and Fiorentina were interested in González, but he decided to stay in the Spanish club; In spite The reason that truncated his transfer to the club was an incident of indiscipline in a Californian hotel, when the fire alarm was activated and Jorge González was the only one to stay in the room with a girl.
In January of the 1984/85 season and after his night spree and disagreements with Benito Joanet, his coach, his transfer was made to Real Valladolid where the Valladolid club made a close marking to his private life, so González Barillas felt harassed and preferred to return to Cádiz in the 1986/87 season, but not before wandering aim under conditions such as the payment of $ 700 per game played.
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After an attempt by the Italian Atalanta for signing it, Jorge González decided to remain in the Spanish club until June 6, 1991, retiring after a year where he barely played, depressed by the event of July 1989. María del Carmen Coca, a young 22 -year -old Gaditana denounced González for attempted rape; The player defended himself and ended up being judicially fought through compensation of 4000 pesetas, although he did not train and play in the same conditions. In 1991 he returned to El Salvador to sign for the FAS Sports Club, where he militated until his retirement In 2000. In that year, he was last summoned to the national team.
After your retirement
After his retirement as an active footballer, he continued linked to sport as second coach of Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer. Returning to El Salvador at the end of the season. In the month of November 2011, he was incorporated as a technical assistant of the Salvadoran team by invitation by technical director Rubén Israel, just at the close of the second round of the Concacaf classification for the 2014 World Cup.
In January 2018, the president of Cádiz traveled to San Salvador (where González resides) to convince him to return and work for the Cádiz Club de Fútbol and help in children's soccer schools.
Tributes
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In 2001 a tribute was paid in Cádiz on the occasion of a charity party to help the victims of the earthquake that year in El Salvador. In 2003, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador appointed him Meritimo Son and appointed Jorge " Magic " González al Exestadio " Flor Blanca ", located in the city of San Salvador, in the Flor Blanca neighborhood. In 2003 he was appointed " best Salvadoran footballer of all time " unanimously among the sports press guild of El Salvador.
On August 28, 2004, he was honored at the stadium that bears his name in a match between former Salvadoran and former soccer players of Cádiz that ended 3-3; González played a half with each team and ended up scoring three goals (two for the Spaniards and one for the Salvadorans). In 2006, the Salvadoran writer Geovani Galeas presented a play based on the life of Jorge González, which titled San Magician, patron of the stadium . That same year, he was invited by Diego Armando Maradona to participate in a football exhibition in El Salvador among a team of former Argentine ex -soccer players against one of Salvadoran counterparts. The meeting ended 5-1 in favor of the South Americans, having marked the only Central American goal. In addition, the FAS Sports Club played in San Salvador a tribute match to the footballer against Boca Juniors and The following year, the National Team paid tribute to invite him to play against the National Hungarian National Team of 1982.
In January 2011, in a survey published by the media www.enbocadegol.com, in which it gave rise to the 50 best goals in the history of the Spanish League, the goal of " the magic " González in the 1987-1988 season to F. C. Barcelona at Camp Nou, was chosen as the best goal with a total of 10737 votes, (61% of the total), ahead of Hagi, Ronaldo, Messi, Zidane, along with others.
In addition, on April 22, 2013 he was chosen with ten other personalities - among them Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini, and George Weah - to be part of the Hall of Fame of Football of the city of Pachuca, in a ceremony which took place on November 12 of the same year. In this regard, he said:
It's a way to represent Central American countrymen like Honduran Gilberto Yearwood, Óscar "Coneja" Sánchez, Guatemala, Panamanian Rommel Fernández or Costa Rican Hernán Medford. We are the Central Americans who are on the same level... but in that case they have chosen me as representing Central America and proudly it is that I am a Salvadoran who does that.
The month of December 2015 the Dalya publishing house publishes in Spain the first book that talks about the Salvadoran star: " Magic González, the legend ", written by the Cadiz author Enrique Alcina. It makes a portrait of his personality, as well as his sports career.
statistics
Clubs
| Club | Country | Year | Parties | Goles | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTEL FC |  El Salvador
| 1975-1976 | 33 | 13 | 0.39 |
| Independent Football Club | El Salvador
| 1976-1977 | 29 | 7 | 0.24 |
| FAS Sports Club | El Salvador
| 1977-1982 | |||
| Cadiz Club of Football |  Spain
| 1982 - 1984 | 84 | 37 | 0.44 |
| Real Valladolid Club of Football | Spain
| 1985 | 10 | 3 | 0.30 |
| Cadiz Club of Football | Spain
| 1986 - 1991 | 135 | 40 | 0.30 |
| FAS Sports Club | El Salvador
| 1991-1999 | 193 | 72 | 0.37 |
| San Salvador Soccer Club | El Salvador
| 2002 |
EL SALVADOR SELECTION
| Selection | Year | Elimination | Continental | World | Friendly | Total | Media Shotgun | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part. | Goles | Part. | Goles | Part. | Goles | Part. | Goles | Part. | Goles | ||||||||
| Absolute El Salvador  El Salvador | |||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||||
| 1977 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0.25 | ||||||||
| 1978 | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||||
| 1979 | - | - | - | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||||
| 1980 | 7 | 5 | - | - | 5 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 0.75 | ||||||||
| 1981 | 4 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0.20 | ||||||||
| 1982 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0.33 | ||||||||
| 1983 | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||||
| 1985 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||||
| 1989 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||||
| 1991 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | |||||||||
| 1992 | 7 | 5 | - | - | 7 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 0.35 | ||||||||
| 1993 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0.25 | ||||||||
| 1998 | - | 2 | 0 | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||||
| Total | 31 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 9 | 62 | 21 | 0.33 | ||||||
| Total | 31 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 9 | 62 | 21 | 0.33 | ||||||
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Honours of Prizes
National titles
| Title | Club | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Division | FAS Sports Club | El Salvador
| 1978 |
| First Division | FAS Sports Club | El Salvador
| 1979 |
| First Division | FAS Sports Club | El Salvador
| 1981 |
| First Division | FAS Sports Club | El Salvador
| 1995 |
| First Division | FAS Sports Club | El Salvador
| 1996 |
International Titles
| Title | Club | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champions Cup | FAS Sports Club | El Salvador
| 1979 |
Participation in World Cups
| Tournament | Headquarters | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 World Cup | Spain Spain
| First phase |
Individual awards
| Distinction | Year |
|---|---|
| Best Salvadoran player of the centuryXX. according to IFFHS | 1999 |