Leonel Sánchez

Leonel Sánchez is a retired Chilean football player. He was born on April 25th of 1936. He is the son of former boxing champion, Carlos Sánchez.

He started playing football on the junior leagues of Universidad de Chile, when he was 11. When he was 16, although he wasn’t in good shape, he started to gain reputation for his powerful left leg and playing like a veteran.

He played on the main team of Universidad de Chile for 16 years, earning 6 titles. In 1969, he switched teams to play for Colo-Colo for 2 seasons (1969 and 1970). In 1971 he played for Club Deportivo Palestino, and finally for Ferroviarios. He retired in 1973.

He also played on the Chilean national team, where he debuted on September 18 of 1955, and played in the world cups of 1958, 1962 and 1966.

He played 526 matches and made 194 goals.

He is especially remembered for punching the Italian player Mario David during the 1962 World Cup, where his team obtained the Third place of the tournament.

Since he has retired, he wrote on the newspaper “La Nacion” and was the godfather on the wedding of his teammate Rubén Marcos.

He is considered to be among the best Chilean football players in history, and is still admired and loved by the fans of Universidad de Chile.

(Written by Mario Cárdenas - 3°J - 7,0)

Iván Zamorano

Ivan Zamorano was born in Santiago, on January 18, 1967. He was the eldest son of a young couple, Luis Zamorano and Alicia Zamora. They lived in La Legua, in the commune of San Miguel.

From kindergarden to eighth grade, he studied in the 447 School located in Villa Mexico, in the commune of Maipu. Later he completed his education in French high school.

His first experience with football was when he was one and a half years old, because his uncle gave him a ball. So when he was learning to walk, he was also learning how to play football.

His first experience playing professional football was in Cobresal. He stayed on that football team for 2 years, and in that time he won awards like “Scorer of the opening tournament”.

Later on, in his first match playing with the Chilean football selection against Peru, he scores his first great goal. He became famous and he had his first big success.

Then he played in many famous teams like Sevilla FC, Real Madrid and many others.

In the 2003, he announced his retirement from the professional football, while he was playing for Colo-Colo in Chile.

(Written by Nicolás Buendía - 3°I - 7,0)

Hiroya Oku

Born on 16 September in 1967, in Fukuoka, Japan, Hiroya Oku is a seinen mangaka, creator of Hen, Zero one, Gantz and Meteru no Kimochi. He has been very criticized, accepted, admired and renamed. He is currently working on the third Gantz phase, his most famous and great job. His mangas often contain scenes of explicit violence and too much blood, as well as light sexual situations, that is why, they are only for adults.

He won the second prize of the youth manga awards in 1988; under the penname Yahiro Kuon, that was his beginning, and after that, he started working on youth jump magazine. He was the first on drawing the “trajectory” demarcated from the nipples to express breast movements, and, since there, many others hentai authors used that invention.

In an interview on 2005, Hiroya admitted that he loves girls with great breasts, and that he has the hobby of drawing dogs. In one of the latest chapters from Meteru no Kimochi, it reveals that this, Gantz and two series called “hen”, are developed in the same fiction world.

I admire him, because he is something like a “crazy genius” of fiction stories, and Gantz is one of the best science-fiction mangas of the last time. It is freaking awesome!

(Written by Sebastián Bahamondes - 3°G - 5,6)

Mike Tyson

Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson was  born in Brooklyn, New York. His family lived in Bedford -Stuyvesant  until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville. Tyson’s  father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick, abandoned the family when Tyson was 2, leaving his mother, Lorna Smith Tyson, to care for them on her own. She died a year later leaving Tyson in the care of boxing manager and trainer Cus D'Amato. Tyson has a brother, Rodney who is five years older and a sister, Denise, who died of a heart attack at the age of 25 in 1991.
He studied in the Tryon school for boys in Johnstown, New York. It was at school that Tyson’s emerging boxing ability was discovered by Bobby Stewart.
Tyson competed at the 1981 and 1982 Junior Olympic Games, and won the gold medal twice.
Tyson was the undisputed heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles. He was the first heavyweight boxer to hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles simultaneously. Tyson is considered to have been one of the better heavyweight boxers of all time. He is also the only Heavyweight boxer to individually unify the WBC, WBA and IBF titles.

(Written by Felipe Báez - 3°J - 6,2)

Zinedine Yazid Zidane

Zinedine Yazid Zidane was born on 23 June, 1972 and he is a retired French footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Zidane played for major club teams in France, Italy and Spain, and was the captain of the French national team. He was the iconic figure of a generation of French players that won the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship. After a brief international retirement, he returned to the national team in 2005 and captained France to the 2006 World Cup Final where he won the Golden Ball as the tournament's most outstanding player.
At club level Zidane won the Spanish League and the UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid, two Series A league championships with Juventus, and an Intercontinental Cup, and a UEFA Super Cup each with both aforementioned sides. He is, alongside Brazilian striker Ronaldo, the only three-time FIFA World Player of the Year winner; he also won the Ballon d'Or in 1998. He retired from professional football after the 2006 World Cup.

(Written by Jorge Araya - 3°J - 6,8)

Marcelo Ríos

Marcelo Ríos Mayorga, nicknamed “El Chino” was born in Santiago on December 26, 1975. At the age of nine his mother decided to introduce him to the world of sports. She enrolled him in classes at the Stade Francaise, where his teacher, Felipe Puelma, discovered that he had talent.

At the beginning of 1988 he began training in the Santa Rosa of Las Condes Sports Club. Two years later at Universidad Católica he changed to Hans Gildemeister’s Club, being Gildemeister also one of the people responsible for Ríos’s success.

In 1992, at the age of 16, he was a national champion in the US Open in doubles, with Gabriel Silberstein.

His first professional victory came in 1995 where he won the Bologna’s title. Since then, he won 21 titles in singles, in matches such as Montecarlo in 1997, Indian Wells, Key Biscayne and Rome in 1998, Qatar in 2001, Hong Kong in 2001, among others.

It was in March of 1998, playing in the Key Biscayne Championship where he became the number one tennis player defeating André Agassi in the final.

He announced his retirement from tennis on July 16, 2004.

 (Written by Matías Abarca - 3°H - 5,6)