He was blessed with calmness, discipline, tactical awareness, athletic ability and football skills, all of which incidentally were the pre-requisites for a centre-half that was expected to defend well and to lead the team out of defence with the ball at his feet.

He was awarded the G.F.A. Footballer of the Year award at the age of 19, at the time the youngest player ever to receive such an award. George was so outstanding that he outshone all other players that season despite the fact that his team, St. George's, finished the season without a win in league play. Of course, Ghajnsielem F.C. would like to think that his guest appearances for the Blacks that season in the Independence Cup boosted George in his quest for this kind of recognition. George played a co-starring role with Loreto Galea in the progress towards the conquest of this trophy with heroic performances in the first round defeat of Nadur Y. 1-0, in the quarter-final triumph over champions Victoria H. 3-1 and in the final itself against S.K. Calypsians 2-1. Here he was, a nineteen year old leading the defence of the oldest and proudest club in Gozo. This was way before he had Karmenu Caruana and Nikol Cutajar as his half-backs and Salvinu or Frank Xuereb as his left-back and Mario Camilleri as his right back.

Indeed, in his career with the Blacks that spanned exactly ten years, his contribution progressed from that of an extremely busy defender plugging all sorts of holes in defence and rationally distributing the ball from the back, to the stabilizing influence of a player that was years ahead of his time in the tactical intricacies that underpinned the Blacks' fourth and fifth titles. Keeping the side short, maintaining balance at the back, dashing out upon change of possession, all novel concepts then and still poorly understood now, were enforced by this firm central defender. 

However, it was the young, skittish George Schembri that caught the eyes of Ghajnsielem's committee in the mid-sixties. In one of the happiest football marriages ever, Ghajnsielem trusted the keys to the door to an outsider Schembri. The player, club-less upon the demise of St. George's, looked around and could have gone to any of the big clubs, Victoria Hotspurs, Nadur Youngsters, S.K. Calypsians. He chose Ghajnsielem. He chose wisely. He astutely decided that his efforts would be best rewarded in Ghajnsielem. Did he ever win with Ghajnsielem! But Ghajnsielem won because of him, his name was first on the line-up for ten years and with good reason. He anchored the Club's thriftiest defence of all time, a defence which at its peak conceded a mere 31 goals in 49 league matches and 50 goals in 84 league and cup matches. 

One of the magnificent eight who were present in all five championships won by the Blacks, George had his career cruelly cut short by injury, January 11, 1976 still short of his twenty ninth birthday. He injured his knee in a league match against Xaghra United. He was stretchered off, never to walk back on the field of play again. But if a career is to end in such an abrupt manner and so prematurely, so be it, when you consider that its short span was glittered with silverware and glory.