Félix Loustau
Félix Loustau ( born December 25, 1922 in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province; † January 5, 2003 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine national football team. With the Argentina national football team he won three Copa América. At club level he was at CA River Plate part of the legendary Máquina, one of the outstanding club formations in football history, and won numerous championships with the club.
Loustau whether its externality and his unconventional style when dribbling with the nickname " Chaplin " (→ Charles Chaplin ) concerned, was known for his speed and dribbling skills. The forward played linksfüßige precise passes and had a placed shot. Even today, he is often regarded as the best left outside the Argentine football history.
Career
In youth Loustau made his first footballing baby steps at the local club CA Defensores de Belgrano and Sportivo Brandsen before he joined the Racing Club, also based in his home district Avellaneda, joined. Even in the youth team of Racing He attracted the age of 17 the attention of River Plate. To avoid a direct trade between the two great clubs, Loustau twice played for Sportivo Dock Sud, before the Millonarios, as River is also known, joined and where he should celebrate their successes over 15 years.
He was still playing at Racing on the defensive, it was quickly recognized his talent as a striker River. He made his debut with the first team on 28 June 1942 at the Estadio Monumental in the game against Platense and should celebrate in the same year his first championship with River.
He developed very soon alongside Adolfo Pedernera, José Manuel Moreno, Angel Labruna and Juan Carlos Muñoz was named a part of the Máquina, the machine such as the extraordinarily powerful play, the Argentine football those years belonged to River Plate. By 1957, seven more championships to follow. Loustau contributed, among others, a total of 101 Goals in 365 games.
After the championship from 1957 Loustau moved briefly to Estudiantes de La Plata, where he in 1958 at the age of 35 ended his playing career.
National
1945 Félix Loustau was appointed for the first time in the Argentine national team. In the same year he won with the Albiceleste the Campeonato Sudamericano 1945 in Santiago de Chile. Large sympathies earned him there when he shouldered his injured after a challenge prostrate opponent and contributed to the foul line. This earned him his time a large special applause from the audience.
In the following two years with Argentina he managed to defend the title at the tournaments in Buenos Aires and in Ecuador Guayaquil. Overall Loustau approached to 1952 27 times for Argentina, scoring 10 goals.
Later years
Following his playing career, he worked as a trainer and became a professor at the school coach of the Argentine Football Association.
On January 5, 2003 Félix " Chaplin " Loustau died penultimate survivor of the legendary Máquina in Buenos Aires at the age of 80 years due to a heart and lung failure. He was buried in the cemetery of Avellaneda, the Cementerio de Avellaneda.
Achievements
- Copa América: 1945, 1946, 1947
- Championship of Argentina: ( 8x) 1942, 1945, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957