Laurent Di Lorto

Laurent Di Lorto ( born January 1, 1909 in Martigues, † October 28, 1989 in Montbéliard ) was a French football player.

Club career

The always dressed in a gray baseball cap and a maroon knit sweater goalkeeper was " dry as a Rinnsteinkatze " and medically vulnerable, however, impressed by fast reaction, its bounce and acrobatic flight parades. He underwent a regular special training to hone improving his skills, which was far from the norm for a goalkeeper to 1930.

Laurent Di Lorto came as a young man to Olympique Marseille. In the first season as a professional French football ever (1932 /33) Coach Bell put him in place of veteran Charles All games in Division 1 but only rarely; Bells only successor Vincent Dittrich made ​​Di Lorto 1933 goalkeeper. By 1936, graduated from this 81 point games in box Olympique. In the league jumped 1933/34, a third of place, just one point behind champions FC Sète. The team had had it in their own hands to bring because of two catch-up games at the end of the season the title, but both games were lost 1:3 at already relegated CA Paris and 2:4 at home against Excelsior AC Roubaix; Di Lorto was blocked for this last game. He also reached the cup final this season, in which he conceded two goals by Lukács and Marseille bow again had to Sète (final score 1:2 ). But only a year later he won the trophy with Olympique and remained in the 3-0 over Stade Rennais UC without conceding a goal. To Tu Lorto Marseille left, he played alongside a number of well known footballers such as Alcazar, Bastien, Eisenhoffer (who from 1935 served as player-manager ), Kohut and Zatelli. In addition, he was there also himself became a national player ( see below); his successor at Olympique, "Jaguar" Vasconcelos, was also to " Marseille legend," perhaps more iridescent than the factual Laurent Di Lorto.

In 1936 he moved to league rivals FC Sochaux, for whom he played 55 league games in the next two years (for 1936-1938 are accurate use of numbers known). DC In 1937, he was with this club runner and won the French Cup; at the final -2: 1 against Racing Strasbourg he allowed only one hit by Oskar tube. The likewise studded with numerous top footballers team (including Abegglen, Cazenave, Courtois, Jerusalem, basement, basket, Maschinot Mattler and Pibarot ) was at the end of the season 1937/38, moreover, the French title. 1939/40, when war broke out and the German invasion, this team broke literally: foreign players returned to their homeland ( Cazenave to Uruguay, Williams to the UK ) or were interned (Jerusalem ), many others attracted to the uniform. At the championship Sochaux could not participate already. Also, the goalkeeper became a soldier and fought in the Vosges front. After a serious lung disease that he had contracted it, Laurent Di Lorto had to end his professional career already as a 31- year-old.

Stations

• Olympique de Marseille (before 1932-1936 )
• Football Club Sochaux- Montbéliard (1936-1940)

In the National Team

Between February 1936 and June 1938, Di Lorto in 11 A- international caps for the French national team for use; among them were 1937 matches against Germany ( 0:4 ) and Switzerland (2-1). In December of this year provided " Laurent- le- magnifique " to this day a legendary game, a " Festival di Lorto " against the reigning world champions Italy from where he brought the opposing attacker Piola, Meazza, Ferrari and Ferrari to despair and Bleus 0-0 almost alone owed ​​him in this " game of his life ". After the final whistle, he donated 40,000 spectators at the Parc des Princes stadium standing ovation. The following year, he played both games of the Équipe Tricolore at the World Cup finals; there, however, he had to admit in the quarter final three goals of the Italians. Then, the much younger Julien Darui his successor in the national team was.

Palmarčs

• French Champion: 1938 ( and runner-up 1937)
• French Cup Winners: 1935, 1937 ( and finalist 1934)
• 11 A- internationals for France, 2 of them in his time at Marseille and Sochaux at 9; World Cup participant in 1938

Life after the player time

Di Lorto has a time the sport Réunis Saint- Dié trained before he settled in Montbeliard, where he opened a children's clothing store. In 1989, he died there in his 81st year.