Ludovico Avio

Ludovico Héctor Avio ( born May 15, 1932 in Pigüé, Argentina, † June 23, 1996 in Mar del Plata, Argentina) was an Argentine football player. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the Football World Cup 1958.

Career

Club career

Ludovico Avio began his footballing career in 1952 at Argentino de Quilmes in the same city in the province of Buenos Aires. After three years at the club he joined in 1954 Quilmes AC, the bigger club from Quilmes, the commonly counts as one of the oldest football clubs in Argentina. At Quilmes AC Avio remained another year, before moving to CA Velez Sarsfield in Buenos Aires. In the club he played until the year 1961, but could not win a national title. After 74 games and 22 goals for Velez Sarsfield Ludovico went Avio 1961 CA All Boys, also from Buenos Aires. Since Avio played as well as in all his previous stations rather at smaller clubs, he also succeeded in the jersey of the All Boys no national champion title or any other title. After his time with the All Boys, where he played only one year he acted for a short time at the club unterklassigen CA San Lorenzo Mar del Plata, before in 1967 he ended his active career at the age of 36 years. In 1970 he returned for a short time back on the football field and played three games for the club Kimberley, also from Mar del Plata.

National

Ludovico Avio was used in the Argentine national football team total of six times. From Argentina coach Guillermo Stábile he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1958 in Sweden. The tournament Avio came in two of the three games of the Argentines used. 's 3-1 victory in the second round match against Northern Ireland he had a hit, he scored the 3-1 in the 59th minute, which also meant the final score after Argentina previously by Omar Corbatta and Norberto Menéndez the initial leadership of the Northern Irishman by Peter McParland had equalized. In his second tournament game, the embarrassing 1:6 against Czechoslovakia, remained Avio without scoring. For Argentina the FIFA World Cup 1958 ended with a disappointing elimination in the first round.