Luis Islas
Luis Alberto Islas Ranieri ( born December 22, 1965 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine football player at the FIFA World Cups in 1986 and 1994 participated with the national team of his native land and 1986 FIFA World Champion.
Career
Club career
Luis Islas, born in 1965 in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, his footballing career started in 1982 at the Chacarita Juniors. The champion from 1969, however, was already playing at that time in the second division. During his time at the Chacarita Juniors Estudiantes de La Plata was aware of the young goalkeeper after Islas Argentina had successfully represented at the World Youth Championships in 1983 and a second place was achieved. 110,000 spectators at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City Islas lost with his team until the final against Brazil. In Estudiantes he developed into a solid team regular in the team of the future world champion t Rainier's Carlos Bilardo, who won as a player himself with Estudiantes three times the Copa Libertadores. 1983 won Islas with Estudiantes de La Plata the Metropolitano competition with a victory in the final against CA Independiente. It was at this club he joined in 1986 after 107 games in the Primera División for Estudiantes. In two years Islas played for Independiente 48 league games, a title win did not succeed. After a brief and rather unsuccessful trip to Europe or Atletico Madrid the Spanish unterklassigen Club CD Logroñés 1990 he returned back to Independiente, where he stood the next four years in goal and made another 141 games. After 1994, followed by numerous stations for the goalkeeper, he played for, among others, CA Newell 's Old Boys and the Mexican clubs Toluca and Club León. In 2003, he returned as a 38 -year-old back into the goal of Independiente Avellaneda and stood again eight league games between the posts of the traditional club, before he ended his career.
After the end of his active career as a football goalkeeper Luis Islas was also briefly worked as a coach. He coached in the years 2006 and 2007, the teams of Club Almagro and Club Aurora in Bolivia.
National
After his success at the Junior Argentina Luis Islas played his first international match at senior level in 1984. Two years later he was in the squad of the Argentine national football team for the FIFA World Cup in Mexico. With Nery Pumpido but one other goalkeeper guarded the gate of the Gauchos, so Islas were no use. Since the Argentine team to win the world title at the tournament, Islas came anyway to world championship honors. After the World Cup he played two South American championships, but where he was not re- number 1. Just before the World Cup in Italy in 1990, he finished his international career for the time being. Curiously, located Pumpido injured in the second game and Sergio Goycochea, actually arrived as a third-choice goalkeeper, played the rest of the World Cup, which finished second in Argentina. After the World Cup in Italy Alfio Basile as the new coach of Argentina and Islas was also wanted to again play for Argentina. After winning the King Fahd Cup in 1992, the first Confederations Cup, he was in the squad for the World Cup 1994. Gone as number one in the tournament, his performance was anything but a world champion in four games he conceded six goals, almost logically from the already came in the second round. After the World Cup in the United States his national time finally ended after 30 internationals.