Luis PasarÃn
Luis Casas Pasarin ( born April 16, 1902 in Pontevedra, † August 17, 1986 in Madrid) was a Spanish football player and coach.
Career
As a player
Pasarin played in the Youth for Atlético Pontevedra, the club of his hometown, and began his professional career in the nearby city of Vigo, in which it only for Fortuna Vigo and finally after its merger with Real Vigo Sporting six years for the Real newly established Club Celta de Vigo played. As one of the first captains of this association Pasarin won with Celta from 1924 for three consecutive times the Campeonato de Galicia, the regional championship in Galicia. In 1924, the defender took part with Spain in the Olympics, where it transferred as part of the first round defeat against Italy his debut in the national team. In the following two years Pasarin denied a total of six caps for his country, the last on 19 December 1926 in Vigo against Hungary. In the years 1927 and 1928 Pasarin reached with Celta after final defeats against Deportivo La Coruna each second place in the Galician Championship. On December 30, 1928, he took part in the opening game of the Estadio Balaídos, the Celta won 7-0 against Real Unión Irun.
After the introduction of a national league system Pasarin moved in 1929 to second division club FC Valencia. After the rise in the season 1930/31 he was on 29 November 1931 the second round of the season 1931/32, made his debut in the Primera División. In Valencia, he was named team captain and played quickly in the game year 1932/33, 17 out of 18 league games. Valencia ended the season in second to last place in the table and escaped barely escape relegation. In the following two years he came to 22 more Erstligaeinsätze. In the Copa del Presidente de la República 1934, he moved with his team under coach Jack Greenwell a the cup final, but lost 1:2 against the favored Madrid FC. In his last season 1934/35 to Pasarin, who had lost at that time a large part of its physicality, often only to help with fouls knew. In 1935, he ended his career and therefore henceforth worked as an official in the Ministry of Labour in Madrid before the Spanish Civil War broke out.
As a coach
After the Civil War Pasarin decided to pursue a career as a football coach. So he oversaw in 1946 initially for one match as national coach of Spain choice before he took over the coaching job at his former club Valencia for the season 1946/47. Already in his first year as a club coach he won the Spanish Cup with Valencia. The season 1947/48 ended the club with three points behind the CF Barcelona in second place in the table. In the following three years the first division club Celta Vigo Pasarin trained and reached with the club from his native Galicia respectable midfield positions. In 1951 he went to Portugal and took over for a year with FC Porto, with whom he was third at the end of the season behind the two Lisbon clubs Sporting and Benfica. In the season 1953/54, Pasarin supervised ascended the Spanish second division side CD Málaga, with whom he immediately in the Primera División. In the season 1954/55 but was released early in the first 17 league games after only two victories. Regardless of Málaga rose at end of the season again. With the second division side Real Oviedo to Pasarin qualified 1955/56, for the ascension play-offs, in which one just opposite CD Condal and Real Zaragoza drew the short straw. With the start of the season in 1957/58 he worked as manager of Celta Vigo and reached a decent seventh place in the table. In the following season but was released early again after 17 match days. The club was relegated at the end of the season. For the season 1959/60 Pasarin returned back to Real Oviedo, which had in the meantime risen in the Primera División. Despite four wins and three draws from the first ten games, however, he left the club already back in mid-November 1959.
Then finished Pasarin 1959 his 13 -year career as a football coach, during which he had worked for five different clubs as well as the Spanish national team and one Spanish Cup had been able to win. He died on August 17, 1986 at the age of 84 years in Madrid.
Achievements
As a player:
- Campeonato de Galicia: 1924, 1925, 1926
- Campeonato de Valencia: 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934
- Spanish Cup: Finalist 1934
As a coach:
- Spanish Champion: 1947
- Promotion to the Primera División: 1954