Bill Looby

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Bill Looby (actually William Edward Looby * 11. November 1931 in St. Louis ; † 9. December 1998 in St. Louis) was an American football - striker . In the 1950s he was one of the best attackers in US football , as a key player in his home club St. Louis Raiders / Kutis , he won six US Amateur Cups in a row from 1956 to 1961 , as well as the US Open Cup in 1957 , for the USA he came to eight senior international games, took part in the 1956 Olympic Games and won the bronze medal at the 1959 Pan-American Games .

Looby was a two-footed, headed, half-right striker who was also dangerous from a distance.

Looby played for various clubs from St. Louis in 1949/1950 before moving to the St. Raiders, the later St. Louis Kutis, with whom he was to become very successful in 1950.

In the national team, Looby formed an outstanding attacking trio with Al Zerhusen and Ed Murphy in the 1950s , although they only played one full international match - the USA almost always played fewer than two full international caps in the 1950s They, the US team in numerous friendly games against club teams and regional selections, as well as in the qualifications or finals of the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and the Pan American Games in 1959 that are not recognized as A-internationals - in the last tournament alone they shot together in six games 24 goals. He made his international debut in qualifying for the 1954 World Cup , where he was used in all three games and scored four out of seven goals for the United States. Up to his last A international match against England in 1959 , he came to a total of eight internationals and scored eight goals.

In 2001 he was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame and 1984 into the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d William Looby. National Soccer Hall of Fame, accessed December 31, 2009 .
  2. ↑ a b Bill Looby and Bob Hermann Elected by Veteran's Committee to the National Soccer Hall of Fame. (No longer available online.) US Soccer , June 11, 2001, archived from the original on April 25, 2012 ; accessed on December 31, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  3. ↑ Roger Allaway: Looby Murphy Zerhusen: A Different Triple-Edged Sword. In: The USA Soccer History Archives. March 18, 2003, accessed December 31, 2009 .
  4. ^ Barrie Courtney: World Cup 1954 - Qualifying. Barrie Courtney, June 17, 2009, accessed December 31, 2009 .
  5. ↑ St. Louis Soccer HOF: Hall of Fame Members (AM). Retrieved December 31, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Looby, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Looby, William Edward (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1998
Place of death St. Louis