Eduardo Di Loreto

Eduardo Di Loreto

Eduardo Di Loreto (born October 28, 1929 in Villa Mugueta , Santa Fe province ; † February 2010 ) was an Argentine football player and coach , as which he worked in France for a long time after stints in Argentina .

Player career

The 181 centimeter tall striker began his professional career in 1949 when he was added to the squad of the Argentine first division club Rosario Central . However, he did not get beyond occasional assignments there. For the duration of the 1950 calendar year he belonged to the team of league rival Ferro Carril Oeste , but was only called up once. At the turn of the year 1950/51 he returned to Rosario and was able to establish himself in the following time with the club, which was relegated to the second class. With 28 goals in 24 games, he achieved the best goal rate of his career in the 1951 season and at the same time contributed to the team's promotion. Despite his success, he did not go to the top division in the country, but moved to the second division CA Sarmiento . For Sarmiento he scored eleven times and could not build on previous successes despite a decent quota. In Argentina he had a total of six first division games with one goal and 47 second division games with 39 goals.

1953 Di Loreto left his home country and moved to the French first division club Le Havre AC . With the Northern French, he contributed twelve goals in 16 games during the 1953/54 season, but still had to accept relegation to the second division. He spent the 1954/55 season as the undisputed regular player and was one of the league's most successful goalscorers with 27 goals, but at the same time failed to rise again. Since he had aroused interest in the clubs in the French elite league through his performances, he was able to get back to the first division thanks to his signature at Toulouse FC in 1955, despite the missed promotion . The Argentine, who was known as tête d'or (gold head) in France due to his striking headball strength, made his breakthrough at Toulouse and was his team's most important goal guarantor with 14 and 16 goals respectively in the following years. In addition, he reached the national cup final in 1957 with the team ; in the final he was involved with a goal in the 6: 3 success against SCO Angers and thus drove the first title of his career. Another year followed, in which he scored the fewest hits since his breakthrough in Argentina with ten.

After three years in Toulouse, Di Loreto moved to his ex-club Le Havre in 1958, which continued to compete in the second division. For this he made a significant contribution to winning the second division championship in 1959, which was associated with promotion, with 24 goals. In addition, he moved into a cup final for the second time in the same year; However, he was not on the pitch when his colleagues secured the trophy with a 3-0 replay against FC Sochaux . He then played first class for another year, losing his regular place and ended his professional career in 1960 at the age of 30 after 123 first division games with 59 goals and 63 second division games with 51 goals in France. From 1960 to 1961 he ran for the fourth division AAJ Blois .

Coaching career

In the summer of 1962, the ex-professional was introduced as the new coach at his former club Le Havre. With the now second class club, he failed in fourth place in 1963 and was not kept in office afterwards. He moved to Blois, where he had also played, and coached there for another year until 1964. He later returned to Argentina and died in his homeland in 2010 at the age of 80 of complications from a heart attack.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduardo Di Loreto - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
2. ↑ Football: Eduardo Di Loreto , footballdatabase.eu
3. ^ Carrière d'Eduardo Di Loreto , hacmandu59.skyrock.com
4. ↑ Mort de Tête d'or , kcm84.canalblog