Ezio Loik
| Ezio Loik | ||
 Ezio Loik in the second half of the 1940s
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | September 26, 1919 | |
| place of birth | Fiume , Italy | |
| date of death | May 4, 1949 | |
| Place of death | Superga , Italy | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| US Fiumana | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1936-1937 | US Fiumana | 41 (12) |
| 1937-1940 | AC Milan | 53 (10) |
| 1940-1942 | AC Venice | 60 (13) |
| 1942-1949 | AC Turin | 176 (70) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1942-1949 | Italy | 9 (4) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Ezio Loik (born September 26, 1919 in Fiume , † May 4, 1949 in Superga ) was an Italian football player. As part of the famous Grande Torino team , he won five Italian championship titles and also made nine caps for his home country.
Career
Ezio Loik, born in 1919 in Fiume , which was then an Italian province, began playing football for the US Fiumana club based in his hometown . In Serie C 1936/37, the young midfielder made 41 league games in which he scored twelve goals. After that one year in the Fiumana first team, Ezio Loik left his hometown club and joined AC Milan . For Milan , Loik made a total of 53 games in Serie A between 1937 and 1940 , scoring ten goals. After three years in Milan , Ezio Loik moved to AC Venice in the summer of 1940 , where he helped shape the most successful phase in the club's history. Against AS Roma , the team around the young Valentino Mazzola won the Coppa Italia 1940/41 title after winning 1-0 in a replay with a goal from Ezio Loik. Loik's second season in the league in Venice was also very successful . With the third place in the Serie A 1941/42 one reached in this season until today the best placement in the highest Italian football league.
After the end of the 1941/42 season, Ezio Loik changed employers again and signed a contract with the reigning runner-up AC Turin . At Torino , Loik played a key role in building the Grande Torino , which was by far the best club team in Italy at the time. The Grande Torino around players such as star striker Valentino Mazzola, defender Mario Rigamonti or winger Romeo Menti dominated Italian football in the late 1940s and won the football championship in Italy five times in a row between 1943 and 1949, only interrupted by the Second World War , which paused the game made necessary. Ezio Loik was a regular in the big AC Turin team. Between 1942 and 1949 he played 176 league games with seventy goals in the Granata jersey . He was also there when AC Turin won the title of Italian Cup winner in the 1942/43 season with a 4-0 win against their old club, AC Venice. The nine international matches that Ezio Loik played in the jersey of the Italian national football team between 1942 and 1949 also fall in the heyday of AC Turin . Loik scored four goals in these nine games.
On May 4, 1949, AC Turin's winning streak ended in one fell swoop. After a draw against AS Bari prematurely secured the championship in Serie A 1948/49 - the fifth title in a row - President Ferruccio Novo arranged a friendly match in Lisbon, Portugal . On the return flight, the pilot steered his aircraft in heavy fog to Turin's local mountain Superga , where it crashed on Basilicata. The accident cost the lives of all inmates, including the entire AC Turin team. Ezio Loik was also affected, he was 29 years old. After the Superga plane crash , the heyday of AC Turin was over. The club rose less than ten years later to Serie B and since then has only won the title of Italian football champions once.
successes
- Italian championship : 5 ×
- Italian cup win : 2 ×
Web links
- Ezio Loik in the database of weltfussball.de
- Player Profile (Italian)
- List of international matches (Italian)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Loik, Ezio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rijeka , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1949 |
| Place of death | Superga , Italy |