Isidro Lángara

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Isidro Lángara
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Isidro Lángara on the cover of El Grafico
Personnel
Surname Isidro Lángara Galarraga
birthday May 25, 1912
place of birth Pasaia ,  Spain
date of death August 21, 1992
Place of death Andoain , Spain
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1930-1936 Real Oviedo 61 0(81)
1936-1939 Euzkadi 9 0(15)
1939-1943 San Lorenzo de Almagro 121 (110)
1943-1946 Real Club España 80 (105)
1946-1948 Real Oviedo 29 0(23)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1932-1936 Spain 12 0(17)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1950-1951 Unión Española
1951-1955 Puebla FC
1955 - ???? San Lorenzo de Almagro
1 Only league games are given.

Isidro Lángara Galarraga (born May 25, 1912 in Pasaia , Gipuzkoa , † August 21, 1992 in Andoain , Gipuzkoa) was a Spanish football player . The extremely dangerous striker scored 17 goals in 12 international matches for the Spanish national team . He was also three times top scorer in the Spanish league , twice top scorer in the Mexican league and once top scorer in the Argentine league .

biography

Spain (first stage)

Isidro Lángara signed a contract with Real Oviedo in 1930 at the age of 18 , whose football team was playing in the second division at the time . In 1933 the club achieved promotion to the football club for the first time in its history, and Lángara played a key role in this success. Even in the first division he had no problems from the beginning to assert himself and was - with 27 goals in the 1933/34 season, 26 goals in the 1934/35 season and again 27 goals in the 1935/36 season - three times in a row Top scorer in the Spanish league . Overall, Lángara was used in his six-year first leg at Oviedo in 220 competitive games and scored 281 goals.

Real Oviedo had developed into a top team thanks to its young and talented assault line - with Lángara at the top - and took third place twice in a row in the last two seasons of 1934/35 and 1935/36. But then the Spanish civil war began , as a result of which the Spanish championship was suspended until 1939 and the hopeful team fell apart. The native Basque Lángara joined the Basque national team , which was allowed to play in the Mexican league in 1938/39 under the name Euzkadi and was runner-up behind Asturias .

By taking this step, however, he had cut ties to the Spanish national team, for which he would never appear again in the future. Between 1932 and 1936 he was a total of 12 times for the national team and scored 17 goals. At the Football World Cup in Italy in 1934 , he played two games in Spain and, with his two goals against Brazil, played a key role in the 3-1 victory of his team, which met hosts Italy in the quarter-finals. Because no penalty shoot-out was used to decide about progress in a knockout round, a replay had to be played after the 1-1 (with Lángara), which Spain (without Lángara) lost 0-1.

Argentina

In 1939 the Basque national team fell apart and the Euzkadi players reoriented themselves. Lángara ended up in Buenos Aires , where he played for the next four years (until 1943) for San Lorenzo de Almagro and for which he scored 110 goals in 121 league games. In his first game against River Plate he scored all four goals for his new team's 4-2 victory and his first season in Argentina (1939/40) was the top scorer.

Mexico

When professional football was introduced in Mexico (and the players' salaries there were higher than in Argentina), Lángara moved to Real Club España in 1943 , where he experienced perhaps the most successful period of his active football career. Because here he won his only titles as a player: the Copa México in 1944 and the Mexican championship in 1945 . He also scored 105 first division goals in the three seasons with España, making him Mexico's top scorer in both 1943/44 (with 27 goals) and 1945/46 (with 40 goals). Only in the championship season 1944/45 it was not enough for the top scorer despite his 38 goals, because the Argentine Roberto Aballay , who plays for España's arch-rival Asturias , scored 40 goals in that season.

Spain (second stage)

In 1946 Lángara returned to Spain and played again for his ex-club Real Oviedo. While he still managed 18 hits (in 20 games) in his first season 1946/47, it was enough in his second and overall last season 1947/48 to only nine missions and five goals.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Lángara went back to Mexico to live there. During this time he went to South America twice: in 1950/51 he coached the Chilean club Unión Española and won the championship with it . In 1955 he returned to his former Argentine club San Lorenzo de Almagro. In between, he coached the Mexican Puebla FC and won the cup competition with him in 1952/53 . He later returned to his homeland, where he died at the age of 80.

successes

Personally

As a player with his club

As a coach with his club

Sources and web links

personal data
SURNAME Lángara, Isidro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lángara Galarraga, Isidro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasaia , Spain
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1992
Place of death Andoain , Spain