Laurent Di Lorto

Di Lorto

Laurent Di Lorto (born January 1, 1909 in Martigues , † October 28, 1989 in Montbéliard ) was a French football player .

Club career

The goalkeeper , always dressed in a gray peaked cap and a wine-red knitted sweater, was "skinny as a gutter cat" and health-prone, but impressed with his responsiveness, his jumping ability and acrobatic parades. He underwent regular special training in order to improve his skills, which was by no means the norm for a goalkeeper around 1930.

Laurent Di Lorto came to Olympique Marseille as a young man . In the first professional season of French football at all (1932/33), coach Bell only rarely used him in Division 1 games instead of the veteran Charles Allé ; only Bell's successor Vinzenz Dittrich made Di Lorto the goalkeeper in 1933. By 1936 this completed 81 point games in the box of Olympique. A third place jumped out of the league in 1933/34, just one point behind champions FC Sète . The team had it in their own hands to win the title due to two catch-up games at the end of the season, but both games were lost: 1: 3 at CA Paris, which had already been relegated, and 2: 4 at home against Excelsior AC Roubaix ; Di Lorto was suspended for this last game. He also reached the cup final this season , in which he conceded two goals by Lukács and Marseille had to bow again to Sète (final score 1: 2). But just a year later he won this trophy with Olympique and did not concede a 3-0 win over Stade Rennais UC . Until Di Lorto left Marseille, he played alongside a number of well-known footballers such as Alcazar , Bastien , Eisenhoffer (who worked as a player- coach from 1935), Kohut and Zatelli . He had also become a national player there himself (see below) ; his successor at Olympique, “Jaguar” Vasconcelos , also became a “Marseilles legend”, possibly even more colorful than the matter-of-fact Laurent Di Lorto.

In 1936 he moved to league rivals FC Sochaux , for whom he played 55 point games in the following two years (only for 1936-1938 exact numbers are known). In 1937 he was runner-up with this club and won the French Cup; in the final 2-1 against Racing Strasbourg , he only allowed one goal from Oskar Rohr . The team, which is also made up of numerous top footballers (including Abegglen , Cazenave , Courtois , Jerusalem , Keller , Korb , Maschinot , Mattler and Pibarot ) also became French champions at the end of the 1937/38 season . In 1939/40, after the outbreak of war and the German invasion , these eleven literally disbanded: foreign players returned to their homeland (Cazenave to Uruguay, Williams to Great Britain) or were interned (Jerusalem), numerous others put on their uniforms. Sochaux could no longer participate in the championship. The gatekeeper also became a soldier and fought on the Vosges front . After a serious lung disease that he contracted, Laurent Di Lorto had to end his professional career at the age of 31.

Stations

• Olympique de Marseille (before 1932-1936)
• Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard (1936–1940)

In the national team

Between February 1936 and June 1938, Di Lorto was used in 11 international matches for the French national team; these included encounters against Germany (0: 4) and Switzerland (2: 1) in 1937 . In December of this year, “Laurent-le-magnifique” delivered a game that is still legendary today, a “Festival Di Lorto”, against the reigning world champion Italy , in which he brought the opposing attackers Piola , Meazza , Ferrari and Ferraris to despair and the Bleus owed him the 0-0 almost alone in this "game of his life". After the final whistle, 40,000 spectators gave him a standing ovation in the Prinzenparkstadion . The following year he played both games of the Equipe tricolore at the World Cup finals ; there, however, he had to allow three goals for the Italians in the quarterfinals. Then the much younger Julien Darui was his successor in the national team.

Palmarès

• French champion: 1938 (and runner-up in 1937)
• French cup winner: 1935, 1937 (and finalist 1934)
• 11 full internationals for France, including 2 during his time with Marseille and 9 with Sochaux; World Cup participant in 1938

Life after player time

Di Lorto coached the Sports Réunis Saint-Dié for a while before settling in Montbéliard , where he opened a children's clothing store. In 1989 he died there at the age of 81.

literature

• Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
• Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6
• L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
• Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5
• Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 ² ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

1. ↑ Chaumier, p. 100; Rethacker / Thibert, p. 149
2. ↑ Pécheral, pp. 55f.
3. ↑ Pécheral, p. 384
4. ^ Pécheral, p. 374
5. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, p. 119; Pécheral, pp. 75-77.
6. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, pp. 350/351
7. ↑ Pécheral, p. 385
8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Coupe, p. 353
9. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, pp. 138-140.
10. ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 141
11. ↑ Pécheral, p. 56
12. ↑ Both terms from Rethacker / Thibert, p. 153; Laurent-le-magnifique means "Laurent the great (good) e."
13. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0 , pp. 54/55 (with several photos of scenes from the game) and 307; similar to Pécheral, p. 429; Chaumier, p. 101
14. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, pp. 148/149
15. ^ In Robert Franta: Football World Cup 1938 France. AGON, Kassel 1995, 2002² ISBN 3-89784-018-9 , p. 59, there are photos of the two Piola hits against Di Lorto.
16. ↑ Chaumier, p. 101

Web links

• Data sheet with photo on the website of the French Association