Lou Sagastume

Lou Sagastume
Personnel
Surname	Luis Sagastume
birthday	September 24, 1944
place of birth	Guatemala
position	Midfielder and defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Lincoln High School
1964-1967	San Francisco Dons
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1968-1969	Oakland Clippers
1975	San Antonio Thunder	9 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1964-1974	St. Ignatius College Preparatory
1967-1968	San Francisco Dons (Co-Tr.)
1974-1976	California State University, Chico (Co-Tr.)
1975	San Antonio Thunder
1977-1988	St. Ignatius College Preparatory
1978-1979	San Francisco State University
1979-2006	United States Air Force Academy
2006-2013	St. Mary's High School
2015-2016	Colorado Springs Switchbacks (Co-Tr.)
	Pride SC (youth coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Luis "Lou" Sagastume (born September 24, 1944 in Guatemala ) is a former Guatemalan -American football player on the position of midfielder and defender . While still a student, in the mid-1960s, he began his career as a football coach , in which he is still active today. He is considered the "father" of the men's soccer program at the United States Air Force Academy and was there from 1979 to 2006 in 28 seasons as a coach.

Player career

Born in the Central American state of Guatemala and raised in Northern California , Sagastume played football during his time at Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco . After graduating from high school in 1964, he joined the local University of San Francisco and was active on the men's soccer team at the San Francisco Dons University Sports Department. During his time at the University of San Francisco, he was mostly a midfielder and led his squad in his junior and senior years as team captain . He was also on a Far Western Conference championship team three times and was part of the team when it won the 1966 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship in his junior year in 1966 . This year he was chosen because of his achievements - together with his striker colleague Eduardo Rangel - to the All-American Second Team . After receiving his bachelor's degree , Sagastume, who played with a number of later professional players during his student days under his coach Steve Negoesco , made it to the top North American soccer league, the North American Soccer League (NASL).

As the preferred candidate of the Oakland Clippers , who, after participating in the only one-year National Professional Soccer League (NPSL), took part in the recently founded North American Soccer League, he was active with them up to and including 1969. The game year 1968 still in the NASL and with a second place in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference , the Oakland Clippers played between September 1968 and June 1969 as California Clippers in a game phase independent of the NASL against various teams from abroad and took up to Reconstitution of the NASL does not participate in their official game operations. Nevertheless, Sagastume remained in the squad of the franchise and played the said friendly matches against the international teams as part of this. After almost exactly the same team as in 1968 was used in 1969 and the decision was made to survive the time better financially by only playing in friendly matches, this plan did not work and the franchise had to cease playing at the age of 4 for financial reasons. June 1969 ceased completely and dissolved accordingly.

After working as a trainer during his student days, he trained his first professional team in 1975 with the NASL franchise San Antonio Thunder . During the game year 1975 he sat himself in nine championship games and thus made his debut as a player in the NASL. With the team he reached in the league divided into four different divisions only the last place in the Central Division , with the team recorded the fewest points of all 20 teams in this NASL game year. In the following year, the owner Herman Warden Lay junior already a new coach and Sagastume had to leave the franchise. After that he was not used in any further professional games and without exception concentrated on his career as a football coach.

Coaching career

Sagastume began his coaching career while still a student at the University of San Francisco, where he was employed as a coach at the private St. Ignatius College Preparatory as early as 1964 . Subsequently, he directed the fortunes of the men's soccer team there until 1974 and was also active as assistant coach of his former instructor, Steve Negoesco , from 1967 to 1968 at his old training facility, the University of San Francisco . He was the coach of the junior varsity football team from 1967 and had a record of 30 wins in the two seasons, compared to only two defeats. After finishing his time at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, he joined California State University, Chico, as an assistant coach in 1974 . He worked there up to and including 1976 and was assistant trainer and during this time he also did his Master of Physical Education , i.e. the Master in physical education . With the Chico State Wildcats it brought it to a record of 29 wins and three losses in his two years. He was then involved in rebuilding the football program at St. Ignatius College Preparatory and was again coach of the men's team from 1977 to 1978. At the school he came in the course of his careers there in the 1960s and 1970s to three championship titles in the West Catholic Athletic League , as well as to four second places. Subsequently, Sagastume was head coach at San Francisco State University from 1978 to 1979 and brought it with the San Francisco State Gators to a record of 21 wins, eight losses and no draw. In 1978 he was named Far Western Conference Coach of the Year after leading the SFSU to runner-up in the NCAA Division II Regionals . The team also won the 1978 Far Western Conference championship.

After a few coach changes in previous years, Lou Sagastume took over the coaching position with the men's soccer team of the Air Force Falcons , the university sports department of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs . Subsequently, he became the longest-serving football coach in the sports department, where he held this position in 28 seasons up to and including the 2006 game year. During that time between 1979 and 2006, three of his trained players were elected to the All-American First Team ; in addition, his protégés received 26 all-region honors and 63 all-conference recognitions over the years . Sagastume himself has been voted Midwest Region (Division I) Coach of the Year twice over the years , as well as Coach of the Year for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Soccer League (RMISL) and the Far Western Conference . During his time as a coach, the team changed associations within the National Collegiate Athletic Association several times. The team played until 1991 in the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Soccer League, from 1992 to 1995 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, from 1996 to 1996 in the Western Athletic Conference and from 1997 back in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. With the Falcons, at the time of his departure, he was involved in 14 of the 16 winning seasons with a double-digit number of victories (English double-digit win seasons ) in the history of the Academy. Furthermore, under his leadership, the Falcons reached nine of the 23 conference championships up to this point by 2006, as well as four participations in the ten NCAA tournament appearances in the history of the football program at the Air Force Academy.

The year 1993 went down in history as one of the most successful years, when he and his team had a record of 15 wins, five defeats and one draw and at the end of the year he became MPSF coach-of-the- Year was chosen. In what is considered to be the best year in the history of the Falcons, the team won the Mountain Division of the MPSF and made it into the tournament of the top eight teams of the NCAA of the game year 1993. Before that, the team had in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 1993 already knocked out the team from Creighton University in round 1 and the team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the second round and lost in the third round of the final eight with 0: 6 to the team from the University of South Carolina , which only eliminated in the final against the Virginia Cavaliers . The first-round game against Creighton, which ended in four extra periods 2-1 in favor of the Air Force Academy, went down in history as one of the most controversial games in NCAA Division I as the game continued below freezing and during a violent period Snowstorm took place. In 1996 he was also voted Coach of the Year, in this case Midwest Region Coach of the Year , when he had 14 wins, three losses and as many draws with the team and in the national Ranking was in third place of the entire United States. The team also managed to participate in the game for the first-ever WAC Championship . This year, three of his players received All-Conference honors, with one, team captain John Stratton , even being elected to the All-American First Team .

The following year, 1997, he took the Falcons to new heights when he entered the preseason with the Air Force Falcons for the first time in the history of the football program with a place in the national ranking. The team proved their performance and came with a record of 13 wins and five losses for the first NCAA tournament appearance in four years. That same year, Sagastume also achieved his 200th victory as a trainer for the Air Force Falcons when the team defeated Oral Roberts University 4-1 at Cadet Soccer Stadium in October 1997 . After 28 seasons as a trainer of the Air Force Falcons, Sagastume ended his career there in 2006 and could show a record of 282 wins, 188 losses and 43 draws. Furthermore, he came in the Conference on 94 wins, 59 losses and eleven draws. In his senior year he made even his 300th victory as a college football coach and ranks among the 25 coaches, which this in the history of NCAA Division I succeeded. This was also one of the reasons for his repeated election as MPSF Coach-of-the-Year , which he shared with two other coaches. Throughout his career as a college football coach, Lou Sagastume has had 303 wins, 195 losses and 43 draws. In the year after his departure, he was elected to the Mountain-Pacific-Sports-Federation-Men's-Soccer-15th-Anniversary-Team together with the coach of the UCLA Bruins from 1980 to 1999, Sigi Schmid , after he was alone in the MPSF reached 107 victories from 1992 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2006.

His successor as the men's football coach of the Air Force Falcons was Doug Hill, who was once a player under Sagastume from 1979 to 1982 and, among other things, acted as team captain from 1981 to 1982. After graduating from the Academy in 1983, he also embarked on a career as a football coach and worked as an assistant coach behind Sagastume from 1983, 1992 to 1997 and 2001 to 2006. Incidentally, Hill also continued to belong to the United States Air Force and only ended his engagement there shortly before he took over the position of coach. He resigned in April 2006 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and with 2,800 flight hours from military service. After leaving the Air Force Academy, Sagastume immediately took over the coaching position of the boys' soccer team at the local St. Mary's High School in Colorado Springs. Subsequently, he coached the team for seven seasons and ended his engagement there at the end of the 2013 game year. Nevertheless, he announced that he would continue to work as a coach in club football, especially with youth training clubs. In 2010 he was named The Gazette's Soccer Coach of the Year by the local newspaper The Gazette , which brought out a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2014. After taking part as a supervisor at a junior training camp organized by the Colorado Springs Switchbacks in 2015 , he joined the former Jamaican international Wolde Harris as one of Steve Trittschuh's two assistant coaches for the professional team with games in third-rate United for the 2016 game year Soccer League presented. In this position, he worked for much of the 2016 game year, after having participated in several championship games as an assistant coach in 2015. For several years now, Sagastume has also been a coach of the Pride Soccer Club and is currently (as of 2019) still a coach.

Sagastume is considered the first American with an FA coaching license . Furthermore, he is in possession of the A license of the US Association and during his time at the Air Force Academy he also led the summer soccer camps as well as numerous day camps. He also worked as a representative of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Pikes Peak Youth Invitational Soccer Tournament , which is still hosted by the Academy today and is one of the largest of its kind in the United States with often more than 240 teams. During his time at the Air Force Academy, he joined (as an assistant professor in physical education English. Physical education ) in appearance.

Private life

Lou Sagastume has lived in Colorado Springs with his wife Linda (* 1955) for decades and has five adult children: Ryan (* 1978), the twins Marcel and Marcus (* 1976), and Laura and Luke. The two brothers Ryan and Marcus played among other things under their father at the United States Air Force Academy ; The latter was a very successful player. Before that he was married to Pat, the mother of the three oldest siblings Marcel, Ryan and Marcus. He and his future wife Linda have two children, Laura and Luke. He married then Patricia Anne Weir on December 20, 1969 in San Mateo , California, shortly after his time with the Oakland Clippers.

Web links

• Lou Sagastume on NASLJerseys.com (English)
• Lou Sagastume on the official Air Force Falcons website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luis Sagastume on spokeo.com , accessed November 26, 2016
2. ↑ Lou Sagastume at familysearch.org, accessed December 29, 2018
3. ^ NCAA Men's Division I Championship Brackets , accessed November 20, 2016
4. ↑ SAN FRANCISCO ALL-AMERICANS (English), accessed on November 20, 2016
5. ^ All-America Awards Div SC (1966) ( Memento from August 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on November 20, 2016
6. ↑ 1966 MEN'S SOCCER NATIONAL CHAMPIONS (English), accessed on November 20, 2016
7. ↑ ^{a b} Oakland Clippers Friendlies (English), accessed November 20, 2016
8. ^ ^{A b c d e} Lou Sagastume Honored on MPSF Anniversary Team , accessed November 20, 2016
9. ↑ 2. COACHING: Sagastume steps down at Air Force , accessed on November 20, 2016
10. ↑ Sagastume retires at Air Force; Towson extends Olszewski. ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (English), accessed November 20, 2016 
11. ↑ ^{a b c d} Doug Hill on the official Air Force Falcons website , accessed November 20, 2016
12. ↑ ^{a b} PREP NOTEBOOK: St. Mary's boys' soccer coach Lou Sagastume to step down after season ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (English), accessed November 20, 2016 
13. ↑ Boys' soccer coach of the year: Lou Sagastume, St. Mary's , accessed November 20, 2016
14. ↑ Switchbacks FC Camp Registration ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (English), accessed November 20, 2016 
15. ↑ Lou Sagastume on the official Colorado Springs Switchbacks website , accessed November 20, 2016
16. ↑ ^{a b} Marcus Sagastume on the official website of the Air Force Falcons (English), accessed on November 20, 2016
17. ↑ Luis Sagastume at myheritage.at (English), accessed on November 26, 2016