Luigi Moro

Luigi "Lou" Paolo Moro (born April 26, 1918 in Savona , † September 30, 2009 in Burnaby ) was an Italian - Canadian football , ice hockey and lacrosse coach .

Career

Moro immigrated to the Canadian province of British Columbia with his family at the age of eleven . After being briefly active as a lacrosse player himself, he began a career as a lacrosse and ice hockey coach in the late 1930s. First he looked after the respective teams of the Navy during his military service in the Canadian Navy in World War II .

After the war, Moro worked as a butcher and gained a reputation as a respected coach in both sports and football. As an athletic coach, he accompanied the Canadian national soccer team in the 1960s on several trips abroad, including to England , Scotland and the Soviet Union in 1960. He later looked after the team in the qualifying rounds for the 1974 and 1978 World Cups . He then coached the Vancouver Whitecaps in the North American Soccer League and after its dissolution in 1984 he took over the coaching position at the newly founded successor club Vancouver 86ers in the Canadian Soccer League two years later . In addition, he has worked - often on a voluntary basis - over the years, especially in youth work for various lacrosse and youth football teams.

Moro has received many awards for his work. He was inducted into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1975, the Italian Cultural Hall of Fame in 1984 and the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 1995, and in 1973 he received the Aubrey Sanford, BC Soccer Achievement Award . Since 2000 he has also been part of the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ legacy.com: "Lou Moro" (accessed October 9, 2009)
2. ↑ ^{a b} whitecapsfc.com, "Luigi" Lou "Moro passes away at 91" (accessed on October 9, 2009)
3. ↑ thesoccerhalloffame.ca: "Builder - Lou Moro" (accessed December 21, 2015)