Luis Arconada

Luis Arconada
Luis Arconada (1981)
Personnel
Surname	Luis Miguel Arconada Etxarri
birthday	June 26, 1954
place of birth	San Sebastian ,  Spain
size	178 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1970	Lengokoak
1970-1974	Real Sociedad
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1972-1974	Real Sociedad B
1974-1989	Real Sociedad	414 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1972	Spain U18	4 (0)
1976	Spain amateurs	2 (0)
1977-1985	Spain	68 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Luis Miguel Arconada Etxarri (born June 26, 1954 in San Sebastián , Spain ) is a former Spanish football goalkeeper . With his club Real Sociedad , he won the Spanish championship in 1981 and 1982 and the Copa del Rey in 1987 . In the Spanish national team , he made 68 international matches from 1977 to 1985.

career

Arconada began his professional career in 1973 with Real Sociedad and stayed with this club until the end of his playing career in 1989. The 1.78 meter tall goalkeeper made his professional debut on October 22, 1975 in the 3-1 defeat in the UEFA Cup against Liverpool. In the 1979/80 season he conceded only 20 goals when he won the runner-up in 34 championship games and was awarded the Trofeo Zamora for the first time for this record. In the following years, with excellent reflexes and energetic control of the penalty area, he became an absolute favorite with the public in his hometown. Overall, he was in 551 games in the Primera División for Real Sociedad between the posts.

In the two championship successes in 1981 and 1982, he completed all 34 league games under coach Alberto Ormaetxea . He was one of the best goalkeepers in the world in the early 1980s. He played representative on December 16, 1980 at the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona in front of 100,000 spectators in a world selection against CF Barcelona. The world selection was supervised by the then national coach Jupp Derwall . The game was played for the benefit of the UNICEF World Children's Fund.

On February 25, 1981, the Basque guarded the goal of the European selection in the first half of the game in Rome against Italy. In the second half he was replaced by Toni Schumacher (1. FC Köln). In the European Cup of National Champions he failed in the 1982/83 season at the eventual winner Hamburger SV after two close games - 1: 1/2: 1 - with his club in the semifinals.

Arconada was honored three times as the best goalkeeper in Spain from 1980 to 1982 ( Trofeo Zamora ).

Arconada was the goalkeeper of the Spanish national team at the 1976 Olympic Games and a little later was also part of the squad for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina . At this World Cup he was still the substitute goalkeeper for Miguel Angel from Real Madrid , but that changed for the 1980 European Football Championship qualification . Since the tournament in Italy Arconada has been the goalkeeper and reliable support of his team. The highlight of his career was to be the 1982 World Cup in his own country. However, the Spaniards, supervised by coach José Santamaria , did not get beyond the second final round, where Spain met Germany and England .

At the European Football Championship in France in 1984 he reached the final with Spain under coach Miguel Muñoz and had what was perhaps the most unlucky moment of his career when he could not hold a free kick by Michel Platini at 0-0 and the ball under rolled his arms into the gate. Arconada played a total of 68 times for the national team and was replaced by Andoni Zubizarreta after this tournament .

At the age of 35, the business administration graduate ended his active career in the summer of 1989 and withdrew into private life.

Others

Spain's substitute goalkeeper Andrés Palop accepted the 2008 European Champion medal. He wore Arconada's original jersey from the 1984 final.

successes

• Spanish championship : 1981, 1982
• Copa del Rey : 1987, finalist 1988
• Supercopa de España : 1982
• Vice European Champion : 1984
• Ricardo Zamora Trophy : 1980, 1981, 1982

literature

• Michael Horn: Lexicon of international soccer stars. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89533-466-9 , p. 20.
• BF Hoffmann : The legendary World Cup goalkeepers. A lexicon. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-498-7 , pp. 14-16.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arconada alucinó con el gesto de Palop (Arconada went crazy with Palop's gesture) ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; El Mundo Deportivo , July 2, 2008 (span.)