Luis Cubilla

Luis Cubilla
Luis Cubilla (1966)
Personnel
Surname	Luís Alberto Cubilla Almeida
birthday	March 28, 1940
place of birth	Paysandú ,  Uruguay
date of death	March 3, 2013
Place of death	Asunción ,  Paraguay
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Colón de Paysandú
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1957-1962	Club Atlético Peñarol
1962-1964	FC Barcelona	16 0(2)
1964-1968	River Plate
1969-1974	Nacional Montevideo
1975	Santiago Morning
1976	Club Atlético Defensor
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1959-1974	Uruguay	38 (11)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1977-1988	Danubio FC
1978-1980	Club Olimpia
1980	Newell's Old Boys
1981	Club Atlético Peñarol
1982	Club Olimpia
1983	Atlético Nacional
1984	River Plate
1986-1987	Danubio FC
1990	Club Olimpia
1991-1993	Uruguay
1994	Racing Club Avellaneda
1995-2002	Club Olimpia
2003	CA Talleres
2005	CSD Comunicaciones
2007	Barcelona SC Guayaquil
2009	Colegio Nacional Iquitos
1 Only league games are given.

Luis Alberto Cubilla Almeida (born March 28, 1940 in Paysandú , † March 3, 2013 in Asunción , Paraguay ) was a Uruguayan football player and coach . With the national team of his home country he took part in the World Cup finals in 1962 , 1970 and 1974 . He was the brother of Pedro Cubillas and grandfather Rodrigo Cubillas .

Career as a player

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In his youth, El Negro Cubilla, who acted as a striker, played for the club Colón de Paysandu . In 1957 he made his debut at the Montevidean club Peñarol . With the Aurinegros he won four national championships (1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961), twice the Copa Libertadores (1960 and 1961) and the World Cup (1961). Cubilla then moved to Spain to FC Barcelona in 1962, for which he also played the following year and where stars such as the two ex-Hungarians Sándor Kocsis and Zoltán Czibor , László Kubala , who had long come from Hungary, and the young Luis Suárez under coach Helenio Herrera played together . At Barcelona, ​​Cubilla won the Copa del Rey in 1963 . However, he only played 16 games (2 goals) with the Catalans in two years. In 1964 he moved on to River Plate in Buenos Aires . He was a member of the club until 1968. During his time with the Argentines, he reached with his teammates again in 1966 the three finals of the Copa Libertadores , in which Cubilla participated over the full distance. However, his team was defeated by Cubilla's former employer Peñarol. In 1969 Cubilla Nacional joined Montevideo . With the Bolsos he was again four times Uruguayan champions in a row (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972). In 1971 he and his teammates also won the Copa Libertadores and the World Cup. He completed the trophy collection the following year by winning the Copa Interamericana . At the end of his career he was still active in 1975 for the Chilean club Santiago Morning and finally for Defensor . With the Montevideans, he won his ninth Uruguayan national championship. Cubilla ended his active career in 1976 at the age of 36.

National team

Between 1959 and 1974, his brother Pedro Cubillas (1962 World Cup participant) played 38 games for Uruguay. He scored 11 goals.

In 1962 he completed his first world championship in Chile . However, the Celeste were eliminated in the preliminary round after they only won 2-1 over World Cup newcomers Colombia and lost the other games against Yugoslavia with 1: 3 and against the Soviet Union with 1: 2. Cubilla scored the 2-1 in the only win in the 75th minute of the game against Colombia, having previously won Zuluaga for Colombia and Sasía for Uruguay.

Cubilla only came to Mexico for his second World Cup in 1970 . In the preliminary round, Uruguay started with a 2-0 win over Israel , which was followed by a 0-0 win against eventual runners-up Italy , which was decisive for reaching the quarter-finals . In the decisive group game, a 0-1 defeat against Sweden was enough to advance. After defeating the USSR 1-0 after extra time in the quarter-finals , the Celeste faced eventual world champions Brazil in the semifinals . Cubilla was able to score the opening goal to make it 1-0 in the 19th minute, but the Brazilians turned the game around and finally won 3-1. In the game for third place, Uruguay then lost to Germany 0-1.

In 1974 Cubilla played his third and last world championship in Germany , but Uruguay remained insignificant and after only one point win in a 1-1 draw against Bulgaria and two defeats (0-2 against eventual runner-up Netherlands and 0-3 against Sweden) as Leader of the group in the preliminary round.

Career as a coach

After his active career, Cubilla also worked as a trainer. He was particularly successful as a supervisor of the team of the Paraguayan club Club Olimpia , which he supervised after a coaching period from 1977 to 1978 at Danubio FC. With Olimpia, which he led a total of six engagements in the course of his coaching career, he won the national championship title in 1978, 1979 and 1980. In 1979 he led the club to win the Copa Libertadores , Copa Interamericana and after successes over Malmö FF the World Cup . In 1981 he was a coach at Club Atlético Peñarol . The Montevideans won the Uruguayan championship that year. With Atlético Nacional he won the Colombian championship in 1983. From 1986 to 1987 he was a coach at Danubio FC for the second time. In 1990 he coached again Olimpia and again he managed an international double when he again won the Copa Libertadores and the Recopa Sudamericana with Club Olimpia . Cubilla held the office of Uruguayan national coach from 1991 to 1993. As such, he made his debut on June 12, 1991 with a 0-1 loss to Peru. His 27th and last international match as a coach took place on August 15, 1993. Opponents in this 1-1 draw were the Brazilian selection.

Other engagements include clubs Nacional , the Argentine River Plate , Newell's Old Boys , Racing Club Avellaneda , Centauros from Colombia, Talleres de Córdoba, Comunicaciones (Guatemala), Libertad (Paraguay), Tacuary (Paraguay) and Barcelona SC Guayaquil guided. Most recently he was the coach of the Peruvian club Colegio Nacional Iquitos . On March 3, 2013, he died of stomach cancer in a private clinic in Asunción , the capital of Paraguay . His remains are to be transferred to Montevideo, where Cubilla will find his final resting place.

Success as a player

• 2 × world cup winners
• 3 × Copa Libertadores
• 9 × Uruguayan champions
• Copa del Rey 1963

Web links

• Luis Cubilla in the database of FIFA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Trayectoria de Luis Cubilla (Spanish) in La República of October 16, 2006, accessed on June 10, 2013
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Fallció Luis Cubilla - La pelota ya lo extraña (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of March 3, 2013, accessed on March 4, 2013
3. ^ Uruguay - Record International Players on rsssf.com
4. ↑ ^{a b} Castelli es el DT n ° 56 de Danubio (Spanish) on danubio.org.uy, accessed on November 5, 2016
5. ↑ “Elegí ser sacerdote en aquella época y volvería a elegir lo mismo”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) May 13, 2013, accessed May 19, 2013  
6. ^ Marcos Silvera Antúnez: Club Atlético Peñarol - 120, “Directores Técnicos”, Ediciones El Galeón, Montevideo 2011, p. 192f - ISBN 978-9974-553-79-8
7. ↑ Uruguay - International Matches 1991-1995 in the RSSSF database . Retrieved June 10, 2013.
8. ↑ Muere Luis Cubilla, leyenda del fútbol sudamericano (Spanish) on marca.com, accessed June 10, 2013
9. ↑ Restos de Cubilla se enterrarán en Uruguay - Hasta siempre (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of March 4, 2013, accessed on March 4, 2013