Luis Monti

Luis Monti
Luis Monti 1934
Personnel
Surname	Luis Felipe Monti
birthday	May 15, 1901
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
date of death	September 9, 1983
size	167 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1920	CA General Miter
1921	CA Huracan	4 0(0)
1922	Boca Juniors	0 0(0)
1922-1930	CA San Lorenzo	204 (40)
1923	CA Alvear
1924	CA Palermo
1925	Club Sportivo Barracas Bolívar
1931-1939	Juventus Turin	225 (50)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1924-1931	Argentina	16 0(5)
1934-1936	Italy	18 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1939-1940	US Triestina
1942	Juventus Turin
1942-1943	Varese Sportiva
1944	Varese Sportiva
1945-1947	Atalanta Bergamo
1947	Vigevano
1947-1948	CA Huracan
1949-1950	Pisa SC
1 Only league games are given.

Luis Felipe Monti (born May 15, 1901 in Buenos Aires , Argentina , † September 9, 1983 ) was an Argentine - Italian football player .

Career

Luis Monti was a midfielder who was still called a half-forward in the World Cup system and began his career with the Boca Juniors . In 1924 he made his debut in the Argentine national football team , with which he won the Copa America in 1927 and the silver medal at the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam in 1928 . With Argentina he reached the final of the Football World Cup in 1930 , which he lost to Uruguay 2: 4. On July 15, 1930, he scored the Argentine's first World Cup goal against France.

In 1931, Monti moved from Argentina to Italy for Juventus Turin . At Juve , he won the Italian championship four times in a row with the legendary Quinquennio d'Oro team between 1932 and 1935 . The successes at Juventus led him to the Italian national football team . With Italy he won the 1934 World Cup on June 10, 1934 . He is the only player to have reached a World Cup final for two nations. In November 1934 he took part in the legendary international match against England, which went down in football history as the Battle of Highbury .

successes

In the club

• Italian championship : 1931/32 , 1932/33 , 1933/34 , 1934/35
• Coppa Italia : 1937/38

In the national team

• Campeonato Sudamericano : 1927
• Silver medal at the Summer Olympics : 1928
• Vice World Champion : Football World Cup 1930
• European National Team Cup : 1933–1935
• World Champion : 1934

Web links

Commons : Luis Monti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Luis Monti in the database of weltfussball.de
• Luis Monti in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Mission data at the Italian Association (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match report on FIFA.com