Luis Regueiro

Luis Regueiro Pagola (born July 1, 1908 in Irún , † December 6, 1995 in Mexico City ), also known by the nickname Corzo ( Spanish for deer ), was a Spanish football player of Basque origin on the position of the striker . He is the younger brother of Pedro Regueiro and the older brother of Tomás Regueiro , both of whom were also football players. He is also the father of the multiple Mexican international Luis Regueiro Urquiola .

Career

Regueiro began his active career in his hometown with Real Unión de Irún . With the Basques he won the Copa del Rey in the 1927 season . In the summer of 1931, the technically gifted winger finally moved to Real Madrid , with whom he was able to celebrate two championship titles ( 1931/32 , 1932/33 ) and as many successes in the cup ( 1934 , 1936 ). From 1936, the Basque Country regional team went on a trip abroad to escape the turmoil of the Spanish civil war , first to France and later to Mexico , where he was runner-up in the Mexican league in the 1938/39 season . Between 1939 and 1942 he played for the Mexican club CF Asturias before ending his career with Club América between 1942 and 1944 . Luis Regueiro stayed in Mexico, where he died in 1995.

Luis Regueiro was a member of the Spanish national football team at the 1928 Olympic Games , where they reached sixth place, and the 1934 World Cup in Italy at the Spain in the quarter-finals, after a very polemical replay, was eliminated against the host country.

↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo II, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, pp. 350f
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