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UEFA European Football Championship Star 1964: Luis Suarez
A black and white photo in the 1964 archives shows two men from Galicia facing each other. A small man is bowing respectfully to an upright man wearing a uniform. The one comes from La Coruna, the other from Ferrol. The smaller of the two is the professional footballer Luis Suárez Miramontes, who, at the moment the picture was taken, is being congratulated by the seemingly unapproachable General Franco with a beaming smile on his face in the “El Pardo Palace” in Madrid. Franco was not to be denied the chance of congratulating the idol of many Spaniards after the greatest achievement in the history of Spanish football at an official ceremony.
Four years previously the dictatorship had prevented a similar scene from even taking place. 1960 had been a big year for Spanish football. It marked the first time that the “European Cup of Nations”, which was to become the UEFA European Football Championship, was competed for. Spain were the favourites as they had players of the calibre of the great Luis Suarez in their line-up. The star at champions Barcelona, he was voted Europe’s Player of the Year in 1960.
But the feared Franco thwarted the plans of Spanish football fans and the national team. After wins (4-2 and 3-0) against Poland in round of the last 16, the dictator did not allow the Spanish national eleven to take the field for the first leg of the quarterfinals against Russia in Moscow. In the time of the “Cold War” between East and West, right wing Franco, did not consider it appropriate to play football against the communist Soviet side. He therefore probably denied Luis Suarez from enjoying a major success as Spain was duly eliminated. It left the Soviet Union to go through to the finals of the new competition.
Everything was different in the second European Nations Cup. But on the way to winning the cup in 1964, the Spanish were no longer as outstanding as they had been. They struggled in qualifying but still beat Romania, Northern Ireland and Ireland in succession and were then awarded the right to hold the finals on home soil. The Spanish team was given a new look after the FIFA World Cup™ disaster in 1962: coach Jose Villalonga, who was also the Atletico Madrid coach, ignored all the naturalised foreigners such as Alfredo di Stefano, Jose Santamaria and Ferenc Puskas. At times the man from the capital formed his team around the “legionaries” Luis C. Del Sol (Juventus) and Suarez (Inter Milan).
After he had named his players for the finals in Madrid and Barcelona, the only player still remaining from his star studded side was Suarez. Del Sol sat in the stands. Suarez took hold of the reins after he had missed the qualifying matches. His selection was not without a little controversy. In 1961 Suarez was transferred for the then record sum of ₤142,000 from Barcelona to Inter Milan. Worshipped up to then, the public’s anger now rained down on “Luisito”. The Spanish fans turned on their former favourite player calling him “Luis, the Italian”. Back then players moved clubs far more seldom that they do today.
But this “Italian” became the heart and soul of the Spanish team. He was also its creative genius. The Spanish Football Association had Suarez specially flown to each match with a private charter machine from Italy. And it was well worth it. In the semifinal Suarez provided the pass for right winger Amancio to score the winning goal in the 2-1 win against Hungary. In the final against the Soviet Union the then 29-year-old carved out both goals to gave the Spanish side a 2-1 win. The USSR keeper Lev Jaschin’s spell had been broken. Spain’s brilliant footballers had succeeded in winning a major title with their national for the first and only time up to the present day. 120,000 spectators in “Bernabeu” celebrated “Luis, the Spaniard” once more. One month earlier, Suarez had won the European Cup with Inter – after beating Real Madrid 3-1.
The little boy, who was born on 2 May 1935 and whose career began in the La Coruna sand dunes, had become a national hero. “Luisito’s” father was a butcher, who had two sons – the big, strong and loud Pepino and the fragile, skinny and quiet Luis.
Nobody imagined then that the “little coward” Luis Suarez from the amateur club “Hercules” would one day land up at clubs like Deportivo La Coruna, Barcelona, Inter Milan and Sampdoria. He moved from Deportivo to “Barca” in 1954, from Barcelona to Inter in 1961, for whom he played 328 games (55 goals) and with whom he won the European Cup in 1964 and 1965 (1-0 against Benfica).
The family father was capped on 32 occasions for Spain (1957 to 1966) and scored 13 goals. Helenio Herrera, the great coach and catenaccio perfectionist – he took Suarez with him to Inter – once said of his protégé: “Inter is great but Suarez is the prophet.” In Herrera’s out and out defensive style of football, Suarez’s role was to provide the ideas when the team was going forwards. The attacking genius with a perfect technique had a fitting nickname for a playmaker, namely “the Architect”. Weighing in at 72 kg, the 1.78 metre magician was often a brilliant director of the Spanish team’s play. Suarez’s speciality was dummies sold with the gracefulness of a matador.
In 1988, Suarez landed himself the job on the bench as the coach of Spain’s national team for three years when he also led the team to the 1990 FIFA World Cup™ finals in Italy, his old domain. He was also the Inter coach on three occasions between 1974 and 1995. But Suarez was also unable in 1990 to do anything about the fact that the FIFA World Cup was never something for Spanish national teams. In La Coruna they still call Luis Suarez Miramontes “our great son” right up to the present day. The man bought a clothing factory and invested money in bonds and property. But football always remained his great love, just like it once was on the beach of his home town on the Atlantic coast.
[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door tong80 op 13-07-2007 00:37:04 ]
A black and white photo in the 1964 archives shows two men from Galicia facing each other. A small man is bowing respectfully to an upright man wearing a uniform. The one comes from La Coruna, the other from Ferrol. The smaller of the two is the professional footballer Luis Suárez Miramontes, who, at the moment the picture was taken, is being congratulated by the seemingly unapproachable General Franco with a beaming smile on his face in the “El Pardo Palace” in Madrid. Franco was not to be denied the chance of congratulating the idol of many Spaniards after the greatest achievement in the history of Spanish football at an official ceremony.
Four years previously the dictatorship had prevented a similar scene from even taking place. 1960 had been a big year for Spanish football. It marked the first time that the “European Cup of Nations”, which was to become the UEFA European Football Championship, was competed for. Spain were the favourites as they had players of the calibre of the great Luis Suarez in their line-up. The star at champions Barcelona, he was voted Europe’s Player of the Year in 1960.
But the feared Franco thwarted the plans of Spanish football fans and the national team. After wins (4-2 and 3-0) against Poland in round of the last 16, the dictator did not allow the Spanish national eleven to take the field for the first leg of the quarterfinals against Russia in Moscow. In the time of the “Cold War” between East and West, right wing Franco, did not consider it appropriate to play football against the communist Soviet side. He therefore probably denied Luis Suarez from enjoying a major success as Spain was duly eliminated. It left the Soviet Union to go through to the finals of the new competition.
Everything was different in the second European Nations Cup. But on the way to winning the cup in 1964, the Spanish were no longer as outstanding as they had been. They struggled in qualifying but still beat Romania, Northern Ireland and Ireland in succession and were then awarded the right to hold the finals on home soil. The Spanish team was given a new look after the FIFA World Cup™ disaster in 1962: coach Jose Villalonga, who was also the Atletico Madrid coach, ignored all the naturalised foreigners such as Alfredo di Stefano, Jose Santamaria and Ferenc Puskas. At times the man from the capital formed his team around the “legionaries” Luis C. Del Sol (Juventus) and Suarez (Inter Milan).
After he had named his players for the finals in Madrid and Barcelona, the only player still remaining from his star studded side was Suarez. Del Sol sat in the stands. Suarez took hold of the reins after he had missed the qualifying matches. His selection was not without a little controversy. In 1961 Suarez was transferred for the then record sum of ₤142,000 from Barcelona to Inter Milan. Worshipped up to then, the public’s anger now rained down on “Luisito”. The Spanish fans turned on their former favourite player calling him “Luis, the Italian”. Back then players moved clubs far more seldom that they do today.
But this “Italian” became the heart and soul of the Spanish team. He was also its creative genius. The Spanish Football Association had Suarez specially flown to each match with a private charter machine from Italy. And it was well worth it. In the semifinal Suarez provided the pass for right winger Amancio to score the winning goal in the 2-1 win against Hungary. In the final against the Soviet Union the then 29-year-old carved out both goals to gave the Spanish side a 2-1 win. The USSR keeper Lev Jaschin’s spell had been broken. Spain’s brilliant footballers had succeeded in winning a major title with their national for the first and only time up to the present day. 120,000 spectators in “Bernabeu” celebrated “Luis, the Spaniard” once more. One month earlier, Suarez had won the European Cup with Inter – after beating Real Madrid 3-1.
The little boy, who was born on 2 May 1935 and whose career began in the La Coruna sand dunes, had become a national hero. “Luisito’s” father was a butcher, who had two sons – the big, strong and loud Pepino and the fragile, skinny and quiet Luis.
Nobody imagined then that the “little coward” Luis Suarez from the amateur club “Hercules” would one day land up at clubs like Deportivo La Coruna, Barcelona, Inter Milan and Sampdoria. He moved from Deportivo to “Barca” in 1954, from Barcelona to Inter in 1961, for whom he played 328 games (55 goals) and with whom he won the European Cup in 1964 and 1965 (1-0 against Benfica).
The family father was capped on 32 occasions for Spain (1957 to 1966) and scored 13 goals. Helenio Herrera, the great coach and catenaccio perfectionist – he took Suarez with him to Inter – once said of his protégé: “Inter is great but Suarez is the prophet.” In Herrera’s out and out defensive style of football, Suarez’s role was to provide the ideas when the team was going forwards. The attacking genius with a perfect technique had a fitting nickname for a playmaker, namely “the Architect”. Weighing in at 72 kg, the 1.78 metre magician was often a brilliant director of the Spanish team’s play. Suarez’s speciality was dummies sold with the gracefulness of a matador.
In 1988, Suarez landed himself the job on the bench as the coach of Spain’s national team for three years when he also led the team to the 1990 FIFA World Cup™ finals in Italy, his old domain. He was also the Inter coach on three occasions between 1974 and 1995. But Suarez was also unable in 1990 to do anything about the fact that the FIFA World Cup was never something for Spanish national teams. In La Coruna they still call Luis Suarez Miramontes “our great son” right up to the present day. The man bought a clothing factory and invested money in bonds and property. But football always remained his great love, just like it once was on the beach of his home town on the Atlantic coast.
[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door tong80 op 13-07-2007 00:37:04 ]
Ik noem een Tony van Heemschut,een Loeki Knol,een Brammetje Biesterveld en natuurlijk een Japie Stobbe !
Kan ik hier ook vragen stellen als bv wie was de eerste voetballer die rood kreeg op 5 WK's geleden ?quote:Het vergeten voetballers topic.
De oude oude layout was veel beter!!
vosss is de naam,
met dubbel s welteverstaan.
vosss is de naam,
met dubbel s welteverstaan.
Dat ben ik namelijk vergeten
De oude oude layout was veel beter!!
vosss is de naam,
met dubbel s welteverstaan.
vosss is de naam,
met dubbel s welteverstaan.
Van mij mag allesquote:Op vrijdag 13 juli 2007 00:32 schreef vosss het volgende:
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Kan ik hier ook vragen stellen als bv wie was de eerste voetballer die rood kreeg op 5 WK's geleden ?
Ik noem een Tony van Heemschut,een Loeki Knol,een Brammetje Biesterveld en natuurlijk een Japie Stobbe !
De vergeten voetballers van vroeger (plaatjes) .
Mede mogelijk gemaakt door:
Handige Voetbal Linkjes! (met uitgebreide topiclijst)
.Mede mogelijk gemaakt door:
Handige Voetbal Linkjes! (met uitgebreide topiclijst)
Achter-elkaar-bezochte-Ajax-thuiswedstrijden-meter: [b]29[/b].
[b]Laatste wedstrijd:[/b] FC Timişoara. [b]Volgende:[/b] ADO Den Haag.
Ray's Statshoekje - 2009/2010.
[b]Laatste wedstrijd:[/b] FC Timişoara. [b]Volgende:[/b] ADO Den Haag.
Ray's Statshoekje - 2009/2010.
