Ezio Loik

Ezio Loik
Personal information
Date of birth (1919-09-26)26 September 1919
Place of birth Fiume, Italian Regency of Carnaro
Date of death 4 May 1949(1949-05-04) (aged 29)
Place of death Superga, Italy
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1936–1937 Fiumana 41 (12)
1937–1940 Milan 53 (10)
1940–1942 Venezia 60 (13)
1942–1949 Torino 176 (70)
National team
1942–1949 Italy 9 (4)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Ezio Loik (26 September 1919 - 4 May 1949) was an Italian football player, who played for Torino F.C. as midfielder, and died in the 1949 Superga air disaster, along with the whole Grande Torino team.[1]

Club career

Loik was born in Fiume (then part of Italy, current Rijeka, Croatia). He played as a midfielder, debuting for U.S. Fiumana aged 17 in the 1936–37 serie C tournament. After three seasons in Serie A with A.C. Milan, he moved to Venezia, where he obtained a third place and a Coppa Italia in 1941.[1]

He moved to Torino in 1942, where he formed a notable midfield duo with Valentino Mazzola, who had also previously played for Venezia.[1]

With the Grande Torino side, Loik won five consecutive Serie A scudetti and one further Coppa Italia (1942–43), until dying with most of the team in the Superga air disaster near Turin, in May 1949, which also made up much of the Italian national team at the time.[1]

International career

Loik was also capped nine times for the Italy national football team between 1942 and 1949, scoring four goals.[2]

Honours

Venezia[1]
Torino[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Loik, Ezio" (in Italian). Enciclopedia del Calcio. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Nazionale in cifre: Loik, Ezio" (in Italian). FIGC. Retrieved 30 May 2015.


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