José Landazábal
Personal information
Full name José Landazábal Uriarte
Date of birth (1899-01-07)7 January 1899
Place of birth Durango, Biscay, Spain
Date of death 5 February 1970(1970-02-05) (aged 71)
Place of death Bilbao, Spain
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1909–1912 Irala-Barri FC
1912–1916 Hispania
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1916–1917 New Club
1917–1918 Athletic Club
1918–1920 FC Barcelona 53 (33)
1920–1923 FC Martinenc
1923–1924 RCD Espanyol
1924–1926 FC Martinenc
1926–1927 Gimnástico FC
1927–1928 Patria Aragón
1928–1929 SD Plentzia
1929–1930 CD Getxo
1930–1931 Hospitalenc SC
International career
1924 Catalonia 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

José Landazábal Uriarte (7 January 1899 - 5 February 1970), nicknamed Lakatos, was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward.[1] He earned his nickname Lakatos for his resemblance to the Hungarian international footballer Schlosser-Lakatos.[2]

Club career

Born in Durango, Biscay, he began to play football in the youth ranks of local clubs such as Irala-Barri FC and Hispania, and with the latter he won the Children's championship at the age of 14, doing it so while playing "with espadrilles in every game".[2] He then joined New Club, where he played a crucial role in helping them win the North second category in the 1916–17 season. At New Club, he stood out for his adapting and physical qualities, which eventually drew the attention of Athletic Club, who signed him in 1917 to replace the great Félix Zubizarreta.[2] A year later, in 1918, he joined FC Barcelona, after a very brief unsuccessful experience with another Barcelona team, Canadienses FC, which he had joined on the advice of Paco Bru. He made his debut with Barça on 15 September 1918, in a tribute match to Pere Monistrol that ended in a 2-1 win over CE Sabadell FC.[2] Lakatos formed a great attacking front with Vicente Martínez and Paulino Alcántara, which was pivotal in Barcelona's back-to-back Catalan championships and Copa del Rey finals between 1918 and 1920. Oddly, Barcelona won the 1920 final in which he did not play, but lost the 1919 final in which he played and scored in a 2-5 loss to Arenas de Getxo, courtesy of a hat-trick from Félix Sesúmaga,[3] who then joined Barcelona, which prompted his dismissal from the club in 1920, leaving the club with 53 matches and 33 goals, thirty of them in his first season.[4][5]

His next club was FC Martinenc of the Catalan second category, and played with them for 5 seasons (1920–23 and 1924–26), becoming the greatest figures of the club in the 1920s. He helped Martinenc achieve promotion to the main category at the end of the 1922-23 season, and he then helped the club win the championship for the winners of the second category after beating Esperanza de San Sebastián 4-2 in the final on 13 May 1923 at Atotxa, with Lakatos closing the scoring in the 85th minute.[2] In August 1922 he played two friendlies with Athletic Club against Real Sociedad, in which he scored two goals, and on 27 May 1923 he reappeared with Barcelona, netting in a 5-0 win over Bishop Auckland at Les Corts, in the same match Hungarian goalkeeper Ferenc Plattkó made his debut for the Catalan club. He played a second match with Barça in June, but Lakatos would develop that campaign in the ranks of RCD Espanyol.[2] Martinenc granted him a tribute match on 30 June 1926, in which they faced a Barcelona team that had the likes of Piera, Samitier and Alcántara, and shockingly, the local team thrashed the visitors 6-1, with 'Laka' scoring his last two goals as a Martinenc footballer.

He left Catalonia in 1927 to join Gimnástico de Valencia, before signing for Patria Aragón in Zaragoza, with whom he faced his former club Barcelona in the 1928 Copa del Rey; in a tie in which Lakatos scored his side's consolation goal.[2] After a couple of short spells at Plentzia, Getxo and Hospitalenc SC, he hung up his boots in 1931. He was found dead of natural causes in the pension where he lived.

International career

He earned only one cap for the Catalonia national team, which was held on 24 February 1924 against Avenç del Sport as a tribute match to Gabriel Bau.[2]

Honours

Club

Barcelona

Catalan football championship:

  • Champions (2): 1918-19 and 1919-20

Copa del Rey:

References

  1. "Lakatos, José Landazábal Uriarte - Footballer". www.bdfutbol.com. Archived from the original on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Lakatos: La fuerza del Norte" [Lakatos: The force of the North]. www.sport.es (in Spanish). 12 March 2014. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  3. "Spain - Cup 1920". RSSSF. 12 February 2001. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  4. "barca matches 1918/19". www.webdelcule.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  5. "José Landazábal Uriarte stats - FC Barcelona Players". players.fcbarcelona.com. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
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