Ezio Loik

Ezio Loik

Personal information
Date of birth	26 September 1919
Place of birth	Fiume, Italian Regency of Carnaro
Date of death	4 May 1949 (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. † Appearances (goals)

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

Biography

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 1936-1937 serie C tournament. After three seasons in Serie A with AC 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 (1942–1943), 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]

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

Honours

Venezia^[1]

• Coppa Italia: 1940-41

Torino^[1]

• Serie A: 1942-43, 1945-46, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1948-49
• Coppa Italia: 1942-43

References

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

External Links

• Statistics at Enciclopedia del Calcio website (Italian)