Locatelli, Hugo

Ugo Locatelli began his career at the Brescia B series club at the age of 16 years at the club, playing the position of the center forward, stepping on the field 10 times and scoring 5 goals. Locatelli helped the club reach the A series . In the top Italian division, Locatelli made his debut in a match with Roma on September 10, 1933. The following season, Locatelli was loaned to Atalanta Club, in which, as in Brescia, he played the central striker, having played 12 games in the B series and scoring 6 goals. Returning to the “Brescia”, Locatelli was transferred from his position as center forward to the position of central midfielder, where he was “sent” by the new head coach of the club, Umberto Caligaris , who called the change of football role a “positive experience”.

“The position of the midfielder allowed me in the most complete manner in the match, to play defense, in the center of the field and use my capabilities in the attack.”

In the same season, Locatelli made his debut in the Italian national team at the Olympics , on August 3, 1936, coming on after in a match with the US team. At the Olympic tournament Lokatelli spent all 4 matches, becoming the winner of the Olympic Games.

In 1936, Locatelli moved to the Internazionale club, making his debut in the match for the Mitropy Cup on June 21 against the team of Zidenitza from Brno . Already in the second season with the new club Locatelli, for the first time in his career he became the champion of Italy , in the same "victorious" season Locatelli played his first match for the non-Olympic Italian team, on December 5, 1937 with France . The following year, Locatelli drove in the national team for the World Cup , where he spent all 4 games, and the Italians, having defeated all their rivals, Norway , France , Brazil and Hungary in the final, became the best team in the world.

“I take great pleasure in remembering the Olympic victory than winning the world championship. In my opinion, the victory at the Olympics is more important and more important, not only among football fans, but sports in general, being awarded under the Olympic flame gives an incredible feeling. To further support my position, which can only be one’s own, is the fact that when we returned to Italy, only stepping on the border of the country, we saw thousands of people waiting and welcoming us more than after four victories of the world championship. And I want to clarify one thing; A victory at the Olympics guaranteed me a “ticket to life” for every Italian podium of glory, in all kinds of sports. A ticket that says "Olympic champion" and not "World Champion". "

After winning the World Cup, Lokatelli spent three more seasons at Inter, helped the club win the Italian Cup in 1939, and a year later, and the second, for Locatelli, the Scudetto. His last game in the "Internazionale" he played on April 27, 1941, in which the Locatelli club lost the home game of Torino 0: 2.

In 1941, Locatelli moved to Juventus . He spent his first match for bianconeri on October 12 against the Pro Patria club, which ended in a 5-0 victory for Juve, and Juventus won the Italian Cup the same year, defeating Milan 4-1 in the final. In total, Juve Lokatelli played 181 matches, scoring 8 goals, he had to end his career in 1949 because of the electrocardiogram , which showed that the heart of a football player can not withstand the loads.

After that, Locatelli remained in Juventus as the head of all the youth teams of the club and stayed in this position from 1952 to 1962. And after that he worked as an observer in the youngest sections of Juve club teams.

• Olympic champion: 1936
• World Champion : 1938
• Champion of Italy : 1938, 1940
• Winner of the Italian Cup : 1939, 1942

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