Sebastián Losada
Personal information
Full name Sebastián Losada Bestard
Date of birth (1967-09-03) 3 September 1967
Place of birth Madrid, Spain
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1980–1985 Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1987 Real Madrid B 64 (18)
1984–1991 Real Madrid 38 (13)
1987–1988 → Español (loan) 28 (8)
1991–1992 Atlético Madrid 9 (1)
1992–1993 Sevilla 3 (0)
1993–1995 Celta 53 (12)
Total 195 (52)
International career
1983 Spain U16 5 (3)
1984–1986 Spain U18 10 (5)
1985 Spain U19 1 (0)
1985 Spain U20 5 (3)
1988–1990 Spain U21 7 (1)
1995 Spain 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sebastián Losada Bestard (born 3 September 1967) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a striker.

He amassed La Liga totals of 131 matches and 34 goals over nine seasons in representation of five teams, starting his career with Real Madrid.

Club career

A Real Madrid youth graduate, Madrid-born Losada made his first-team debut on 9 September 1984 in a 1–1 away draw against Sporting de Gijón,[1] but would not have a successful period with the capital side. He did, however, score eight La Liga goals in just 16 appearances in the 1989–90 season as Real were crowned champions,[2][3] adding the club's goal number 400 in the European Cup in a 2–2 draw at FC Tirol Innsbruck on 7 November 1990.[4][5]

In 1987–88, Losada served a loan stint with RCD Español[6] and netted eight top-division goals during the campaign, also helping the team to reach the UEFA Cup final: he scored twice in the first leg for the Catalans (3–0),[7] but missed his penalty shootout attempt in the eventual loss against Bayer 04 Leverkusen.[8]

Subsequently, Losada played for Atlético Madrid (frequently feuding with club president Jesús Gil),[9][10] Sevilla FC – where he coincided with Diego Maradona[11]– and RC Celta de Vigo.[12] After retiring at only 27 he became a lawyer, and also unsuccessfully ran for president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation in 2004.[13]

International career

Losada earned his only cap for the Spain national team on 18 January 1995, playing the second half of a 2–2 friendly draw with Uruguay in A Coruña.[14] He also appeared for the under-20s at the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship, scoring three goals in five matches for the runners-up.[15]

Honours

Real Madrid

Español

Spain U20

Individual

References

  1. ↑ 1–1: Y todos contentos (1–1: Everybody happy); Mundo Deportivo, 10 September 1984 (in Spanish)
  2. ↑ 4–0: Para el Madrid, todo fue cómodo (4–0: All easy for Madrid); Mundo Deportivo, 15 October 1989 (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ 5–2: El Real hizo bueno el pronóstico (5–2: Real delivered as promised); Mundo Deportivo, 26 February 1990 (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ Losada fue el "rey" del Tirol (Losada was "king" of Tirol); Mundo Deportivo, 8 November 1990 (in Spanish)
  5. ↑ Pla Díaz, Emilio. "Real Madrid CF – All the players in European Cups". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  6. ↑ 'El Pipiolo' Losada: "El día que debuté en la selección española decidí que me retiraba" ('El Pipiolo' Losada: "The day I made my Spain national team debut I decided I was retiring); El Confidencial, 7 May 2022 (in Spanish)
  7. ↑ ¡Y continua la "Euro-fiesta"! ("Euro-party" continues!); Mundo Deportivo, 5 May 1988 (in Spanish)
  8. 1 2 Clemente desvela que le dijo a Losada en los penaltis de Leverkusen (Clemente reveals what he told Losada in the Leverkusen penalties); Sport, 12 March 2019 (in Spanish)
  9. ↑ La década «ostentórea» (The "ostentórea" decade); El Mundo, 26 June 1997 (in Spanish)
  10. ↑ 'Ostentóreo' Gil y Gil; El Periódico de Catalunya, 8 December 2017 (in Spanish)
  11. ↑ El día en el que Maradona se enfrentó a la Ponferradina (The day Maradona faced Ponferradina); La Nueva Crónica, 25 November 2020 (in Spanish)
  12. ↑ Sebastián Losada; Yo Jugué en el Celta, 21 April 2008 (in Spanish)
  13. ↑ Losada anuncia su candidatura para presidir la federación (Losada announces candidacy as federation president); El País, 1 October 2004 (in Spanish)
  14. ↑ Con lo justo (Barely); Mundo Deportivo, 19 January 1995 (in Spanish)
  15. 1 2 3 Díez, Óscar (1 November 2014). "España en los mundiales sub'20: URSS 1985" [Spain in the under'20 World Cups: USSR 1985] (in Spanish). Cuadernos de Fútbol. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
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