Agustín Lanata (c.1890-1967) was an

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player.

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, Independiente, Banfield and

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Career

Lanata began his career in Independiente, being one of the footballers who played the first match of the

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in the Primera División, the top-flight of

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. Lanata then moved to River Plate, where he stayed from 1912 to 1916, playing about forty games and scoring four goals. In 1914, Lanata won the

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with the club. That year River qualified to play the

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, which the club would win being River Plate's first international title after defeating Uruguayan team Bristol by 1-0. In 1918 Lanata played fleetingly in

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, then he went for Banfield and ended his career in the

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. His grandson, the journalist

Jorge Lanata Jorge Lanata (born 12 September 1960) is an Argentine journalist and author. He founded the newspaper ''Página 12''. He hosts ''Lanata sin filtro'' on Radio Mitre and ''Periodismo para todos'' on El Trece. He writes a column in ''Clarín (Argent ...

founded in 1987 the paper Pagina/12.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lanata, Agustin Jose Argentine footballers Footballers from Buenos Aires Sportspeople from Avellaneda Club Atlético Independiente footballers Club Atlético River Plate footballers Boca Juniors footballers Year of birth unknown 1967 deaths Argentine people of Ligurian descent Argentine people of Italian descent Men's association football defenders Year of birth uncertain