Francisco Ramón Lojacono (, ; 11 December 1935 – 19 September 2002) was an
Italian Argentine
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football player and manager. A
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
, he began his playing career in Argentina with
San Lorenzo, before moving to Italy to play with
Vicenza
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Vicenza is a thr ...
,
Fiorentina
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,
Roma,
Sampdoria
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The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, ...
,
Alessandria and
A.C. Legnano
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Founded in 1913, Legnano played three seasons in Serie A and a total of eleven seasons in the top tier of the It ...
. Lojacono finished his career back in Argentina with
Gimnasia La Plata.
During his playing career Lojacono represented both
Italy
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and
Argentina
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at international level, and was part of the Argentine squad that finished third in the
1956 South American Championship
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.
He obtained eight caps with Argentina, all of which came in 1956, and eight caps with Italy between 1959 and 1962, scoring 5 goals for the latter national team.
After retiring as a player in 1972, Lojacono began a career in coaching that took him to managing a numerous Italian clubs, namely
Latina
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,
Castrovillari,
Benevento,
Livorno,
Cavese,
Barletta
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The city's territory be ...
,
Casoria
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Casoria borders the following municipalities: Afragola, Arzano, Cardito, Casalnuovo d ...
,
Salernitana
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an Italian football club based in Salerno, Campania. The original club was founded in 1919 and has been reconstituted three times in the course of its history, most recentl ...
,
Nocerina and
Akragas
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.
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1935 births
2002 deaths
Argentine men's footballers
San Lorenzo de Almagro footballers
Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata footballers
Argentina men's international footballers
Footballers from Buenos Aires
Italian men's footballers
Italy men's international footballers
Italian football managers
LR Vicenza players
ACF Fiorentina players
AS Roma players
UC Sampdoria players
US Alessandria Calcio 1912 players
AC Legnano players
Argentine Primera División players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Dual men's international footballers
Argentine football managers
Benevento Calcio managers
US Livorno 1915 managers
US Salernitana 1919 managers
ASG Nocerina managers
Men's association football midfielders
US Castrovillari Calcio managers