Agustín Lanata (c.1890–1967) was an

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player, who played for

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, Independiente, Banfield and

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Career

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

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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 1–0. In 1918, Lanata played fleetingly for

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, then he went onto Banfield and eventually ended his career with

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. His grandson, the journalist

Jorge Lanata Jorge Ernesto Lanata (12 September 1960 – 30 December 2024) was an Argentine journalist and author. He founded the newspaper ''Página 12'' in 1987, and worked on several TV programs, newspapers, magazines and documentaries. He moved to the C ...

founded in 1987 the paper Pagina/12.

References

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