He was a fast center forward, accurate in the air, a scorer and also a captain. Football, his religion, saw him play in seven leagues in the interior of Buenos Aires and a couple of years in the promotion of AFA.
Luis Oscar Martinwho today has the responsibility of a second World Cup as physical trainer of the AFA National Team, was born on May 2, 1967 in the city of La Plata. He is the son of Rosa and of the remembered Oscar, father who arrived from Santiago del Estero to forge a destiny in the capital of Buenos Aires.
“El Luifa”, in everyday life, a noble and lovable guy, did not stop visiting neighborhood clubs accepting to give talks ad honorem, after the coronation in Qatar and in the last Copa América.
As a child he began to play on the court in his neighborhood of Tolosa, La Plata Quinta or also known as La Favela, full of little fields, lightning tournaments and neighborhood against neighborhood. Among friends, he integrated El Napolias they called the first fantasy team, a name that honored Diego Maradona and his first times in the Italian League.
Then, he signed in Platense Amateur Soccer Leaguein 1987, for INDEX (Bearing Industry), a Gonnet factory that had formed its teams to compete and opened a field at 511 between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., near Luis’s house.
In 1989 he started to wear the yellow of the El Cruce Development Centerone of the great teams of La Plata amateurism.
And with his scoring style he began to be called up and have chances in AFA. First, in Villa San Carlos (in the old First D), The Andes (in the B Metropolitana), until the trip to play began to become a habit: Engineer White Hurricanein the Bahía Blanca League; Peñarol de Pigüé; Villarino de Chivilcoy; Watchtower and Union and Strengthboth of the missing Magdalenense League.
The love for the Platense League became greater due to his friendships, where For Ever He repatriated him as a reinforcement for the 1993 Interior Tournament; A couple of years later he found himself in Barragan Fortfrom Ensenada, where they won the title in 1996 (Martín scored the decisive goal in the final played at 1 and 57 against Sport Club de Magdalena).
He also won a pair of provincial championships with the Platense Selection in 1997 (Eastern Federation tournament, of the AFA Federal Council and then revalidated in a final with Alvear, winner of the Western Federation), directed by Carlos Sparvieri.
His last teams were Sport de Magdalena y Everton (with both he played the Argentine B tournament), Atlético Chascomúsand chose to say goodbye to his goalscoring battles at Everton, «The Dean», where he scored his 200th goal.
The coach who directed him for the most seasons was Oscar Barrosowho was one of the mentors so that the player could prepare for university and graduate in Humanities with the career that he is passionate about: physical preparation.
The Professor joined Students of La Plata and from City Bell he will make the jump to the AFA Premises where he worked alongside the technician Alejandro Saggeseand then in the coaching staff of Lionel Scaloni. That story that, as we Argentines know, has not stopped giving satisfaction since 2021, the year in which the «Scaloneta» begins to successfully tour the continental and world summit.
He is married to Anahi Moreno and is the father of two children, Dolphin y Tomás.
In this compendium of goals that we compile in Vive La Plata, goals filmed in the early days of cable in La Plata appear, with stories from Juan Pablo Weiss (The League Magazine), and Mauro Mallano y Ramiro Martinez in a broadcast that made history in the nineties.
