Roberto Losada

Roberto Losada
Losada as a Kitchee player (2011)
Personal information
Full name Roberto Losada Rodríguez
Date of birth (1976-10-25) 25 October 1976
Place of birth Vigo, Spain
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Kitchee (assistant)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1997 Oviedo B 55 (23)
1996–2003 Oviedo 103 (18)
1998–1999 → Toledo (loan) 37 (8)
2002 → Mallorca (loan) 13 (4)
2003–2006 Valladolid 67 (13)
2007 Las Palmas 17 (0)
2007–2010 Lugo 95 (21)
2010–2012 Kitchee 32 (17)
Total 419 (104)
National team
2005–2008 Galicia 3 (1)
Teams managed
2012– Kitchee (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Roberto Losada Rodríguez (Chinese: 盧比度; born 25 October 1976) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward.

Over the course of seven seasons he amassed La Liga totals of 113 games and 27 goals, almost all with Real Oviedo. He also played in 124 Segunda División matches (16 goals) and spent two years in Hong Kong with Kitchee.

Football career

Losada was born in Vigo, Province of Pontevedra. Nicknamed El Chino due his facial features,[1] he made his professional debuts for Real Oviedo at just 18, as the club was also in La Liga; after two season-long loans, at CD Toledo and RCD Mallorca (the former in the second division), he returned, going on to be an important attacking member[2][3]– although mostly as a backup – as the Asturias team would eventually drop two levels in just four years.

Losada left in the 2003–04 campaign to Real Valladolid in the top flight, equalling a career-best eight goals but again being relegated. After years of intermittent use, he left in January 2007 to another side in the second level, UD Las Palmas,[4] not managing to score in his five-month spell.

In the 2007 summer, Losada returned to his native Galicia, signing with CD Lugo in division three. After three years, aged nearly 34, he had his first abroad experience, joining Hong Kong club Kitchee SC[5] and helping it win the national championship in his first season after 47 years; at the end of the campaign, he was also named Hong Kong Footballer of the Year and MVP, making the competition's Best Eleven.[6]

Losada was made Kitchee captain for 2011–12, replacing Lo Kwan Yee.[7] He announced his retirement on 26 May 2012 at nearly 36 years of age, after netting the equaliser in stoppage time of extra time in the Hong Kong FA Cup final, which his team won.

Losada immediately joined the club's coaching staff, being named compatriot Josep Gombau's assistant.

Honours

Club

Valladolid
Kitchee

Individual

References

  1. ↑ El 'Chino Losada', hombre anuncio en Hong Kong ('Chino Losada', commercial man in Hong Kong); Marca, 29 October 2011 (in Spanish)
  2. ↑ "El Oviedo sufre hasta el final" [Oviedo suffer until the end] (in Spanish). El País. 23 October 2000. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "El contragolpe del Oviedo rompió en la segunda al rey del empate" [Oviedo fast break crushed king of draws in second half] (in Spanish). ABC. 20 November 2000. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  4. ↑ Losada llega a Las Palmas para "volver a sentirme futbolista" (Losada arrives at Las Palmas to "feel a footballer again"); Marca, 19 January 2007 (in Spanish)
  5. ↑ Losada y Cancela, dos gallegos en el Barcelona chino (Losada y Cancela, two Galicians in Chinese Barcelona); La Voz de Galicia, 12 August 2010 (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ 傑志射手盧比度 膺香港足球先生; Apple Daily, 14 June 2011 (in Chinese)
  7. ↑ 盧均宜受罰 盧比度任隊長; Ming Pao, 1 September 2011 (in Chinese)
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