| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alberto Losa | ||
| Date of birth | 1917 (1917) | ||
| Place of birth | Switzerland | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1938–1940 | FC Nordstern Basel | 42 | (8) |
| 1940–1941 | FC Locarno | ||
| 1941–1945 | FC Basel | 84 | (5) |
| 1945–1951 | FC Locarno | 76 | (10) |
| 1951–1952 | FC Mendrisio | 26 | (1) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Alberto Losa (born 1917) was a Swissfootballer who played in the late 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. He played asmidfielder.
Losa first played at least two seasons forNordstern Basel. He then moved for the first time toLocarno.[1]
Losa joinedBasel's first team in their1940–41 season. He made his debut for his new club in theSwiss Cup on 21 December 1941 in a home game at theLandhof that Basel won 3–0 againstYoung Boys.[2] He played his domestic league debut for the club in the home game at theLandhof on 18 January 1942 againstSchaffhausen. He scored his first goal for his club in the same game, in fact he scored twice as Basel won 11–0. His teammateErhard Grieder scored five times in that game.[3] Basel finished their season as winners of group East. The promotion play-offs were then against group West winnersFC Bern. The 1st leg was the away tie, this ended with a goalless draw. Basel won the 2nd leg at home at theLandhof 3–1 and Losa achieved Promotion with his team. In the cup Basel advanced to the final, which ended goalless after extra time and a replay was required. This was held on 25 May 1942, in theWankdorf Stadion, against the new Nationalliga champions Grasshoppers. Basel led by half time through two goals byFritz Schmidlin, but two goals from Grubenmann a third from Neukom gave the Grasshoppers a 3–2 victory. Losa played in six cup matches including the final and the replay.[4]
Between the years 1941 and 1945 Losa played a total of 119 games for Basel scoring a total of eight goals. 84 of these games were in the1. Liga and Nationalliga, 15 in theSwiss Cup and 20 were friendly games. He scored five goals in the domestic league, one in the cup and the others were scored during the test games.[5]
After his time playing for Basel Losa returned toLocarno where he stayed for five seasons. He then moved on to play forFC Mendrisio where he ended his active football playing time.
(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel)