Lautaro Germán Acosta (born 14 March 1988 in Glew, Buenos Aires, Almirante Brown Partido) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Racing de Santander on loan from Sevilla FC in La Liga, as a forward.
Acosta came through the youth system at Club Atlético Lanús, making his senior debuts at the age of 18. As the club was often forced to sell its best players, he quickly became an important part of the first team.
Acosta was part of the Lanús squad that won the 2007 Apertura tournament, the clubs first ever top division title. In May 2007, he suffered a serious cheekbone injury, and had to wear a specially-fitted face mask for two months.
On 29 May 2008, aged 20, Acosta signed for La Liga team Sevilla FC on a five-year contract, for a reported fee of €7 million, subject to a medical. Shortly after his arrival in Andalusia, he suffered a serious injury, and never fully recovered, his best output with the club being 10 league games in 2010–11 (267 minutes, only two starts).
On 4 February 2009, Acosta scored his first - and only - goal for Sevilla, in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals, a 2–1 home win against Athletic Bilbao (eventually 2–4 aggregate loss). In July 2011, he was loaned to fellow top divisioner Racing de Santander, joining compatriots Ariel Nahuelpan and Héctor Cúper (manager); he started and scored on his official debut for the Cantabrians, in a 3–4 away loss against Valencia CF.
Lautaro (Mapudungun: Lef-Traru "swift Southern Caracara") was the young Mapudungun ("Mapuche") military commander in the four year Arauco War (Araucanian War) in Chile. His people undertook to expel the Spanish colonizers. The army under Lautaro's command inflicted crushing defeats and huge death tolls on Spanish forces despite having far inferior weaponry. He was close to final victory when he was killed in battle at around 23 years of age.
Lautaro was the son of a Mapuche lonko (a chief who holds office during peacetime). He is thought to have been born in 1534. In 1546, he was captured by some Spanish colonizers. He became the personal servant of Don Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conqueror of Chile and now its Captain General. Lautaro learned the military ways and skills of the Spaniards' army by observation. He was witness to atrocities committed by the Spanish on captive Mapuche warriors.
According to the Chilean novelist Isabel Allende in her historical novel, Inés del Alma Mía, the boy Lautaro had deliberately allowed himself to be captured by the Spanish in order to learn their secrets, and made no attempt to escape until he felt he had learned enough. In any case, he fled twice, in 1550 and for good in 1552. In 1553 (the year Lautaro turned 19), the Mapuches convened to decide how to respond to the Spanish invasion. The convention decided upon war. The toqui Caupolicán chose Lautaro as vice toqui because he had served as a page in the Spanish cavalry, and thereby possessed knowledge of how to defeat the mounted conquistadors. Lautaro introduced use of horses to the Mapuche[citation needed] and designed better combat tactics. He organized a large, cohesive army—a military formation unfamiliar to the Mapuche.
Guillermo Barros Schelotto (born 4 May 1973) is a former Argentine football forward.
Barros Schelotto, nicknamed "Guille" or "Melli" (short for "mellizo", Spanish word for "twin"), played 16 years of his professional career in the Argentine Primera División (6 with Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata and 10 with Boca Juniors). With these two teams, he won a total 17 official titles (one with Gimnasia and 16 with Boca).
In 2007, Barros Schelotto left Boca Juniors for Columbus Crew in the Major League Soccer, therefore having his first experience outside his native country. The forward won another 3 titles in the United States' team, as well as two individual awards.
Barros Schelotto is planning his return to Columbus, Ohio to begin work with his new soccer academy. The Schelotto and Padula Soccer Academy is a partnership with former Columbus Crew teammate and fellow Argentinian Gino Padula.
Born with a twin brother, Gustavo, Schelotto was hence nicknamed El Mellizo ("the twin"). He started playing professionally at the end of 1991 with his hometown team Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, where he scored 45 goals in 181 matches in five seasons and in 1993 won the AFA Centenario Cup. On 14 September 1997 he transferred to Primera División Argentina powerhouse Boca Juniors, for whom he played for almost 10 years. He was considered an idol by Boca fans and in his later years at the club showed his experience whenever he stepped on the pitch. Barros Schelotto remains one of Boca's top scorers in international matches with 25 goals, just one goal behind former teammate Martín Palermo.