André Abegglen
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | André Abegglen | ||
| Date of birth | 7 March 1909 | ||
| Place of birth | Neuchatel, Switzerland | ||
| Date of death | 8 November 1944 (aged 35) | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1926–1927 | Grasshoppers Zürich | 10 | (4) |
| 1927–1928 | Etoile Carouge | 13 | (6) |
| 1928–1929 | Cantonal Neuchâtel | 14 | (8) |
| 1930–1934 | Grasshoppers Zürich | 82 | (83) |
| 1934–1937 | Sochaux | 61 | (51) |
| 1937–1942 | Servette FC | 103 | (63) |
| 1942–1944 | FC La Chaux-de-Fonds | 37 | (25) |
| Total | 318 | (240) | |
| National team | |||
| 1927–1943 | Switzerland | 52 | (29) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1936 | Sochaux | ||
| 1937–1942 | Servette FC | ||
| 1942–1944 | FC La Chaux-de-Fonds | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
André "Trello" Abegglen (7 March 1909 – 8 November 1944) was a Swiss football forward. He played for Grasshopper Club Zürich, the French club FC Sochaux-Montbéliard and the Swiss national team, for whom he appeared in two World Cups. He is the brother of Max Abegglen and Jean Abegglen, both players of the Swiss national team.
In France, with Sochaux, he was the league champion in 1935 and 1938, and was the top goalscorer of the 1935 tournament, with 30 goals in 28 appearances.[2]
Abbeglen played in the 1934 FIFA World Cup, scoring one goal, and in the 1938 FIFA World Cup, where he scored a hat-trick in the first round replay match against Germany, won by Switzerland 4–2. In total, he scored 29 goals in 52 matches for the Swiss team.
He died in 1944, at the age of just 35.
References
- ↑ "André Abegglen". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
- ↑ L'Equipe. "Les joueurs suisses qui ont marqué le Championnat de France" (in French). L'Equipe. Retrieved 13 November 2006.
External links
- André "Trello" Abegglen – Goals in International Matches – www.rsssf.com – by Erik Garin and Roberto Mamrud, RSSSF.
- André Abegglen at worldfootball.net
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