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André Ladner
Personal information
Date of birth (1962-05-20) 20 May 1962 (age 61)
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
until 1980 Grasshopper Club Zürich
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1985 Grasshopper Club Zürich 93 (4)
1985–1987 FC Basel 58 (3)
1987–1991 FC Lugano 132 (0)
International career
1985 Switzerland U21 1 (0)
1983–1984 Switzerland 4 (0)
Managerial career
2008–2010 FC Zürich (assistant)
2016–2017 FC Aarau (assistant)
2017–2018 FC United Zürich
2018– FC Zürich Frauen
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

André Ladner (born 20 May 1962) is a Swiss former professional and international footballer who played during the 1980s and early 1990s as defender.

Club career[edit]

Ladner played his youth football with Grasshopper Club and advanced to their first team during the 1980–81 Nationalliga A season. He played for the Grasshoppers for five seasons. The first season they were runners-up in the league and during the following seasons they were champions three times in a row. To that in the 1982–83 season they won the double, winning the Swiss Cup final 3–0 against Servette.[1]

Ladner joined FC Basel's first team in their 1985–86 season under team manager Helmut Benthaus. Ladner played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game in the St. Jakob Stadium on 31 August 1985 as Basel won 1–0 against Sion.[2] He scored his first goal for the club on 21 September in the Swiss Cup game as Basel won 9–1 against lower tier local club Concordia Basel.[3] He scored his first league goal for his club on 22 March 1986 in the away game as Basel won 2–1 against Servette and it was the winning goal of the match.[4]

He stayed with the club for two season and during this time Ladner played a total of 86 games for Basel scoring a total of six goals. 58 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, eight in the Swiss Cup and 20 were friendly games. He scored three goals in the domestic league, one in the cup and the other two were scored during the test games.[5]

Following his time with Basel Ladner moved on to play four seasons for FC Lugano before he ended his activ playing career.

International career[edit]

Ladner was called up to play for his country in the 1982–83 season. He played his debut for Switzerland on 26 October 1983 as the Swiss won 2–0 against Yugoslavia. In total he played for matches for the Swiss team. One year later he played one game for the Swiss U-21 team.

Trainer career[edit]

Ladner later obtained his trainer license and between July 2008 and June 2010 he was assistant to Bernard Challandes by Zürich. Between January 2016 and June 2017 he was assistant to Marco Schällibaum by Aarau. Between July 2017 and June 2018 Ladner was manager of FC United Zürich. Since July 2018 Ladner has been trainer for the ladies team FC Zürich Frauen.

Honours[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1982/83". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Sion 1:0 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. ^ "FC Concordia Basel - FC Basel 1:9 (0:3)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  4. ^ "Servette FC - FC Basel 1:2 (1:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  5. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "André Ladner - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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