André Abegglen

André Abegglen
Personnel
Surname	André "Trello" Abegglen
birthday	March 7, 1909
place of birth	Neuchâtel ,  Switzerland
date of death	November 8, 1944
Place of death	Zurich ,  Switzerland
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1924-1926	FC Cantonal Neuchâtel
1926-1927	Grasshopper Club Zurich
1927-1928	Etoile Carouge
1928-1929	FC Cantonal Neuchâtel
1929-1930	Saint-Eugène
1930-1931	Grasshopper Club Zurich
1932-1934	Grasshopper Club Zurich	26 (33)
1934-1938	FC Sochaux	61 (51)
1938-1942	Servette FC Genève (player-coach)	95 (54)
1942-1944	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds (player-manager)	19 (7)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1927-1943	Switzerland	52 (29)
1 Only league games are given.

André "Trello" Abegglen (born March 7, 1909 , † November 8, 1944 ) was a Swiss football player . Abegglen was one of the outstanding players in Switzerland in the 1930s and 1940s. Max "Xam" Abegglen , André's brother seven years older, was also a very successful Swiss national player.

The club career

Trello Abegglen began his career in 1924 at FC Cantonal Neuchâtel . For the 1926/27 season he then moved to the Grasshopper Club Zurich , where he played with his older brother Max Abegglen . This season Abegglen won his first title, the Swiss championship. Nevertheless, he moved at the end of the season back in the Romandie to Étoile Carouge . After only one season, Abegglen moved abroad for the first time, to Saint-Eugène in Algeria. But even here he only stayed one season before he returned to GC for the 1930/31 season and thus to brother Max. In the following four seasons in Zurich he was able to celebrate the Swiss championship one more time in 1931.

For the 1934/35 season Abegglen moved as a professional to FC Sochaux ; in France's Division 1, he helped Sochaux in his first season with 30 goals (André was top scorer ) to the first official championship title in the club's history. On August 25, 1935 , André Abegglen scored seven goals in the game against US Valenciennes - a record set only once (by Jean Nicolas ) in France's top division. In the season 1936/ 1937 Sochaux was only because of goal difference merely runner-up, but won the French Cup and 1938 for the second time the French championship. Abegglen was also in the final in 1937, which had the upper hand in the Coupe de France with 2-1 against Racing Strasbourg , but was only used occasionally at this time because his place in the storm center of the Sochaliens of Roger Courtois , who was also in Switzerland was born, was taken.

Therefore, "Trello" returned in the 1938/39 season to Switzerland for Servette FC Genève , where he subsequently acted as player-coach. In the 1939/40 season, he led Geneva to the Swiss championship. After four seasons in Geneva , André Abegglen moved to FC La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1942 , where he also worked as a player-coach until he died on November 8, 1944 of a train accident that had occurred while on a trip with his team.

The national player

Between November 6, 1927 and June 14, 1943 Abegglen was a member of the Swiss national football team . In total, André played 52 games for Switzerland and scored 29 goals; this makes him one of the most successful goal scorers of all time in the Swiss national team.

He was a member of the national team during the 1934 World Cup and 1938 World Cup . At the 1934 World Cup, Trello scored a goal for Switzerland in the round of 16. During the 1938 World Cup, André Abegglen shot "Grossdeutschland" out of the World Cup almost single-handedly. In the last sixteen he scored Switzerland's only goal to make it 1-1 and in the replay he scored the two winning goals to make it 4-2. Switzerland reached the quarter-finals. However, they failed here with 0: 2 to Hungary .

successes

• 2 × French football champions with FC Sochaux in 1935 and 1938
• 1 × French football cup winner with FC Sochaux 1937
• 2 × Swiss champions with GC 1927 and 1931
• 1 × Swiss champion with Servette FC Genève 1940
• 1 × top scorer in France in 1935 with 30 goals