Charles antennas

Charles antennas
Personnel
birthday	November 3, 1929
place of birth	La Chaux-de-Fonds ,  Switzerland
date of death	May 20, 2000
Place of death	Les Bayards ,  Switzerland
Size	174 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1944-1952	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	179 (110)
1952-1953	FC Lausanne Sports	24 (13)
1953-1965	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	269 ​​(128)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1948-1962	Switzerland	56 (22)
1 Only league games are given.

Charles Antenen , called "Kiki", (born November 3, 1929 in La Chaux-de-Fonds , † May 20, 2000 in Les Bayards ) was a Swiss football player .

Career

Association, 1941-1965

Charles Antenen began playing football in the youth division of the football club , where he stayed from 1941 to 1965, with the exception of the 1952/53 season, when he played for Lausanne Sports . In 1949 the striker , who mostly played on the right wing or in the half-right connection, had an offer from the Roman club SS Lazio , which offered a bonus of 120,000 francs plus salary and bonuses. Rational attempts to explain why he turned down the offer failed.

His time at the club describes its golden era in which the club won all of its titles: the championships in 1954, 1955 and 1964 as well as the six cup wins in 1948, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957 and 1961. The coaches here were from 1946 to 1959 Czechoslovakian vice world champion from 1934 Jiří "Georges" Sobotka , who initially acted as a player-coach and was promoted back to the National League A under La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Karlsruhe three-time DFB Cup winner Kurt Sommerlatt was then responsible as player- coach until 1962, and finally the Franco-German player-coach Heinrich "Henri" Skiba under whom the championship of 1964 was retracted.

Overall, Charles Antenen appeared in 443 games in the National League A, in which he scored 233 goals. There are also 26 games in National League B with 18 goals.

In the 1970/71 season he was in the coaching staff of FC La Chaux-de-Fonds.

National team, 1948–1962

At the age of 18, Charles Antenen celebrated his debut in the Swiss national football team on June 20, 1948 in Zurich in a 3-3 draw against Spain. In the first football world championship after the Second World War from June 25 to July 16, 1950 in Brazil , Switzerland took part as a European representative alongside Yugoslavia, Sweden, Italy, Spain and England. "Kiki" played against Yugoslavia and Mexico. He scored one goal in both games. He paused in the sensational 2-2 draw against Brazil. The next World Cup took place in Switzerland at home in 1954. Antenen stormed in the 2-0 defeat against England, in the 4-1 in the play-off against Italy and the legendary quarter-final match on June 26 in Lausanne against Austria, which was still lost with 5-7 goals after a 3-0 lead. As a veteran and top performer, he played a key role in the successful qualification for the 1962 World Cup in the games against Belgium and Sweden in 1960 and 1961 . He played all five games and also contributed five goals. Also in the 2-1 win on November 12, 1961 in Berlin in the playoff against the 1958 runner-up, Sweden, he signed the list of goalscorers. His third participation in the World Cup in 1962 earned him three more finals against Chile, Germany and Italy. With the game on June 7, 1962 in Santiago at the Estadio Nacional against Italy, he ended his fourteen-year career in the national team. Antenen made a total of 56 appearances in the Swiss national football team and scored 22 goals.

For two decades he was a big player in the Swiss national league and a household name in Europe. Charles Antenen comes from a cycling family: He is the son of Charles Antenen senior. and nephew of Castor Notter .

successes

• 3 times Swiss champion (1953/54; 1954/55; 1963/64)
• 6 times Swiss Cup winners (1948, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961)
• 3 World Cup participations (1950, 1954, 1962)

swell

• Charles Kiki Antenen - Le Texts, Les Photos, La Video (as of 2020-04-01)
• The great European football book, Volume 2, international matches and cup finals, Sportverlag Uwe Nuttelmann, Jade, 1999, ISBN 3-930814-02-1
• 211 world's top first division goalscorers of the century, IFFHS, Wiesbaden, 1998
• WM-Enzyklopädie 1930-2006, AGON, 2002, ISBN 3-89-784-205-X