Charly In-Albon

Charly In-Albon (born June 23, 1957 ) is a former Swiss football player who made 40 international appearances in the Swiss national football team between 1977 and 1986 .

Career

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In-Albon, who comes from Valais, learned to play football at FC Sion . At the age of 20, the defender celebrated his debut in the "Nati" in 1977 under coach Roger Vonlanthen . Until 1979 he played in the Stade de Tourbillon in the canton capital in the Rhone Valley and at the age of 22 moved to Zurich to the Grasshopper Club there . He made the leap from amateur to professional there and immediately earned significantly more than in Sion. In Hardturm Stadium he celebrated 1982-1984 the championship hat-trick. He was also able to win the cup three times in a row from 1988 to 1990 in the cup competition . Since the double succeeded in the 1982/83 and 1989/90 seasons, the robust defender can record four championship titles and four cup wins with GC. Through these national successes, In-Albon also experienced the competitions in the European Cup . In the championship cup, the first round could only be survived in the 1984/85 season via Honved Budapest. Juventus Turin then made it out in round two. With the cup winners, GC reached the quarter-finals in the 1989/90 season after successes over Slovan Bratislava and Torpedo Moscow, where they only failed at the later cup winner Sampdoria Genoa . After 402 games in the National League A , Charly In-Albon ended his career in the highest class in Switzerland in 1990. At the beginning of the 1990s he let his career come to an end as a player-coach at FC Winterthur and for a short time as a coach at FC Sion.

National team, 1977 to 1986

After his debut in 1977 as a 20-year-old against Finland on October 5th in Zurich, two more appointments followed in the same year. The third game was the encounter on November 16, 1977 in Stuttgart against Helmut Schön's team . At the side of Libero Pierre-Albert Chapuisat , the father of Stéphane Chapuisat , he could not convince in this game against the German strikers Rüdiger Abramczik , Klaus Fischer and Wolfgang Seel , mostly staged by Heinz Flohe , and suffered an almost five-year-old "Nati" break. Coach Paul Wolfisberg brought the rustic defender back to the Swiss team for the international match against Bulgaria on September 7, 1982 in St. Gallen. Now he was part of the national team for years. A sporting highlight was the encounter on June 17, 1983 in Basel in the friendly against Brazil. In front of 58,000 spectators, the defense with In-Albon was the guarantee for the narrow and happy 2: 1 success of the ball artists from South America. The German national team also learned the defensive skills of defenders Egli and In-Albon on April 9, 1986 in Basel under the leadership of team boss Franz Beckenbauer before the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. The men around Matthäus and Magath only came to a 1-0 victory. With the 40th international match on September 24, 1986 in Stockholm against Sweden, he ended his career in the "Nati" under coach Daniel Jeandupeux .

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• Beat Jung (Ed.): The Nati. The history of the Swiss national football team. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-532-0 .
• The great European football book, Volume 2, Nuttelmann Sportverlag, 1999, ISBN 3-930814-02-1
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
• Special issue BLICK-Sport, Swiss Football 2006/07