Georges Aeby (soccer player)

Georges Aeby (born September 21, 1913 in Friborg ; † December 15, 1999 ) was a Swiss football player who made 39 international matches and scored 13 goals for the Swiss national football team from 1936 to 1946 .

career

Associations until 1952

Georges Aeby 1940

Georges Aeby, born in Friborg, grew up in Biel and went through the first youth classes at his parent club FC Aurore Biel before joining FC Biel in 1928 . With the Red-Whites from the Gurzelen sports field, he gained his first experience in competitive football from the 1931/32 round in the new two-track national league . When a year-round championship was held throughout Switzerland for the first time in 1933/34, the fast and powerful striker stormed on the left wing of Servette FC Genève . With a goal difference of 100: 29 goals and 49 points, Geneva prevailed against rivals GC Zurich with a three-point advantage in the thirty match days and won the Swiss championship . Coach Karl Rappan was still in defense, Frank Séchehaye guarded the goal and in attack, center forward Leopold Kielholz set a record for the ages with 40 goals. Runner-up GC won the Swiss Cup on April 2, 1934 with a 2-0 win against Servette , thus preventing Aeby and his colleagues from double. The man from Biel won the second Swiss championship in the 1939/40 series with coach Andre “Trello” Abegglen . At the same time he took the crown in the top scorer list with 22 goals . The two pursuers FC Grenchen and GC Zürich were relegated to their places with an outstanding 13 and 15 point lead respectively. In 1936, 1938 and 1941 he made it to the Cup finals three times, but each time he had to leave the field as a loser. After the round of 1941/42 - Servette took third place - he broke his tent in Geneva and joined Lausanne-Sports .

In the first year, 1942/43, he took third place with the team of coach Frank Sechehaye. In the second year with the blue-whites from the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise , 1943/44, Georg Aeby celebrated the double under coach Fritz Leonhardt. The championship race was decided by Lausanne six points ahead of Servette. He won the Cup with his teammates Roger Bocquet , Olivier Eggimann and Numa Monnard on April 10, 1944 with a 3-0 win against FC Basel. In the game year 1946/47 it was enough with Lausanne to runner-up - one point behind his old parent club FC Biel - and in the cup final with coach Louis Maurer - but also in 1946 - he could not win the cup and had to be content with the final . Georges Aeby was in seven cup finals with Geneva and Lausanne.

For the 1949/50 round, the 36-year-old moved to Urania Geneva in the National League B, where he was the player-coach for two seasons in 1950/51 and 1951/52 and ended his playing career in the summer of 1952. 1952/53 he worked as a trainer at Urania.

National team, 1936 to 1946

Aeby made his debut in the Swiss national football team against Ireland on March 17, 1936 in Dublin. He formed the left wing of the "Nati" in the 1-0 defeat with the half-left Jacques Spagnoli from Lausanne-Sports. The left wing scored his first goal in the national team in his fourth appearance on April 11, 1937 in Basel against Hungary. When coach Karl Rappan first looked after the Helvetii at the international match against Austria on September 19, 1937 in Vienna and Eugène Walaschek made his debut in the "Nati", Aeby scored his second goal in the national team and he was one of the circle of players with which Rappan won for the Wanted to qualify for the 1938 World Cup in France. At the latest after the 1-1 draw on February 6, 1938 in Cologne against Germany, where Aeby had taken Switzerland 1-0 in the 38th minute, the self-confidence in their own ability was there. When Andre Abegglen also celebrated his "Nati" comeback in March, Rappan had an attack with Lauro Amadò , Eugene Walaschek, Alfred Bickel , Andre Abegglen and Georges Aeby, which met international demands and only fully closed the "bolt" Brought effectiveness. The World Cup qualification against Portugal was successful on May 1st in Milan with a 2-1 victory. The 2-1 win against England 20 days later in Zurich, where Aeby was one of the goalscorers as against Portugal, was sensational. At the World Cup, he played the two games against Germany. The first ended after extra time with a 1-1 draw and five days later, on June 9, the Confederates prevailed with 4-2 goals. Aeby made a name for itself through the following event:

“ In the replay against Grossdeutschland, Goldbrunner hit him in the face with the shoe. The Servettia was briefly passed out and was carried off the field. Team doctor Dr. Paul Martin sewed the gaping one on the right cheek. Twenty minutes later, Aeby was back in the square and became one of the heroes of Paris. "

After the World Cup, he scored two goals in a 4-2 win in Lisbon against Portugal - it was the debut of goalkeeper Erwin Ballabio - as well as in the 3-1 win in Zurich in November 1939 against world champions Italy. On May 25, 1946 he ended his career in the "Nati" with his 39th international appearance in the friendly against Scotland in Glasgow. Jacques Fatton was the successor to his left wing position .

After the Second World War, Aeby took over a restaurant in Geneva and became an innkeeper.

literature

• Beat Jung (Ed.): The Nati. The history of the Swiss national football team. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-532-0 .
• Swiss Football League (Philippe Guggisberg), 75 years of the Swiss Football League, 2009, ISBN 978-3-9523556-0-2
• International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS), Switzerland (1905–1940), international matches

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beat Jung (ed.), The Nati, The History of the Swiss National Football Team, page 345/346