Heinrich Müller (soccer player, 1889)

Heinrich Muller
Personnel
birthday	June 4, 1889
date of death	1957
position	defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1904-1911	FC Winterthur
1911-1912	Torino FC	13 (3)
1912-1917	FC Winterthur
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1909-1913	Switzerland	11 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1934	Switzerland
1 Only league games are given.

Heinrich Müller on the master picture of the FCW from 1906 (top row, second from right)

Heinrich Müller on the master picture of the FCW from 1908 (top row, left)

Heinrich "Henry" Müller (born June 4, 1889 ; † 1957 ) was a Swiss football player , official and coach .

In his active career, he won three Swiss championships with FC Winterthur . He made eleven appearances in the national team and was a record national player for a short time in 1911 . After retiring, he worked for the Swiss Football Association and was the Swiss national coach at the 1934 World Cup . From 1913 to 1916 and 1921 to 1924 he was President of FC Winterthur.

biography

Club career

Müller was born on June 4, 1889. The right-back started playing for FC Winterthur in 1904 . As a captain belonged to the championship team of FC Winterthur in the 1905/06 season . The team repeated this success in the 1907/08 season .

Müller played almost his entire career at FC Winterthur, with the exception of the 1911/12 season when he moved to FC Turin in Italy. He came there to 13 missions and scored three goals as a defender. He then returned to FC Winterthur and completed his career there in the 1916/17 season with the club's third and so far last championship title. He is the only FC Winterthur player who has seen all three championship titles.

National team

Müller was a regular member of the Swiss national team . He played his first game on April 4, 1909 in Karlsruhe against Germany , where he was captain in this game. Except for a game against England's amateurs on April 9, 1910, when Emile Glaser first wore the captain's armband, but had to leave the armband to Müller due to injury in the 8th minute, he was the team's captain during all games. On his third appearance against Germany, he scored his only goal for the Swiss national team.

With his fifth national team game against Hungary on January 8, 1911, Müller became Switzerland's second sole record national player . However, this record was reached in the same year after four games by Pierre Colbet and exceeded six games later.

He played his last game for the national team on March 9, 1913 against France.

Functionary at the SFV

After completing his active career, he was a member of the Technical Commission of the Swiss Football Association from 1924 to 1943 , most recently as its President in 1942/43. Müller received honorary membership from the SFV.

Trainer at the 1934 World Cup

Müller was national coach of the Swiss national team for two games at the 1934 World Cup in Italy . Previously, this function had been taken over for years by the Technical Commission of the SFV, of which he was also a member.

16 teams took part in the second World Cup and the entire World Cup was played in tournament form without a preceding group phase. Switzerland was one of the unset teams that were drawn to a seeded team for the round of 16. On May 27, Switzerland beat the Netherlands and advanced to the quarter-finals. There the team met Czechoslovakia , also seeded , on May 31 , against which the national team had to admit defeat 2: 3.

Web links

• Henry Müller at the "football heroes Winterthur"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Presidents. In: FC Winterthur archive. Retrieved June 10, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Davide Rota: List of Swiss Players in Italy before 1945. RSSSF, July 11, 2001, accessed February 28, 2013 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Beat Jung (Ed.): The Nati. The history of the Swiss national football team. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-532-0 , p. 376 .
4. ↑ Germany - Switzerland 1: 0 (1: 0). IFFHS, accessed February 28, 2013 . 
5. ↑ England / Amateurs - Switzerland 6: 1 (5: 0). IFFHS, accessed February 28, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Switzerland - Germany 2: 3 (1: 1). IFFHS, accessed February 28, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Switzerland - Magyarország 2: 0 (0: 0). IFFHS, accessed February 28, 2013 .