Heinz Schneiter

Heinz Schneiter (born April 12, 1935 in Thun , Canton Bern ; † July 4, 2017 ) was a Swiss football player who made 44 international appearances with three goals in the national team from 1957 to 1966 .

Career

society

Heinz Schneiter, started his football career in his hometown at FC Thun . With FC Thun, he reached the 1955 cup final against FC La Chaux-de-Fonds . After joining Young Boys Bern he witnessed the successful series of Berne in the National League A . Four times in a row, the protégés of the German old international Albert Sing celebrated the championship in Switzerland from 1957 to 1960 . In the local Wankdorf stadium , the black and yellow were a force. The cup success came in 1958 in the replay against Grasshopper Club Zurich .

Heinz Schneiter and colleagues also demonstrated their performance in the 1959 European Cup for champions. After successes over MTK Budapest and the Aue-based SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt , they only failed in the semi-finals against the French champions Stade Reims . In the 1960 and 1961 competitions, the end came against the German champions Eintracht Frankfurt and Hamburger SV . After moving to the club of his national team-mate Ely Tacchella , Lausanne-Sports , in 1962 , he also won more titles at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise . First Heinz Schneiter won the cup against La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1964 with 2-0 goals and in 1965 the championship in the National League A in front of his old club Young Boys Bern. Even with Lausanne, the sporting performance in the 1965 European Cup Winners' Cup was noteworthy - it only failed because of the later Cup winner West Ham United . His “historic move” to Lausanne paid off with the first transfer fee for a Swiss person of over 100,000 francs. After two more rounds with Young Boys, he ended his active career as a player-coach at his hometown club FC Thun in 1969. 1970 Schneiter returned to the Young Boys' service as a coach and crisis manager.

National team

At the World Cup qualifier on March 10, 1957 in Madrid against Spain, Heinz Schneiter made his debut in the "Nati". The 2: 2 against the Spanish selection, which was peppered with international stars - Kubala, Di Stefano, Suarez, Gento - was more than a respectable success for the Swiss in front of 70,000 spectators. In the successful qualification for the 1962 World Cup in Chile, he experienced a high and a low: He was sent off in the 4-0 defeat on May 28, 1961 in Stockholm against vice world champions Sweden and scored the winning goal with a header in the decider on May 12. November 1961 in Berlin with a 2-1 success. At the World Cup in Chile, he played all three group games. In the 1: 2 defeat against Germany he scored a goal. On June 5, 1963 he was also a member of the "Nati", which suffered a severe setback against England with 1: 8 goals in Basel. Bobby Charlton distinguished himself with three goals. The games in qualifying for the 1966 World Cup in England against Northern Ireland, Albania and the Netherlands were more gratifying. The Swiss prevailed with national team captain Schneiter and thus took part in the world championship for the second time in a row. On the island, his use in the first group game against Germany on July 12, 1966 in Sheffield was his 44th and last appearance in the national team. For clear, even in the height deserved 5: 0 win the troops of coach Helmut Schoen headed Franz Beckenbauer and Helmut Haller with two goals each, Sigfried Held could even register on the scoresheet.

Personal

From 1966 to 1998, Heinz Schneiter was the head of a bank branch of Spar + Leihkasse in Bern in the Bern suburb of Bethlehem .

literature

• Beat Jung (ed.): The Nati: the history of the Swiss national football team . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen, 2006, ISBN 3-89533-532-0
• Uwe Nuttelmann: The big European football book: international matches and cup finals from over 40 countries , volume 2. Nuttelmann Sportverlag, Jade, 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 .
• Swiss football: the special issue of Blick-Sport . Ringier, Zurich, 2006/07, ISSN  1013-0667

Individual proof

1. ↑ YB mourns Heinz Schneiter . Young Boys Bern website, July 6, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017.
   Young Boys mourn Heinz Schneiter . ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. sda article in the Luzerner Zeitung , July 6, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017.