Lauro Amadò

Lauro Amadò also known as Laio (born March 3, 1912 in Lugano ; † June 6, 1971 ) was a Swiss football player who played 54 international matches for the Swiss national football team from 1935 to 1948 , scoring 21 goals.

career

societies

The Luganese played for the team at the restaurant "Helvetia" in the late 1920s, and in 1930 he joined FC Lugano . The 19-year-old attacker, known for his acrobatic direct acceptance, won the Swiss Cup straight away in 1930/31 with the "Bianconeri" from the Stadio Comunale di Cornaredo . On May 10, 1931, he won the final with the black and whites against Grasshopper Club Zurich with 2-1 goals after extra time. Prominent players were the national players Gabriele Gilardoni , Aldo Poretti and Paul Sturzenegger .

For the purpose of language training, the importer then spent a year in London, playing at the amateur club Tuffnell Park. In the 1932/33 round he became Swiss champions for the first time with Servette FC Genève . Then he returned to his hometown club FC Lugano and was able to celebrate his second championship win in front of GCZ in the 1937/38 series. With 18 goals Amado led the internal goalscorer list - already in 1934/35 he had taken second place in the goalscoring list of the National League with 23 goals - and in this round he was also a member of the successful "Nati", which participated in the 1938 World Cup in France participated.

From the 1940/41 round, Lauro Amado stormed for the team of coach Karl Rappan for the blue-whites from the Hardturm stadium in Zurich. With Alfred Bickel he won the championship three times in 1942, 1943 and 1945 and was also the top scorer in the national league in 1943 with a double win with 31 goals . The successes were expanded through the four cup victories in 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1946. When GC only reached sixth place in the National League A in the 1946/47 season, he was again the top scorer's crown with 19 hits. During his activity at GC, he continued to live in Ticino and is said not to have participated in a single training session in the ten years of his engagement in Zurich. Amado played a total of 355 games in the NL and scored 243 goals. After the end of his career, he devoted himself to tennis.

National team, 1935 to 1948

Amado made his debut on January 27, 1935 in the 4-0 defeat in Stuttgart against Germany in the Swiss national team. In front of 60,000 spectators, the FC Lugano attacker stormed the right wing and formed the right wing of the "Nati" with his club colleague Aldo Poretti . For the team of Empire coach Otto Mink scored Edmund Conen three goals. In the year of the 1938 World Cup in France, the technician and goalscorer, who can be used universally in attack, celebrated successes with the "Nati" led by Karl Rappan, once through the defensive "bolt system" developed by Rappan with counter attacks, but also through the individual class of then national team came about.

On February 6, 1938, in front of 78,000 spectators in Cologne, the Swiss defied Sepp Herberger's DFB team in a 1-1 draw. Seven players from GCZ - Willy Huber , Severino Minelli , August Lehmann , Hermann Springer , Sirio Vernati , Alfred Bickel , Fritz Wagner - formed the framework. The team was completed by Ernest Lörtscher , Eugène Walaschek and the goalscorer Georges Aeby from Servette Geneva as well as the only player in the championship team of FC Lugano from 1937/38, Lauro Amado. On May 1, 1938, Amado scored the goal in Milan for a 2-0 lead in the World Cup qualifier against Portugal, which the Confederates won 2-1 and thus qualified for the World Cup finals in France.

The DFB team did not get past a 1-1 equalizer against Portugal against Portugal on April 24th - equalizer Otto Siffling - and completed the dress rehearsal before the World Cup tournament on May 14th in Berlin against England. In front of 105,000 spectators, the English guests prevailed with 6: 3 goals. The German defense was never able to hold the strikers - Matthews, Robinson, Broome, Goulden, Bastian - the English. All five strikers distinguished themselves as goal scorers. Eight days later, on May 21, Switzerland also received the English in Zurich, who competed with the same line-up as against Germany in the Hardturm Stadium. The German referee Peco Bauwens directed the game. The first victory of a Swiss national football team against England was achieved with an impressive performance. The left wing with André Abegglen and Georges Aeby provided the two hits. The tactical variant of the backward center forward "Fredi" Bickel confused the English defense and Ernest Lörtscher neutralized the dribble artist Stanley Matthews and thus the "bolt" held by Karl Rappan. Amado stormed together with Walaschek on the right wing. This unexpected victory turned into one of the greatest triumphs in the history of the "Nati" and completely changed the prognoses before the start of the World Cup in France, where Switzerland had to face Germany on June 4th in Paris. With the successful formation from Englandspiel - Huber; Minelli, Lehmann; Springer, Vernati, Lörtscher; Amado, Walaschek, Bickel, Abegglen III, Aeby - the Herberger team's Rappan-Elf defied a 1-1 draw after extra time. The sensation was completely successful five days later when the Helveten managed to advance in the world championship with a 4-2 victory. "Trello" Abegglen scored the two winning goals in the 75th and 78th minutes. Without captain Minelli and left wing Aeby, the "Nati" lost against Hungary on June 12th in Lille with 0-2 goals and were eliminated from the tournament.

Amado was also in the impressive games against Italy on November 12, 1939 (3: 1 victory) and March 3, 1940 (1: 1 draw) as well as in the two respective 2: 1 successes on April 20, 1941 and February 1, 1942, a player in the Swiss national football team against Germany. After the end of the Second World War, the games on November 11, 1945 in Zurich against Italy, where he contributed three goals to the 4-4 draw, and the two successes on May 18, 1947 in Zurich against England (1-0 through Jacques Fatton ) and May 17, 1948 in Bern against Scotland (2-1) to the high points of the career of the man from Ticino in the "Nati". With his use on December 5, 1948 in Dublin in the 1-0 win against Ireland, he said goodbye at the age of 36 after 54 missions and 21 goals from the national team.

The footballers of the 1950s had to be content with modest bonuses and expenses. "Lajo" Amado received a film projector for his 50th international match. The replacement for the mostly measly compensation was the unaffordable for the majority of the population trips abroad with their specially organized banquets.

statistics

societies

• 1930–1932 FC Lugano
• 1932-1934 Servette FC
• 1934–1940 FC Lugano
• 1940–1949 Grasshopper Club Zurich

successes

• Swiss champions: 1933, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1945
• Swiss Cup: 1931, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946
• NLA top scorer: 1943, 1947

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. P. 346.
2. ↑ Beat Jung (Ed.): The Nati. P. 111.