Robert Pache

Robert Pache
Pache (2nd from right) with the CA Paris team in 1920.
Personnel
birthday	September 26, 1897
place of birth	Morges ,  Switzerland
date of death	December 31, 1974
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1915-1917	FC Forward Morges
1917-1919	Servette Geneva
1919-1921	Cercle Athlétique de Paris
1921-1924	Servette Geneva
1924-1929	FSV Frankfurt
1929-1930	Red-White Frankfurt
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1921-1924	Switzerland	15 (9)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1930-1931	FC Bern
1931-1932	FC Lausanne Sports
1936-1937	Servette FC Genève
1937-1940	FC Forward Morges
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Pache (born September 26, 1897 , † December 31, 1974 ) was a Swiss football player of the 1920s who played 15 international games between 1921 and 1924 and won the silver medal at the 1924 Olympic Games . At club level, he won the Swiss football championship with Servette Geneva in 1918 and 1922, the French Cup with CA Paris 1920 and finally became German runner-up in 1925 as a player-coach with FSV Frankfurt .

Career

Robert Pache, originally from Morges , learned to play football in his hometown at Forward Morges before moving to Servette Geneva in 1917 at the age of 20 . In his first season in Geneva, 1917/18 , he won his first title, the Swiss championship, with the “Grenats” . In the finals, Geneva beat Young Boys Bern (4: 2) and FC St. Gallen with 4: 0 goals. He moved to the French capital for the 1919/20 season to Cercle Athlétique de Paris and won the French cup with the club that year. In 1921 he returned to Geneva and was again Swiss champion with Servette in 1922 . In the 1923/24 season, the regional series winner in western Switzerland again reached the final round, but could not prevail against Nordstern Basel and FC Zurich .

The offensive player celebrated his debut in the Swiss national team on November 6, 1921 in a 1-1 draw against Italy, in the 58th minute he scored the goal for the Confederates. When Switzerland defeated the Netherlands 5-0 in Bern on November 19, 1922, three other players made their debut with half-forward Max Abegglen , side runner Paul Fässler and goalkeeper Hans Pulver , who were to contribute to the upswing of the “Nati” in the next few years. In preparation for the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, the selected players were brought into shape from January by coaches Izidor Kürschner (Grasshopper), Jimmy Hogan (Young Boys) and his club coach Teddy Duckworth . The three preparatory internationals on March 23rd against France (3-0), April 21st against Denmark (2-0) and on May 18th against Hungary (4-2) were victorious and Walter Dietrich had another striker played in the squad. Pache scored the 1-0 winning goal in the 87th minute of the replay against Czechoslovakia in Paris on May 30, and in the 2-1 win against Sweden with Walter Dietrich, who also came from Morges and played Servette, and the two-time goalscorer " Xam "Abegglen was the inner trio and was also in the final against Uruguay, which was lost 3-0, for the" Nati "on the field. Winning the Olympic silver medal was the greatest sporting success in Robert Pache's career. His 15th international match on December 14, 1924 in Stuttgart against Germany (1: 1) was ultimately his last for the national team.

Shortly before, on October 2, 1924, Pache had moved to Frankfurt am Main . There he joined the FSV Frankfurt in the spring of 1925 , which had just deliberately secured the Main District Championship in 1924/25 . Pache played in the opening game of the finals for the "Süddeutsche" at the Stuttgarter Kickers for the first time for the FSV in the storm, but the game turned into a debacle and was lost 7-1. After the FSV suffered a bitter defeat after a home win over SV Wiesbaden in the second away game at VfR Mannheim with a 1: 5 and the qualification for the final round of the German championship was a long way off, coach Willi Spreng, the FSV had previously led to the championship in the Main District three times in a row, resigned and the club's board declared Pache the new trainer. Under his leadership, the FSV beat the Stuttgarter Kickers in the second leg and sensationally also the reigning German champions 1. FC Nürnberg, and was only defeated by VfR Mannheim, which secured the South German championship. By reaching third place, the Pache-Elf qualified for the final round of the German championship . There, the FSV landed their first surprise win 2-1 after extra time against Hamburger SV, then won 3-1 goals against Schwarz-Weiss Essen and finally got a goal from Pache in the semifinals on May 24th against Hertha BSC in Fürth 1-0 in the 102nd minute in the final of the German championship. Also in the final in the recently inaugurated Frankfurt Waldstadion, which was fully occupied with 40,000 spectators, against the clearly favored 1. FC Nürnberg - while only current and former national players competed for the "Club", Pache was the only player with international experience at FSV - was the Player-coach of the "Bernemer" a guarantor for the strength of the defensive. The game was finally lost after extra time with 0: 1.

In the two following seasons 1925/26 and 1926/27 , the FSV in the Main District again prevailed against the competition from neighboring Riederwald, Offenbach and Hanau, but missed qualifying for the German finals in the southern German finals, as well as in the years 1928 and 1929 , when the FSV had to give up the local leadership role to Eintracht, but the opportunity to qualify was given via the "consolation round". With the Norwegian center forward Jean-Louis Bretteville (1925) and the German national player Georg Knöpfle (1928), the FSV had signed two more "internationals" and with William Stanton and William Townley two renowned English football teachers, but a repetition of the surprise success from the year 1925 could not be enforced by this.

In 1929, Robert Pache was the main character of a sensational scandal. After it had been rumored in Bornheim for a long time that Pache could only beat his dream passports if he had coked a little before the game, he was publicly accused of taking cocaine and brought before a Frankfurt court. Pache was convicted and left the FSV in the course of this affair. At first it was said that the employee of IG Farben had been transferred to the IG subsidiary Agfa in Berlin , but a short time later he could be seen playing on the courses in the Rhine-Main region - but now in the jersey of local rivals Rot-Weiss Frankfurt .

In the following year, 1930, Pache finally returned to Switzerland, where he celebrated further successes as a coach at FC Bern and Lausanne-Sports, among others . In the late 1930s he returned to his hometown and coached the local football club FC Forward Morges there .

Web links

• Robert Pache in the database of weltfussball.de
• Robert Pache in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Biography on super-servette.ch (PDF; 49 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Un "international" des années vingt ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2009 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. (French) 
2. ↑ COUPE DE FRANCE - Season 1919 - 1920 ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2012 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. 
3. ↑ Hessian Main State Archives Section 409/3 No. 107

literature

• The golden book of Swiss football . Publishing house Domprobstei, Basel 1953
• Beat Jung (Ed.): The Nati. The history of the Swiss national football team. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-532-0 .
• Harald Schock, Christian Hinkel: One Century FSV Frankfurt 1899 e. V. (Festschrift). FSV Frankfurt 1899 e. V. (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-89784-189-4
• Entry Robert Pache. In: Hardy Grüne , Lorenz Knieriem: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 8: Player Lexicon 1890–1963. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 284.