Roger Bocquet

Roger Bocquet
Roger Bocquet in 1954
Personnel
birthday	April 9, 1921
place of birth	Geneva ,  Switzerland
date of death	March 10, 1994
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
	CS International Genève
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1939-1954	Lausanne Sports	348 (40)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1943-1954	Switzerland	48 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1962	Switzerland (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Roger Bocquet (born April 9, 1921 in Geneva ; † March 10, 1994 ) was a Swiss football player . He was a Swiss national soccer player and took part in the soccer world championships in 1950 and 1954 . In 1954 he was involved in the legendary heat battle of Lausanne against Austria , which was his last football game.

society

The defender played for CS International Genève in his youth . At the age of 18 he then moved to Lausanne-Sports . Here he played the rest of his career (1939-1954) and was twice Swiss champion and twice cup winners . Bocquet experienced his first championship success in the 1943/44 season when Lausanne won the title six points ahead of Servette Geneva. With the Cup success on April 10, 1944 with 3-0 goals against Basel, Lausanne managed the double. Bocquet's teammates in this successful series included goalkeepers Hug, Maillard, Stalder, Mathis, Sauvain, Courtois, Olivier Eggimann , Monnard and Georges Aeby . The second championship success was achieved in the 1950/51 season; this time with three points ahead of FC Chiasso. Striker Hans-Peter Friedländer was the top scorer with 22 goals. The year before, 1950, the cup had been won for the second time. In the replay, Bocquet and colleagues had prevailed on May 18, 1950 with 4-0 goals against Cantonal Neuchatel. He scored one hit. Bocquet played 348 games (40 goals) in the top division (NLA) of Switzerland.

National team

Bocquet made his first international match on May 16, 1943 in Geneva against Hungary (final score: 1: 3). He debuted on the side of Erwin Ballabio , Sirio Vernati , Alfred Bickel and Lauro Amado . On May 18, 1947 he was a member of the "Nati" who won the friendly international game in Zurich against England with Frank Swift and Billy Wright with 1-0 goals . Left winger Jacques Fatton scored the winning goal. In the 1950 World Cup, the 2-2 draw against Brazil on June 28 in Sao Paulo, with their players Moacyr Barbosa , Ademir de Menezes , Juvenal Amarijo , Baltazar and Friaça , stood out. He played a total of 48 international matches for Switzerland (2 goals) and was most recently captain of the team. He played all his team's games at the World Championships in 1950 and 1954, including the quarter-final of the 1954 World Cup against Austria, which went down in history as a heat battle in Lausanne due to the weather conditions (final score: 7: 5 for Austria). In the closing stages, Bocquet collapsed, on the one hand due to the enormous heat that other players on both teams had to contend with, and on the other hand due to a later identified brain tumor , which he survived. In his 48th international match, he and Eugène Parlier (goalkeeper), Andre Neury, Willy Kernen , Olivier Eggimann, Charles Casali , Charles Antenen , Roger Vonlanthen , Josef Hügi , Robert Ballaman and Jacques Fatton played against Austria - Gerhard Hanappi , Ernst Happel , Ernst Ocffekt , Ernst Stojaspal , Erich Probst - contested in the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise .

He played four international matches against the German national soccer team: on November 22, 1950 in Stuttgart (0: 1) in the DFB-Elf's first international match after the war; on April 15, 1951 in Zurich in a 2: 3 defeat where he was able to convert a penalty in the 55th minute; on November 9, 1952 in Augsburg (1: 5); on April 25, 1954 in Bern in a 3-5 defeat against the following world champion in 1954.

In 1962, Bocquet was assistant to the Swiss national coach Karl Rappan at the World Cup in Chile , where they could not prevail in the group stage against Germany, Chile and Italy.

successes

• 2 × Swiss champions: 1944, 1951
• 2 × Swiss cup winners: 1944, 1950 (2 further cup finals: 1946, 1947)
• 1 × quarter-finalist at a soccer world championship: 1954

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 (Ed.): 75 years of the Swiss Football League. National League SFV. 2009. ISBN 978-3-9523556-0-2 .

Web links

• Profile on rotweiss.ch