Roger Vonlanthen

Roger Vonlanthen (born December 5, 1930 ) is a former Swiss football player who was also the coach of the Swiss national football team from March 30, 1977 to March 28, 1979 .

Career

societies

The football career of the later student of economics began in the youth of Servette Geneva . The quadrilingual French- speaking country moved to the Grasshopper Club in Zurich in 1951 . Already in the 1951/52 season he was involved in GC's double win in the Hardturm Stadium . In the round of 1952/53 he experienced the next entry into the cup final (winner: Young Boys Bern ) and in 1953/54 the runner-up behind FC La Chaux-de-Fonds . After the strong performance of the national team at the World Cup in 1954 , he got a professional offer from Inter Milan and in 1955 moved to the capital of Lombardy. In terms of sport, this adventure did not pay off for the confederate. Since the Italians believed they had signed a goal scorer and Vonlanthen was first and foremost a quick and tech-savvy passer who also preferred the offensive game, the two years at Internazionale Milan were more a mistake than a happy sporting connection. From 1957 to 1959 he played for Alessandria for two years before moving back to Switzerland. When he returned to GC he was unable to build on his old successes. At Lausanne-Sports he celebrated a presentable success again in the 1962 World Cup in Chile with the runner-up and the cup win against Bellinzona. In 1962/63 the runner-up followed again. When he was last playing at Servette Geneva, he didn't win any titles, but there were years of sporting success again. The veteran and his team made it to the Cup final twice, but Sion prevailed in 1965 and FC Zurich in 1966. In the year of the football world championship in England in 1966 , it was enough behind the double winners FC Zurich also to the runner-up. Then Roger Vonlanthen stepped down from the player stage and took over responsibility as coach.

National team

The debut in the "Nati" took place for Roger Vonlanthen on May 16, 1951 in Wrexham against Wales. He played in the 3-2 defeat at the side of Charles Antenen , Robert Ballaman , Fredy Bickel and Jacques Fatton on half-left. This was followed by a two-year break for the new international player until his next assignment. In May 1953 he came to his second international match. In the 4-2 victory of the Swiss on November 11, 1953 in Paris against France, he was used in midfield on the right connector position. Antenen stood out as a three-time goalscorer. In the preparatory game for the 1954 World Cup in his own country, he faced the team of national coach Sepp Herberger on April 24, 1954 in Basel . Fritz Walter and Hans Schäfer scored two goals each and Max Morlock contributed the fifth to the Germans' 5-3 success. After preparation in the Magglingen sports center, high above Lake Biel, Vonlanthen represented the colors of coach Karl Rappan's team in all four games at the World Cup against Italy (two games), England and Austria . Thanks to his speed and technique, he played a key role in the attack-like counter-attacks in the defensive tactics of the World Cup host. In 1957 he played in both matches in the World Cup qualification against Scotland and scored one goal each. There were defeats with 1: 2 and 2: 3 and the World Cup tournament in Sweden in 1958 took place without Switzerland. In 1960 he helped on half right in the 4-2 victory in the World Cup qualifying in Brussels on November 20 against Belgium. In Chile, at the 1962 World Cup , he played against Germany and Italy. On November 11, 1962 Vonlanthen played his 27th and last game for the Swiss national football team in the European Championship qualifier against the Netherlands.

Trainer

After the club stations Servette Geneva, Lausanne-Sports and CS Chenois, where he reached two runners-up championships with Lausanne in 1969 and 1970, Roger Vonlanthen was given responsibility for the national team in March 1977. After the 3-0 defeat in the European Championship qualifier on March 28, 1979 in Eindhoven against the Netherlands, he resigned.

Private

Vonlanthen has been married to an Italian since 1961, the father of two daughters and dual Swiss-Italian citizens. He lives in Onex in the canton of Geneva .

literature

• Roger Vonlanthen in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• The legends: Roger Vonlanthen . In: super-servette.ch (PDF).

swell

• Beat Jung (Ed.): The Nati. The history of the Swiss national football team. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-532-0 .
• Bernd Rohr , Günter Simon : Football Lexicon . The great football encyclopedia. Copress Sport, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7679-0829-8 .
• The great European football book, Volume 2, Nuttelmann Sportverlag, 1999, ISBN 3-930814-02-1
• Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs. The first division teams in Europe since 1885. 2., completely revised. Edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-163-0 .
• Special issue BLICK-Sport, Swiss Football 2006/07

1. ↑ "I would never have come out as a professional footballer." In: Migros Magazine No. 12 of March 17, 2008, p. 15, accessed on June 29, 2018.