Rolf Blättler

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Rolf Blättler
Personnel
birthday October 24, 1942
place of birth Uster ,  Switzerland
size 179 cm
position Attacking midfield , striker
Juniors
Years station
1956– FC Wettingen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1963 FC Wettingen
1963-1969 Grasshopper Club Zurich 143 (101)
1969-1971 FC Lugano 54 0(26)
1971-1972 FC Basel 25 00(9)
1972-1977 FC St. Gallen 110 0(38)
1977-1979 FC Luzern
1979-1983 FC Locarno
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1962-1963 Switzerland (amateurs) 7 (?) 00
1963 Switzerland (Olympic selection)
1966-1973 Switzerland 28 0(12)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1979-1983 FC Locarno ( player-coach )
1984 Switzerland U-23
1984-1986 Switzerland U-21
1986-1988 Switzerland (Olympic selection)
1 Only league games are given.

Rolf Blättler (born October 24, 1942 in Uster ) is a former Swiss football player whose greatest success was winning the Swiss championship with FC Basel in 1972. He was also used in 28 games for the Swiss national football team and was three times top scorer in the National League A.

society

In 1963 Rolf Blättler moved as a contract amateur from the Aargau club FC Wettingen to the Grasshopper Club Zurich , for which he played until 1969 and with whom he became Swiss runner- up in the 1967/68 season . During his time in Zurich, he was the top scorer in the National League A three times in a row . In 1964/65 he shared the title with Pierre Kerkhoffs , both of whom had scored 19 goals. When he was top scorer in 1965/66, Blättler had 28 goals, while in 1966/67, when he and Fritz Künzli were at the top of the top scorer list, 24 goals were required. In 1969, Blättler moved to Ticino and joined FC Lugano , whose jersey he wore for two seasons. His greatest success during this time was reaching the Swiss Cup final in 1971. There, however, Lugano failed at Servette FC Genève . At his next stop, FC Basel , he lost the cup final again in the 1971/72 season, but was able to become Swiss champions during that season with the Basel team . Blättler contributed 7 goals in 18 games to the championship of the Red-Blue. During the 1972/73 season, the offensive player moved to the east of Switzerland for FC St. Gallen . In the five seasons in which Blättler was active for St. Gallen, the club was mostly in the lower middle of the table. The greatest success in this period was participation in the final of the Swiss Cup in the 1976/77 season. There the green-whites drew the short straw against BSC Young Boys with 0: 1 and thus Blättler recorded the third lost cup final in his vita. In 1977, Blättler signed with FC Luzern , who under Albert Sing was aiming for promotion to National League A - Lucerne was relegated to National League B in 1975 . The Lucerne team only succeeded in doing this under Sing's successors Paul Wolfisberg and Josef Vogel in the 1978/79 season. After the promotion, Blättler returned to Ticino and let his active career as a player-coach at FC Locarno end there. In total, Blättler played 332 games in National League A and scored 174 goals.

National team

Blättler's work as a trainer in Locarno did not go unnoticed by his former companion Wolfisberg. When Switzerland was looking for a coach for the U-21 national team in 1984 , Wolfisberg approached Blättler and hired him as a new coach. Blättler held this office until 1986, before he was inherited by Kurt Linder .

But Blättler was also active as a player for the Swiss national team. Blättler, who was then playing for the Grasshoppers, made his debut on October 22, 1966 in a friendly against Belgium in Bruges. The following year was already the most successful of the attacker in the "Nati". Blättler scored five goals in six missions. Two of them each in the qualifying games for the 1968 European Championship against Romania (in Zurich ) and Cyprus (in Lugano ). However, Blättler was unable to take part in major tournaments and so the 14 appearances in qualifying games for European and World Championships remain Blättler's only competitive games for Switzerland. In total, Blättler played 28 international matches for the "Nati", in which he scored 12 goals.

Web links

literature

  • Jean-Pierre Malherbe, Guy De Dekker - Swiss League Players' Record, Ligue Nationale A 1933/34 to 2007/08 , Heart Books, Belgium 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Switzerland - Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs on rsssf.com, accessed on September 10, 2012
  2. ↑ Switzerland - International Matches U-23 Team on rsssf.com, accessed on September 10, 2012
  3. ↑ Switzerland - International Matches U-21 Team on rsssf.com, accessed on September 10, 2012
  4. ^ Bote vom Untersee and Rhein, number 26, April 1, 1966, page 11
  5. ^ Neue Zürcher Nachrichten , number 166, July 19, 1963, 3rd sheet, page 3
  6. ↑ Blättler's international matches on eu-football.info, accessed on September 10, 2012
  7. ↑ According to eu-football.info, which attributes the Swiss goal in the game against Italy on October 17, 1970 to him. Other sources ( rsssf.com ) have this goal as an own goal in their statistics.
personal data
SURNAME Blättler, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1942