Walter Weiler

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Walter Weiler
Personnel
birthday December 14, 1903
place of birth Winterthur ,  Switzerland
date of death May 4, 1945
Place of death Switzerland
position defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1923 SC Veltheim
1923-1926 Le Havre AC
1926-1943 Grasshopper Club Zurich
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1926-1942 Switzerland 25 (3)
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Weiler (born December 14, 1903 in Winterthur ; † May 4, 1945 ) was a Swiss football player .

Career

Walter Weiler was born on December 14, 1903 in Winterthur. Like his older brother Max , he was introduced to football by his older brother Eugen. In 1915 he was elected the first president of the newly founded SC Veltheim and his five brothers followed suit.

Walter left Veltheim at the age of 22 and moved to Le Havre AC in France. In 1926 he made his national team debut and in the same year moved back to Switzerland to the Grasshoppers, where his older brother Max played. He stayed there until the end of his career in 1943 and during this time won seven championship titles with GC (1927, 1928, 1931, 1937, 1939, 1942 and 1943) and ten cup wins (1927, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1944).

Shortly before leaving Le Havre, he took part with the national team at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris , where he won silver with the team . He was also on the squad at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and at the 1934 World Cup in Italy .

In 1944 he published his book “Football Course for Young People: Techn. U. tact. elementary school f. Football ”, the title has been translated into French and Italian.

Weiler died a year after the book was published on May 4, 1945, at the age of only 42, of heart failure during a lesson for future football coaches , which he led as an SFV instructor.

Works

  • Football course for young people: Techn. U. tact. elementary school f. Football . Swiss. Football u. Athletic verb (SFAV), 1944.

swell

  • Beat Jung: Max Weiler (September 25, 1900– September 1, 1969). Walter Weiler (December 14, 1903 - May 4, 1945) . In: Beat Jung (Ed.): The Nati. The history of the Swiss national football team. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-532-0 , p. 367-368 (encyclopedia entry).

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personal data
SURNAME Hamlet, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1945
Place of death Switzerland