Willy Kernen

Willy Kernen
Willy Kernen in 1955
Personnel
Surname	Wilhelm Kernen
birthday	August 6, 1929
place of birth	Switzerland
date of death	November 12, 2009
Place of death	Switzerland
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1945–1962	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	391 (47)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1950-1962	Switzerland	41 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1962-1963	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
1963-1966	FC Le Locle
1 Only league games are given.

Willy Kernen (born August 6, 1929 - November 12, 2009 ) was a Swiss football player and football coach . He played in the position of defender from 1939 to 1962 at FC La Chaux-de-Fonds . In 1954 and 1955 he won the Swiss football championship with the Neuchâtel team . In 1948, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957 and 1961 he won the Swiss Cup with La Chaux-de-Fonds .

career

At the age of 16, the runner and Riegelback made his debut in the Fanion team at La Chaux-de-Fonds together with Charles "Kiki" Antenen , who was of the same age . The later long-time captain was never warned or sent off in his long career. Led by the Czechoslovak Georges Sobotka , "Pioncet" Kernen belonged to the two doubles winning teams of the Jurassians in 1954 and 1955. In the first two cup wins in 1948 and 1951, Sobotka still acted as a player-coach. Teammates Olivier Eggimann , Raymond Morand , Gilbert Fesselet , Marcel Mauron , Bernard Coutaz , Tony Ruesch and the outstanding offensive player Charles Antenen were high-performing teammates in the big days of FC . La Chaux-de-Fonds was in the era of success from 1948 to 1961–1961, the sixth cup victory was celebrated with player- coach Kurt Sommerlatt - attributed to the fact that they would combine game intelligence and playfulness, technique and hardness, vision and subtlety. In contrast to Karl Rappan's bar tactics, Sobotka preferred the World Cup system made famous in England by Arsenal and Herbert Chapman. In his last championship round in 1961/62 he finished third with his club and Roberto Frigerio scored 22 goals. During the following season held cores was the coach of La Chaux-de-Fonds and finished with the team to third place in the National League A. From 1963 to 1966 he coach of FC Le Locle and led the club in the National League B .

He played 41 international matches for the Swiss national soccer team and scored one goal. He made his "Nati" debut on October 15, 1950 in Basel in the international match against the Netherlands. He was a member of the team at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, but was not used. When Germany played the first international match after the Second World War in Stuttgart on November 22, 1950, Kernen was part of the Confederate team. He also took part in the World Championships in 1954 and 1962 , but was no longer used in the 1962 finals in Chile. As a regular player at the World Cup in 1954 - he played two successful games against Italy and was active in the 2-0 defeat by England - he also played in the heated battle of Lausanne , when Switzerland lost 7-5 to Austria. Special games were his contribution to the successes on November 21, 1956 in Frankfurt in the 3-1 success against the reigning world champions Germany and on October 12, 1960 in Basel in the 6-2 win against France when striker Seppe Hügi scored five goals. His last appearance in the national team was the World Cup qualifier on November 20, 1960 in Brussels (4-2 win) against Belgium.

At the age of 35, Kernen went to school again and became a teacher. Before that he had run the Cafe "Fair-Play" in the watch metropolis.

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-Liga-SFV, 2009, ISBN 978-3-9523556-0-2

Web links

• Willy Kernen is dead
• Willy Kernen in the database of FIFA (English)