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Willy Sommer (born February 15, 1925 in Solothurn ; † July 2001 in Baden AG ) was a Swiss football player and football coach .

The trained watchmaker Willy Sommer played 99 games for FC Lengnau in the Swiss National League B from 1955 to 1959 , scoring 54 goals. He was already 30 years old when he played his first game in National League B with Lengnau. In his first season he scored four goals in 28 games and was tenth, in the follow-up season eleventh, where he scored 14 times. The best placement was fourth place 1957-58. That season he was fourth on the scorers list with 18 goals. The same number of goals was enough for him in the next season only to fifth place, while Lengnau slipped to eighth place. In the 1963-64 season, Willy Sommer played four more games in National League B, this time for FC Solothurn , with whom he acted as player- coach after relegation in 1959. Sommer, who was 38 years old at the start of the season, scored two more goals in these appearances. He stayed one more season, albeit only as a coach at the club.

From 1966 he led FC Friborg from the third division in its second second division to the National League A, where he then reached eleventh place among fourteen clubs, which ensured relegation in 1970. He then coached FC Winterthur in National League A from 1970 to 1975 , which reached ranks 6, 6, 4 and 8 in these seasons. In 1975 he reached the Cup final with Winterthur, which was lost in Bern's Wankdorf Stadium against FC Basel with 1: 2 after extra time.

From 1977 to 1981 he was with FC St. Gallen . At the beginning of the 1978-79 season, he and St. Gallen won the Swiss League Cup held between 1972 and 1982 with a 3-2 win against the reigning champions Grasshopper Club Zurich . In the further course of the season, the club finished fourth in the then held final round of the National League A, which is the best placement of the St. Gallen team in its time there. He was then the first to be voted Swiss football coach of the year . In the following season he was only tenth. The advance into the Cup final of 1977 was also a great success, but it was lost 1-0 to Berner SC Young Boys in the Bern Wankdorf Stadium . Summer's six-year term is a club record to this day. The Braunschweig and Grasshopper master trainer Helmuth Johannsen succeeded him in the summer of 1981, while he himself took over the Ticino second division club FC Lugano , where the Italian European champion from 1968, Pietro Anastasi, ended his career. In the end, the Luganer came seventh. In the middle of the following season, Sommer left the club, which was fifth at the time, and was replaced by Bruno Quadri .

Between 1983 and 1986 he coached the first division club FC Wettingen in the canton of Aargau for three full seasons, with whom he finished 8th, 11th and 12th. 1986 to 1989 and 1990–93 he was a coach at FC Young Fellows in Zurich with whom he made promotion to the fourth or third class first division in the 1988–89 season . The promotion games attracted up to 1,500 viewers.

It is also reported that in his career he made it to the first division with Breitenbach and looked after FC Grenchen , the offspring of FC Wettingen and, at the end of his career, FC Freienbach .

He himself called Eigil Nielsen , whom he coached during his time at FC Winterthur, several times "the best player I have ever coached". He died of cancer at the age of 78.

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SURNAME Summer, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss soccer player and soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn
DATE OF DEATH July 2001
Place of death Baden AG