August Lehmann
August Lehmann ( * January 26, 1909, † September 13, 1973 ) was a Swiss football player who six times won as a player of FC Zurich, Lausanne-Sports and Grasshopper Club Zurich, the Swiss Championship and from 1930 to 1943 in the Helvetic national football team 32 has completed internationals.
Career
Clubs
The FC Zurich could in the round 1929/30, not with his third place in the East group behind local rivals GC and Vice FC Lugano for the final round - there sat the second in the western group, Servette Geneva and by collecting the Swiss Championships - Position of the six group winners and runners. August " Gusti " Lehmann but played through his achievements yet in this round than half striker in the national team. After his move to Lausanne-Sports Lehmann celebrated 1934/35 to win the championship and the Cuperfolg. In the round of 1935/36, the Blue-Whites succeeded by Pontaise stadium to defend the title. Under coach Karl Rappan came in 1939, 1942 and 1943 three more championships with the Grasshoppers and, in 1938, 1940 and 1941, three Cup successes with the team from Hardturmstraße added. These successes celebrated " Gusti " Lehmann but not more than half striker, he was changed in the defense and made for years along with Severino Minelli the " Security Lock " in the successful " latch system " of Rappan Elf.
National Team, 1930-1943
As Active from FC Zurich striker half of August " Gusti " Lehmann debuted on March 23, 1943 at the international match in Paris against France in the Swiss national football team. The debutant impressed with two goals in the 3-3 draw at the side of his FCZ teammates Willy Baumeister, Hans Nyffeler, Jacques Romberg, Adolf Spiller and Adolf Stelzer. In the spring of 1930, he completed three more appearances in the "Nati ". After that he was no longer considered several rounds in the national team. Even in the two title rounds with his new club Lausanne-Sports, 1934/35 and 1935/36, there was no continuation of his career in the country. This only happened on March 7, 1937 in Amsterdam in the 1-2 defeat against the Netherlands, where he is now but was allowed on the defender position, completing his fifth "Nati " game.
When his club coach at GCZ, Karl Rappan, from September 1937 taken over the sporting management of the national team, he transferred his two defenders Severino Minelli and " Gusti " Lehmann tactically challenging task of mutually related hedging central defender in the " latch system ". The two draws against Italy on 31 October 1937 against Germany on 6 February 1938 and the 2-1 success on May 21, 1938 in Zurich against England presented Rappan and the Swiss national football team before the World Cup 1938 in France a good testimony from. With the defensive formation Willy Huber, Minelli, Lehmann, Hermann Springer, Sirio Vernati (all players Grasshoppers ) and Ernest Lörtscher Servette Geneva had Rappan a well-established defensive network available, he already in the club training on the specific tasks in the ' Nati " could tactically as well as physical fitness, prepare. The performances at the World Cup tournament in France against Germany and Hungary confirmed the class of this team. After the success of Redcoats against England and " Great Germany " the system of Rappan was suddenly on everyone's lips. "The ' Bar' was created for those Nati ' what, Reduit ' for the army represented: a mythically symbol Swiss self -assertion ", Christian Koller writes in "Nati " book by Beat Jung.
" Correspondingly great was the veneration of the consisting of the goalkeeper and the two central defenders bolt defensive trios in the national team, which enjoyed a real hero status. About the popular trio, which had 1938 significant role in the success against Germany, wrote, Sports ' still after a quarter of a century, Huber, Minelli, Lehmann, this triumvirate is still a term synonymous with bulwark, force, hardness and shiny interaction ' (27 November 1963) "
" Gusti " Lehmann was also in the two 3:1 successes in 1939 against Hungary and Italy, as well as in the two 2:1 successes in 1941 and 1942 against Germany in the national team in action. With his 32nd international cap on 16 May 1943 in Geneva against Hungary, the 34 -year-old ended his international career.