Lauro Amadò

Lauro Amadò also known as Lajo ( born March 3, 1912 in Lugano, † June 6, 1971 ) was a Swiss football player who completed 54 international matches from 1935 to 1948 in the Swiss national football team and scored 21 goals in the process.

Career

Clubs

The Luganese played late 20s for the "wild " side of the restaurant " Helvetia ", before 1930 he joined FC Lugano. The 19- year-old forward won 1930/31 with the " Bianconeri " from the Stadio Comunale di Cornaredo immediately the Swiss Cup. On 10 May 1931 he won with the black-and- whites against Grasshopper Club Zurich 2-1 in the final after extra time. Prominent players were the National Player Gilardoni Gabriele, Aldo Poretti and Paul Sturzenegger.

For the purpose of language training, the import merchant then spent a year in London and was played by the amateur club Tuffnell Park. In the round of 1932/33, the island returnee for the first time in garnet red jersey of Servette FC Genève Swiss champion. Then he returned to his hometown club FC Lugano and could in the series 1937/38, celebrated his second championship win before GCZ. With 18 goals Amado led the internal scorers on - already 1934/35 he had occupied with 23 goals ranked second in the scoring charts of the National League - and was a member of this round and the successful "Nati " which in the Football World Cup 1938 France took part.

From the round of 1940/41, stormed Lauro Amado for the team of coach Karl Rappan, for the blue-white from Hardturmstraße stadium in Zurich. With the club icon by GC, Alfred Bickel, he won in 1942, 1943 and 1945, three times the championship and captured the 1943 Double winning with 31 goals and top scorer crown in the National League. The results have been further strengthened by the four Cup victories in 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1946. As a GC in the 1946/47 season in the National League A only could reach the sixth rank, the veteran again showed his eye for goal - he was known for his acrobatic direct acceptances - and won again with 19 goals scorer crown. He lived in his activity in GC but still in Ticino and is not a single training have paid over the ten years of his involvement in Zurich. Overall Amado graduated in NL 355 matches and scored 243 goals.

After end of his career he devoted himself to the game of tennis.

National Team, 1935-1948

Amado debuted on January 27, 1935 in the 0-4 defeat against Germany in Stuttgart in the national team of the Confederates. 60,000 spectators, the attackers stormed the FC Lugano on right wing and trained with his club colleague Aldo Poretti the right wing of the "Nati ". For the team of coach Otto Reich mink Edmund Conen scored three goals. In the 1938 World Cup in France, the universal in the attack deployable technicians and scorer with the guided by Karl Rappan "Nati " celebrated successes that the once developed by Rappan defensive " latch system " with counter- attacks, but also by the individual class former national team came about.

On February 6, 1938, the Swiss braved before 78,000 spectators in Cologne, the DFB team of Sepp Herberger a 1-1 draw from. Seven players from GCZ - Willy Huber, Severino Minelli, August Lehmann, Hermann Springer, Sirio Vernati, Alfred Bickel, Fritz Wagner - were doing the scaffold. The team of Ernest Lörtscher, Eugène Walaschek and the goal scorers Georges Aeby Servette Geneva and the only player of the champion team of FC Lugano from 1937/38, Lauro Amado were completed. On May 1, 1938 Amado scored in Milan the Hits 2-0 in World Cup qualifier against Portugal, which won the Swiss 2-1 and thus qualified for the World Cup finals in France.

The DFB team had a 1-1 on 24 April in Frankfurt against Portugal - compensation scorer Otto Siffling - come out and completed on 14 May in Berlin against England the dress rehearsal before the World Cup tournament. 105,000 spectators to the English guests sat confidently by 6-3 goals. The German defense was never able to strikers - Matthews, Robinson, Broome, Goulden, Bastian - to keep the Englishman. All five strikers were characterized as scorers. Eight days later, on May 21, also received the Zurich Switzerland in the English, who competed with the same line-up as against Germany in Hardturmstraße Stadium. The German referee Peco Bauwens introduced the game. With an impressive effort scored the first victory of a Swiss national football team against England. The left wing with André Abegglen and Georges Aeby cared for the two goals. The tactical variant of the back hanging center-forward " Fredi " Bickel confused the English defense and Ernest Lörtscher neutralized the dribbler Stanley Matthews and therefore held the "bar" of Karl Rappan. Amado stormed along with Walaschek on the right wing. This unexpected victory was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of "Nati " and completely changed the forecasts prior to the start of the World Cup in France, where Switzerland had to compete on 4 June in Paris against Germany. With the success of formation from England game - Huber; Minelli, Lehmann; Springer, Vernati, Lörtscher; Amado, Walaschek, Bickel, Abegglen III, Aeby - defied the Rappan - Eleven of the Herberger team a 1-1 draw after extra time off. The sensation was successful five days later completely, as the Helvetii with a 4-2 victory the next round in the World Championship succeeded. In the 75th and 78th minute goal " Trello " Abegglen the two winning goal. Without Captain Minelli and links outside Aeby the "Nati " lost on June 12 in Lille against Hungary 0-2 gates and retired from the tournament.

Amado was also impressive in the games against Italy on November 12, 1939 ( 3-1 win) and 3 March 1940 ( 1-1 draw) as well as in the two respective 2-1 success on April 20, 1941 and February 1 1942 against Germany an actor in the Swiss national football team. After the end of World War II include the games on November 11, 1945 in Zurich to Italy, where he contributed three hits to 4:4 draw, and the two hits on May 18, 1947 in Zurich against England (1:0 by Jacques Fatton ) and 17 May 1948 in Bern against Scotland (2-1) of the high points in the career of the man from Ticino in the "Nati ". With its use on December 5, 1948 in Dublin during the 1-0 win against Ireland he left at age 36 after 54 missions and 21 goals from the Länderelf.

The footballer of the 1950s had to be content with modest premiums and expenses. " Lajo " Amado received a film projector for his 50th international match. Substitute for the most measly compensation were unaffordable for the majority of the population travel abroad with their specially organized banquets.

Statistics

Clubs

Achievements

  • Swiss champion: 1933, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1945
  • Swiss Cup: 1931, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946
  • NLA scorer: 1943, 1947
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