AndrÃ© Abegglen

André ' Trello ' Abegglen (* March 7, 1909; † November 8, 1944 ) was a Swiss football player.

Abegglen counted in the 1930s and 1940s, one of the outstanding players in Switzerland. Max ' Xam ' Abegglen, seven years older brother André, was also a very successful Swiss national team.

The club career

His career began in Trello Abegglen 1924 at FC Cantonal Neuchâtel. For the season 1926/27, he moved to Grasshopper Club Zurich, where he played with his older brother Max Abegglen. This season Abegglen won his first title, namely the Swiss Championship. Nevertheless, he moved at the end of the season back in the Romandie Étoile Carouge FC. After just one season Abegglen changed for the first time abroad, namely to Saint -Eugène to Algeria. But even here, he only stayed one season before he returned for the season 1930/31 to GC and thus to brother Max. In the following four seasons in Zurich in 1931 he was able to celebrate the Swiss championship one more time.

For the season 1934/35 changed Abegglen as a professional for FC Sochaux; in France's Division 1, he helped Sochaux already in his first season with 30 goals ( André was so scorer ) for the first official championship in the club's history. On August 25, 1935 André Abegglen get in the game against U.S. Valenciennes seven goals - still a set only once ( by Jean Nicolas ) record in France's top flight. In the season 1936/1937 Sochaux was only due to goal difference merely runners, but won the French Cup in 1938 and the second time the French championship. Abegglen was in 1937 in the Endspielelf, the 2-1 had the upper hand in the Coupe de France against Racing Strasbourg, arrived at this time, however, only occasionally used, because his place in the center of the storm Sochaliens by Roger Courtois, who is also in was born in Switzerland, was taken.

Therefore, " Trello " returned in the season 1938/39, to Switzerland for Servette FC Genève, where he served as player-coach in the sequence. In the 1939/40 season, he led the Geneva to the Swiss championship. After four seasons in Geneva André Abegglen moved in 1942 to FC La Chaux -de-Fonds, where he also served as player-manager until he died on 8 November 1944, the result of a train accident that had occurred on a trip with his team.

The National Players

Between November 6, 1927 and June 14, 1943 Abegglen belonged to the squad of the Swiss national football team. Overall, André played 52 games for Switzerland and scored 29 goals; that he is one of the top scorers of all time in the Swiss national team.

He was during the football World Cup in 1934 and during the football World Cup in 1938 the national squad. In the 1934 World Cup in the second round Trello scored a goal for Switzerland. During the 1938 World Cup André Abegglen Germany shot almost single-handedly from the World Cup tournament. In the second round, he scored the only goal for Switzerland 1:1 Final and replay he scored the two winning goal to the final result of 4:2. Switzerland thus reached the quarterfinals. However, it failed here 0-2 to Hungary.

Debut: November 6, 1927 in Zurich Switzerland - Sweden 2:2
Farewell: June 14, 1943 Sweden - Switzerland 1-0 in Stockholm

World Cup: 5 games - 4 goals
Statistics: 52 games - 29 goals

Achievements

2 x French Football champion with FC Sochaux in 1935 and 1938.
1 x French Football Cup winner with FC Sochaux 1937.
2 x Swiss champion with GC in 1927 and 1931.
1 x Swiss champions Servette FC Genève 1940.
1 x top scorer in 1935 in France with 30 goals.

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