Georges Aeby

Georges Aeby ( born September 21, 1913 in Fribourg, † 15 December 1999) was a Swiss football player for the Swiss national football team completed 39 international matches from 1936 to 1946 and scored 13 goals.

Career

Clubs until 1952

Born in Fribourg Georges Aeby grew up in Biel and went through in his parent club FC Biel Aurore, the first youth classes before 1928 FC Biel joined. In the Red - White from the sports ground Gurzelen he collected from the round 1931/32 in the new two-pronged National League first experiences in the power of football. As for round 1933/34, a Switzerland far discharged all-season championship was conducted for the first time, stormed the fast and powerful shot striker on the left wing of Servette FC Genève. With the goal difference of 100:29 gates and 49 points, Geneva sat in the thirty game days against competitors GC Zurich by three points and won by the Swiss Championship. Coach Karl Rappan ran on in defense, Frank SECHEHAYE guarded the gate and attack presented Striker Leopold Kiel wood with 40 goals set a record for eternity on. But runner- GC won on 2 April 1934 with a 2-0 win against Servette of the Swiss Cup and thus prevented the double of Aeby and colleagues. The man from Biel won with coach Andre " Trello " Abegglen in the series 1939/40, the second Swiss Championship. At the same time he won with 22 hits in the crown of the scoresheet. With outstanding 13 or 15 point lead the pursuers FC Grenchen and GC Zurich were referred to the courts. In the years 1936, 1938 and 1941, he was still three times in the Cup final, but in each case he had to leave the place as losers. After the round 1941/42 - Servette won third prize - he broke off his tents in Geneva and joined Lausanne-Sports to.

In the first year, 1942/43, he finished with the team of coach Frank Sechehaye third. In the second year at the Blue-Whites from the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise 1943 /44, George Aeby celebrated under coach Fritz Leonhardt Double. The championship race decided Lausanne with six points ahead of Servette. The Cup victory he won with his team-mates Roger Bocquet, Olivier Eggimann and Numa Monnard on April 10, 1944, a 3-0 win against FC Basel. In the game year 1946/47, it was enough to Lausanne for the runner-up - a point behind his old hometown club FC Biel - and also in the Cup final he could with coach Louis Maurer - also in 1946 - not win the Cup and had to settle for the finals. Overall, Georges Aeby was with Geneva and Lausanne in seven Cup Finals.

To round 1949/50, the 36 -year-old moved to Urania Geneva in the National League B, and practiced there 1950/51 and 1951/52, two rounds of the office of the players coach and finished in the summer of 1952 his active playing career. 1952/53, he worked as a coach at Urania.

National Team, 1936-1946

Aeby completed on 17 March 1936 in Dublin against Ireland his debut in the Swiss national football team. He trained at the 0:1 defeat to the half left Jacques Spagnoli of Lausanne-Sports to the left wing of the "Nati ". His first goal in the Länderelf succeeded the left outside in his fourth appearance on 11 April 1937 in Basel against Hungary. As a coach Karl Rappan on September 19, 1937 in Vienna during the match against Austria for the first time in charge of the Helvetii and Eugène Walaschek debuted in the "Nati " Aeby scored his second goal in the Länderelf and he belonged to the circle of players with which Rappan for Football World Cup 1938 would qualify in France. At the latest after the 1-1 draw on February 6, 1938 in Cologne against Germany, where Aeby had brought to Switzerland in the 38th minute with a 1-0 lead, self-confidence was present in one's own ability. Then, when even Andre Abegglen be in March "Nati " comeback, Rappan had together with Lauro Amadò, Eugene Walaschek, Alfred Bickel, Andre Abegglen and Georges Aeby an attack that was the international demands and the "bar" only to full effectiveness brought. The World Cup qualifier against Portugal succeeded on May 1 in Milan with a 2-1 success. Sensational 2-1 success was 20 days later in Zurich against England, where Aeby, as counted against Portugal to the scorers. At the World Cup he played the two games against Germany. The first ended in extra time 1-1 draw and five days later, on 9 June, the Confederates continued with 4:2 goals through. This Aeby made ​​by an event being talked about:

" In the replay against United Germany he was hit by Goldbrunner unhappy with the shoe in the face. The Servettien was briefly unconscious and was carried off the field. Team physician Dr. Paul Martin sewed the gaping on the right cheek. Twenty minutes later, Aeby was back on the field and was one of the heroes of Paris. "

After the World Cup, he scored in a 4-2 success against Portugal in Lisbon - it was the debut of goalkeeper Erwin Ballabio - just two hits as the 3-1 success in Zurich in November 1939 against the world champions Italy. On 25 May 1946, he finished with his 39th international cap in a friendly against Scotland in Glasgow his career in the "Nati ". Successor to his left outboard position was Jacques Fatton.

After the Second World War Aeby took over a restaurant in Geneva and became an innkeeper.

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