Heinz Schneiter

Heinz Schneiter ( born April 12, 1935 in Thun / Bern Canton ) is a former Swiss football player who has brought it in 1957 to 1966 in the national team in 44 international appearances with three goals.

Career

Association

Heinz Schneiter, one of the most versatile football player in the country of the Confederates began in his hometown at FC Thun his football career. Climax with tuna was reaching the 1955 Cup final against FC La Chaux -de-Fonds. After his move to Young Boys Bern he witnessed the successful series of the Berne in the National League A. Four times in a row, celebrated the proteges of the German Altinternationalen Albert Sing in 1957 to 1960, the championship in Switzerland. In domestic Wankdorf Stadium, the black and yellow were a power. The Cup success came in 1958 added in the replay against Grasshopper Club Zurich. The performance demonstrated Heinz Schneiter and colleagues in 1959 in the European Cup of Champions. After wins MTK Budapest and bismuth SC Karl -Marx-Stadt ( based in Aue ) they failed only in the semi-final against the French champions Stade Reims. In Competitions in 1960 and 1961 came from against the German champions Eintracht Frankfurt and Hamburger SV. After moving in 1962 to the club of his national comrades Ely Tacchella to Lausanne-Sports, more titles profits stood also at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise. First Heinz Schneiter won the trophy in 1964 with 2-0 goals against La Chaux -de-Fonds and 1965 the championship in the National League A in front of his old club Young Boys Bern. Even with Lausanne was the athletic performance in the European Cup of Cup Winners 1965 - it failed only at the later Cup winners West Ham United - remarkable. In order to be a "historic change" to Lausanne had paid off with the first time reached transfer fee for a Swiss franc over 100,000. After two more rounds at Young Boys he ended his active career in 1969 as player-coach at his hometown club FC Thun. 1970 Schneiter resigned as coach and crisis manager again in the service of the Young Boys.

National

At the World Cup qualifier on 10 March 1957 in Madrid against Spain Heinz Schneiter debuted in the "Nati ". The 2-2 draw against the international star-studded Spanish selection - Kubala, Di Stefano, Suarez, Gento - was in front of 70,000 spectators more than a moderate success of the Swiss. With the successful qualification for the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, he experienced a high and a low: He received a red card in the 0-4 defeat on 28 May 1961 in Stockholm against the runner-up Sweden and scored with a header the winner in a playoff at 12 November. , 1961 in Berlin in a 2-1 success. At the World Cup in Chile, he played in all three group games. But on 5 June 1963, he was also a member of the "Nati " which in Basel suffered a bitter defeat against England with 1:8 goals. Bobby Charlton distinguished itself with three goals. Fortunately were the games in qualifying for the 1966 World Cup in England against Northern Ireland, Albania and the Netherlands. The Swiss prevailed with Nati - Captain Schneiter, thus going up in a row for the second time at the World Cup finals. On the island was its use in the first group match against Germany on 12 July 1966 in Sheffield his 44th and final use in the national team. For clear and deserved even in the height of the 5-0 win team of head coach Helmut Schön Franz Beckenbauer and Helmut Haller contributed two goals each, Siegfried Held once was able to go on the scoresheet.

Personal

Lancer was Heinz Schneiter 1966 to 1998 worked as a manager of a bank branch of Spar Loan Bank in Bern in Bern suburb of Bethlehem.

Swell

  • The Nati, Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2006, ISBN 3-89533-532-0
  • The major European football book, Volume 2, Nuttelmann Sports Publishing, 1999, ISBN 3-930814-02-1
  • Club Encyclopedia, AGON, 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9
  • National football team ( Switzerland )
  • Swiss
  • Born in 1935
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