Karl Elsener (footballer)
Karl " Charly " Elsener (* August 13 1934 in Bülach; † July 27, 2010 in Zurich ) was a Swiss football goalkeeper who with the Grasshopper Club Zurich won 1956 championship in the National League A and 34 games in the Swiss national football team in the years 1958 to 1966 denied.
Career
Association, 1944-1970
The Soccer learned Karl " Charly " Elsener for the juniors of FC Wallisellenstrasse. In the season 1951/52, nor in the junior age, he guarded the gate of the then third - league club. In the season 1953/54, he moved back into the National League B for FC Winterthur. A year later he moved to the Grasshoppers in the National League A, where he celebrated its first successes. The runner-up in 1954 was preceded by the double win of the year 1956. This was followed by two runner-up title in 1957 and 1958. Between 1958 and 1963 he played the Cup final matches against Young Boys Bern and FC Basel, but lost both finals. At the Football World Cup 1962, he took over as player of Grasshopper Club Zurich and at the 1966 World Cup as a player in part of Lausanne-Sport.
National Team, 1958-1966
On April 16, 1958, Karl Elsener debuted with 23 years in the national team in the game against France in Paris. The game ended 0-0 and so his debut was a success as a goalkeeper. For the first highlight of the qualifiers were for the Football World Cup 1962 in Chile. In 1961, the crucial matches against Sweden took place. By 3-2 in the second leg on 29 October 1961 in Bern, the Swiss ertrotzten a play against the World Cup finalists in 1958. The match was played on 12 November 1961 in Berlin. As published by the negative circumstances surrounding the semi-final game of the 1958 World Cup by the host against the defending champion Germany still outweighed reservations about the Scandinavians in Germany, Switzerland had a " home game ". The Berlin were the 12th man of the Swiss in a 2-1 victory against the favored Sweden. Without the class striker Kurt Hamrin and Lennart Skoglund, though still with the defense stretching Orvar Bergmark and Bengt Gustavsson, the players were with the three crowns on his chest no longer on the services of WM- days of 1958 in the position. Support of the Swiss team was the sovereign acting goalkeeper Karl Elsener.
In the three group matches at the World Cup 1962 against Chile, Germany and Italy goalkeeper impressed spectators and professionals alike. He was the outstanding " Goalie " the team of coach Karl Rappan. Heribert Meisel, Austrian journalist with an international reputation, Karl Elsener took in his book on the World Cup 1962 in South Verlag in Munich, even in his "world team " on. Even in the qualifying matches for the 1966 World Cup against Northern Ireland, Albania and the Netherlands, the quality of play of goalkeeper Elsener was a decisive factor for the success of the team of coach Alfredo Foni. As he helped in the finals his German opponent Wolfgang Overath while the running game with a cramp, Elsener was given a fur coat as thanks for the fairness of the German Bild newspaper and Karlsruhe Küschnerei. On July 15, 1966 in the group match against Spain in Sheffield, Switzerland lost with 1:2 goals, he finished after 34 missions in the national team his international career. He again made it the opposing strikers - Francisco Gento, Amancio, Luis del Sol and Luis Suárez - with responsive parades difficult to arrive at a score.
End of career
In 1968, Karl Elsener ended his career in elite football. After the stations Grasshoppers, La Chaux -de-Fonds, Winterthur, Grenchen, Lausanne Sports and FC Luzern, he played with for 42 years even in the 2nd league with the Zurich Quartierverein Hoengg. The trained heating artist struggled in recent years with health problems, but still operational at his home in Schwamendingenstrasse a small wine trade. And he never missed the monthly meeting at the restaurant meadow valley in angle ZH with companions such as Hans Ruedi Fuhrer, Peter Wäspe, Bruno Gabrieli, Rafael Pusterla or Ernst Meyer.
Elsener died July 27, 2010 of pneumonia in Zurich. On the abdication in Schwamendingenstrasse was attended by over 200 people.