René Botteron
René Botteron ( born October 17, 1954) is a former Swiss football player.
Botterons home club was FC Glarus. From there overtook him the FC Zurich, where he developed into a national player. In 1980 he came to vote for the Swiss footballer of the year to 2nd place.
There was a change to the 1 FC Cologne, but where the Swiss midfielder could never convince properly. He suffered from the fact that the team with Dieter Müller, Bernd Schuster, Tony Woodcock, Rainer Bonhof, Bernhard Cullmann, Klaus Fischer, Klaus Allofs and Stephan Engels had many stars at this time in their ranks, which is not their place in the team could be contested. In the 1981/82 season he was loaned to the Cologne Reserve Bank in the winter of 1981 after a long time at Standard Liege. The Belgians, with whom he came to the finals of the European Cup of Cup Winners' Cup, but the money did not have to definitely oblige him and the Cologne wanted to give him a new contract. The Swiss was transferred early in the season 1982 for 600,000 D- Mark in the 1st FC Nuremberg.
Zlatko Cajkovski, his coach at FC Zurich, said of him: " René Botteron - come from me as champagne, now playing as mineral water"
" Bo -Bo - Botteron " was in the late seventies a battle cry often heard on the school house lots and football stadiums Zurich. Serious football fans recognize there today on this call.
Clubs
- To 1973 FC Glarus
- 1973 - 1980 FC Zurich
- 1980 - 1982 1.FC Köln
- 1982 Standard Liege
- 1982 - 1983 1st FC Nuremberg
- 1983 - 1987? FC Basel
Statistics
- 65 caps for Switzerland.
- 1st Bundesliga 39 games; 3 goals 1 FC Köln
- 32 games; 1 Goal 1 FC Nuremberg
- 3 games; 1 Goal 1 FC Köln