Robert Pache

Robert Pache (* September 26, 1897; † 31 December 1974) was a Swiss football player of the 1920s, who has denied between 1921 and 1924 15 international matches and won the silver medal at the 1924 Olympics. At club level, he won with Servette Geneva in 1918 and 1922, the Swiss football championship, CA Paris 1920 French Cup and eventually became player-coach with the FSV Frankfurt 1925 German Vice Champion.

Career

A native of Morges Robert Pache learned to play football in his hometown at Forward Morges, before joining the age of 20 in 1917 to Servette Geneva. In his first season in Geneva in 1917 /18, he won the " Grenats " his first title, the Swiss Championship. In the final matches to Geneva sat against Young Boys Bern (4-2 ) and FC St. Gallen 4-0 gates through. He transferred to season 1919/20, in the French capital to Athlétique Cercle de Paris and was with the club this year, French Cup winner. In 1921 he returned to Geneva and was with Servette Swiss champion again in 1922. In the season 1923/24, the regional series winner in western Switzerland once again reached the final round, but could not prevail against North Star Basel and FC Zurich.

His debut in the Swiss national team celebrated the offensive player on November 6, 1921 in a 1-1 draw against Italy, in the 58 minutes he scored the goal for the Swiss. When Switzerland with 5:0 defeated the Netherlands in Berne on 19 November 1922 debuted with inside forward Max Abegglen, side runners Paul Fässler and goalkeeper Hans powder three other players who should contribute to the expansion of "Nati " in the next few years. In preparation for the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, the player selection by the coaches Izidor furrier ( Grasshopper ), Jimmy Hogan (Young Boys) and his club coach Teddy Duckworth from January were brought in specifically. The three preparation matches on March 23 against France ( 3-0), April 21 against Denmark ( 2-0) and on May 18 against Hungary (4-2 ) were victorious designed and Walter Dietrich himself also had another striker played in the squad. Pache posted on May 30 in Paris in the replay against Czechoslovakia in the 87th minute of the 1-0 winning goal, formed in a 2-1 win against Sweden with his also derived from Morges and Servette gambling Walter Dietrich and the two -goal " Xam " Abegglen the female trio and was also in the final against Uruguay, which was lost with 0:3, for the "Nati " on the field. Winning the Olympic silver medal was the greatest sporting achievement in the career of Robert Pache. Its 15 international match on December 14, 1924 in Stuttgart against Germany (1:1) was finally his last for the national team.

Shortly before, on October 2, 1924, Pache was moved to Frankfurt am Main. There he joined in the spring of 1925 the FSV Frankfurt, who had the Main district championship in 1924/25 secured just superior. Pache played at the opening match of the final round of the "Süddeutsche " at the Stuttgarter Kickers for the first time for the FSV in the storm, but the game came to a debacle and lost 7-1. After the FSV suffer a bitter defeat for a home victory over SV Wiesbaden in the second away game at VfR Mannheim with a 1:5 had and the qualification for the final round of the German Cup was a distant memory, put coach Willi Spreng, the FSV previously had performed three times in a row to the championship in the main district, his office and the Board of Directors declared Pache for new trainers. Under his leadership, the FSV struck in the back playing the Stuttgarter Kickers and sensational also the reigning German champions 1.FC Nuremberg, and was subject only to the VfR Mannheim, who thus secured the South German championship. With the third place achieving the Pache Elf yet qualified for the finals of the German Championship. There, the FSV landed against Hamburger SV 2-1 after extra time the first surprise hit, then won 3-1 goals against Schwarz-Weiss Essen and moved finally a goal by Pache in the semi-final on May 24 in Fuerth against Hertha BSC to 1-0 in the 102nd minute in the final of the German Cup. Also in the final in just inaugurated and with 40,000 spectators packed the Frankfurt Forest Stadium against the clear favorite 1.FC Nürnberg - while for the " Club" exclusively current and former national team competed, Pache was at FSV is the only player with international experience - was the player-coach of " Bernemer " a guarantee of the strength of the defense. The game was eventually lost after extra time 0:1.

In the following two seasons 1925/26 and 1926/27, the FSV sat in the Main Zone while again against the competition from neighboring Riederwald, Offenbach and Hanau through, but missed in the southern German finals in each case the qualification for the German finals games, as well as in the years 1928 and 1929, where the FSV indeed had to give the local leadership of the concord, but about the " repechage " opportunities for qualification was given. Together with the Norwegian Centre Forward Jean -Louis Bretteville (1925 ) and the German national team Georg Knöpfle (1928 ) had the FSV two more " International " and with William Stanton and William Townley successively committed two prestigious English football teacher, but a repeat of the surprise success of the year 1925 did not allow herself forced.

In 1929, Robert Pache was the main character in a sensational scandal. After it had been rumored in Bornheim for some time that Pache could only ever dream of beating his passes when he had a little gekokst before the game, he was taking cocaine and publicly accused tried by a Frankfurt court. Whether Pache was sentenced, is not known, at least he left in the wake of this affair the FSV. First it was said that the employees of the I.G. Colors would have been transferred to Berlin for IG subsidiary Agfa, a short time later but already you could see him again playing in the squares of the Rhine -Main region - but now in the jersey of local rivals Rot-Weiss Frankfurt.

The following year, 1930, Pache finally returned to Switzerland, where he celebrated as a coach at FC among others Bern and Lausanne Sports more successes. In the late 1930s he returned to his hometown and trained there the local football club FC Forward Morges.