Bernhard Chenaux (born 1 September 1939) is a
Swiss
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retired
footballer
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who played in the 1950s and 1960s as
forward
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.
Chenaux joined
FC Basel
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's first team in their
1957–58 season under manager
Rudi Strittich
Rudi Strittich (3 March 1922 – 11 July 2010) was an Austrian association football, football coach and former player.
Club career
Strittich debuted for SK Vorwärts Steyr, Vorwärts Steyr, and later played for First Vienna FC. While with First ...
. After playing in two test matches, Chenaux played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 23 February 1958 against
Urania Genève Sport
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The current club was born in 1922 through a merger between FC Urania and FC Genève.
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as he was substituted in for the injured
Silvan Thüler. In the same match he scored his first goal for his club, but this could not save Basel from a 2–3 defeat.
Between the years 1957 and 1961 Chenaux played a total of 38 games for Basel scoring a total of four goals. 21 of these games were in the
Nationalliga A, one in the
Swiss Cup
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and the other 16 were friendly games. He scored two goals in the domestic league and the other two were scored during the test games.
References
Sources
* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage
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FC Basel players
Swiss men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
1939 births
Living people