Bruno Rahmen (born 15 October 1948) is a former

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player and

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Private life

After his football career, Rahmen worked for the Basler chemical industry and advanced to Sales Executive before his retirement. He married Marlis in 1966 and they have two sons Patrick and Micha, both of whom also became professional footballers. From July 2007 until October 2011,

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was trainer and manager of the FC Basel U-21 squad, presently he is assistant to

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in the

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Football career

Rahmen started his football with the youth teams of FC Riehen and also played in their amateur 2. Liga first team. In 1966, he signed for

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and played with them for ten years, winning the

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Championship five times, the

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twice and the

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once. In the summer of 1976, Rahmen transferred to FC Luzern (then in the second division) and played for them for five years, winning promotion with his team in the 1978/79 season. Bruno Rahmen finished his playing career as player-manager by

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in the top Swiss Amateur League. During the 1983–1985 period, Rahmen was manager of FC Luzern. In 1992, he was also caretaker manager of Basel for a short time, together with

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, after

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was sacked and before

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took over.

Honours

Basel *

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...

1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...

: 1967, 1975 *

: 1973 *

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: 1969, 1970 Luzern * Promotion to

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: 1979

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahmen, Bruno 1948 births Living people Swiss men's footballers Swiss football managers FC Basel players FC Luzern players FC Luzern managers FC Basel managers Men's association football defenders Men's association football midfielders