Max Galler (27 February 1902, in Basel – 6 January 1970, in Basel) was a
Swiss
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footballer
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who played for
FC Basel
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and
the Swiss national team. He played as
defender or
midfielder
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. He later became trainer as was trainer of the Basel team for the season 1939/40.
Football career
Galler played his youth football for
FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...
and advanced to their first team in 1921. He played his domestic league debut on 25 May 1922 in the home game at the
Landhof
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against
FC Bern
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In 1921, the club won the Och Cup (that was considered as the former Swiss Cup
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.
He scored his first goal for his club in the first game of the
1925–26 Serie A season on 6 September 1925 against
Solothurn
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.
A well-documented curiosity was that at the end of
Basel's 1929–30 season, the team set off on a Scandinavian football tour, including a visit to Germany. Six games were played in Norway, but the first was played in
Leipzig
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. The team travelled with 15 players, their trainer
Kertész
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and two functionaries. The journey started with a train ride on 2 June 1930 at quarter past seven in the morning from Basel and they arrived in Leipzig at half passed eight that evening. The game against