Numa Monnard (23 September 1918 – 5 September 2001) was a Swiss

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. He played as

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Club career

Monnard played his youth football by

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and advanced to their senior team in 1935 and played in the 1st Liga (second tier of Swiss football). The young forward then joined

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's first team for their 1937–38 season in the Nationalliga (top tier of Swiss football). After two test games against

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and

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(and in both games he scored a goal) he played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game at the Landhof on 29 August 1937. He scored his first goal for his club in the same game as Basel won 1–0 against Young Fellows Zürich. Monnard was the team's top goal scorer that season. With 20 goals he was the Nationalliga top scorer as well. In the domestic league, in each of his first eight games he scored at least one goal and in the league match against

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on 12 September he scored a hat-trick as Basel won by four goals to nil. In the 1st principal round of the

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, as Basel played against lower tier FC Breite, Monard scored five times. In the next cup round Monnard scored a hat-trick against

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. However in the round of 16 Basel lost 0–1 against Grasshopper Club, who then proceeded and eventually won the cup. In his one season for Basel, including cup and friendlies, Monnard played 29 games in which he netted 34 times. 21 of these games were in the Swiss Serie A, three in the

and five were friendly games. He scored 20 goals in the domestic league, eight goals in the cup competition and the other six were scored during the test games. After his time in Basel, Monnard returned to Cantonal and played another season for them in the 1st Liga. He then moved on to play three seasons for Servette from 1939 until 1942. In the

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season Servette won the championship and his team college

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. In the 1943–44 Nationalliga season Monnard won his second Swiss championship with Lausanne and he was the team's top goal getter, he netted with 14 times. In that season Lausanne also advanced to the

Final, which was played at

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on 10 April 1944. Lausanne beat Basel 3-0 and Monnard scored two of the goals. Monnard stayed with Lausanne-Sport until the

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season. He moved on to play for Vevey-Sports in the Nationalliga B, but could not save the team from being relegated. In the 1948–49 season Monnard again played for Cantonal, who were again playing in the second tier. This season Cantonal under trainer

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won the Nationalliga B championship and thus promotion. Jaccard had three top goal scorers in his team,

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scored 21, André Facchinetti netted 19 times and Monnard scored 10 goals. Monnard played the 1949–50 season with CS La Tour-de-Peilz but, after just one year, he returned to Cantonal for his fifth period with them. Monnard ended his active football career with ES Malley. He played with Malley for three seasons.

International career

In the past, Monnard played 16 times for the

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. He played his debut for his country on 24 May 1936 in the home test game in

against

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. The game ended in a 1-1 draw. He scored his first goal for his country on 3 April 1938 in the Stadion Rankhof in

. It was the first goal of the game as the Swiss won by 4–0 against

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. Despite this promising start to his international career, the Swiss coach at this time

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did not select Monnard to play at the

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References

Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
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