Roland Denicola (born 6 February 1939) is a Swiss former
footballer who played for
FC Basel in the early 1960s as a
forward
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.
Denicola joined Basel's first team for their
1961–62 season under manager
Jiří Sobotka
Jiří Sobotka (also known as Georges Sobotka; 6 June 1911 – 20 May 1994) was a Czech football player and manager. He played internationally for Czechoslovakia.
Career
Sobotka played for Czechoslovakia national football team (23 caps, 8 goa ...
. After one match in the
1961–62 International Football Cup and one test game, Denicola made his domestic league debut for the club in the home game at the
Landhof on 11 November 1961. He scored his first goal for his club in the same game as Basel won 4–2 against
Zürich.
In his only season with the club, Denicola played eight games for Basel and scored twice. Four of the games were in the
Nationalliga A, one in the
Swiss Cup
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, one in the
International Football Cup and the other two were friendly games. He scored once in the domestic league and once during a test game.
References
Sources
* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage
FC Basel players
Swiss men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
1939 births
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