Antonio Permunian (15 August 1930 – 5 March 2020) was a
Swiss football goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...
who played for
Switzerland in the
1962 FIFA World Cup
The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held from 30 May to 17 June 1962 in Chile. The qualification rounds took place be ...
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Copa do Mundo da FIFA Chile 1962
Permunian played his youth football with his local team AC Bellinzona
AC Bellinzona is a Swiss football club based in Bellinzona. It was founded in 1904, and won the Swiss Super League in 1948. After being folded in 2013 declaring bankruptcy, the team played the Ticino Group of 2.Liga, the sixth tier of the Swi ...
and started his active football career in their first team in 1948. In that year Bellinzona won the Swiss Football League Championship. He transferred to FC Luzern
Fussball-Club Luzern (), or simply abbreviated to FCL, is a Swiss sports club based in Lucerne (german: Luzern). It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Super League, the top tier of the Swiss football league s ...
in 1960 and played there for six years. He returned to Bellinzona to end his active career.Hungary
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on 17 September 1955 in the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise with 45,000 spectators as the "match of his life". The Swiss team lost the game 4 - 5, but Permunian remembered Puskás, Kocsis and Hidegkuti running non-stop towards his goal. He played all games bare handed, but soon after this game he bought his first pair of goalie-gloves and was the first goalkeeper in Switzerland to play with gloves.Bellinzona
Bellinzona ( , , Ticinese ; french: Bellinzone ; german: Bellenz ; rm, Blizuna )is a municipality, a historic Swiss town, and the capital of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The town is famous for its three castles (Castelgrande, Montebell ...
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Honours
Bellinzona
* Swiss Football League Champion: 1948
References
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1930 births
Swiss men's footballers
Switzerland men's international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
AC Bellinzona players
FC Luzern players
1962 FIFA World Cup players
People from Bellinzona
2020 deaths
Footballers from Ticino