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Peter Füri
Peter Füri (9 October 1937 – 11 May 2015) was a Swiss football player and manager, who played during the 1950s and 1960s. Career Füri started his youth football with the small local club FC St. Clara and later joined the youth teams of FC Basel. During his active career Füri first played as a striker. After his youth football he moved tor FC Concordia Basel who at that time played in the 1st League, the third tier of Swiss football. At the end of the 1956–57 season Concordia won their central group and in the play-offs became 1st League champions and were promoted to the Nationalliga B. Füri stayed with the club and played the next two season for the team. However, at the end of the 1958–59 season they were second last in the division and suffered relegation. Top tier club FC La Chaux-de-Fonds took advantage of the situation and signed Füri with a semi-professional contract. He played with them for two seasons and they let him appear as a defender. After two seasons ...
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Basel
Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. The official language of Basel is Swiss Standard German and the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect. Basel is commonly considered to be the cultural capital of Switzerland and the city is famous for its many Museums in Basel, museums, including the Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunstmuseum, which is the first collection of art accessible to the public in the world (1661) and the largest museum of Swiss art, art in Switzerland, the Fondation Beyeler (located in Riehen), the Museum Tinguely and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel), Museum of Contemporary Art, which is the first public museum of contemporary art in Europe. Forty museums ...
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Swiss Cup
The Swiss Cup (; ; ; ) is a football cup competition that has been organised annually since 1925–26 season by the Swiss Football Association. The Swiss Cup final is usually the most important game of the year with a high attendance. The competition is also shaped by games in the first rounds when villages celebrate the tie of their club with a professional team leading to infrastructure improvements and often thousands of spectators at the local football pitch. Since 1999 the cup winners earns the chance to qualify for the UEFA Europa League or the UEFA Conference League in accordance with the rankings of Switzerland in the UEFA coefficient. History Forerunners Before the foundation of the Swiss Cup, there were two attempts at creating a Swiss football cup competition: the Anglo Cup (1909-1913) and the Och Cup (1920-1922). Anglo Cup and winners The Anglo Cup was played from 1909–1910 to 1912–1913. Och Cup and winners The Och Cup (named after the sporting goods ...
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New Zealand
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Australia
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Singapore
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Malaysia
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Karl Odermatt
Karl Odermatt (born 17 December 1942) is a Swiss former footballer who played for FC Basel and BSC Young Boys throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He played as a midfielder or striker and is generally regarded as one of the best players ever to have worn the FC Basel shirt. He played through, what is now thought to be, Basel's golden years under trainer and manager Helmut Benthaus with teammates such as Paul Fischli, René Hasler and Ottmar Hitzfeld. Career As a small child "Karli" Odermatt grew up in Lucerne and later his family moved to Basel. A coach from the FC Concordia Basel youth system discovered him on a school football field, invited him to a club training and just a few days later he started playing in their youth team. Later he played in their first team in the 1. Liga. "Karli" Odermatt signed for FC Basel in 1962 and in his debut, in September, against FC Lugano he scored two goals. In his first professional season, under manager Jiří Sobotka the mainly amateur team ...
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Bruno Michaud
Bruno Michaud (14 October 1935 — 1 November 1997) was a Swiss football player, football coach and politician. He played as a defender mainly for FC Basel and in the Switzerland national team. Football career Club Despite a two-year period with Lausanne-Sport in the late 1950s, FC Basel was Michaud's regular club. Between 1955 and 1970 he belonged to the FCB first team and as their defensive chief, he was one of the decisive co-founders of the "era Benthaus". He won the Swiss Cup twice and the championship three times under coaches Georges Sobotka and Helmut Benthaus. The fact that Michaud only reached the national team at the age of 32, had to do with the skills of his predecessor, because for years the position in the defensive center was occupied by a similarly large sports man, Heinz Schneiter. Nevertheless, after his international debut on 24 May 1967, in the legendary 7–1 against Romania, Michaud brought it to a total of 15 international matches. After his retirement ...
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