Anton Allemann

Toni Allemann
Personal information
Full name Anton Allemann
Date of birth (1936-01-06)6 January 1936
Place of birth Solothurn, Switzerland
Date of death 3 August 2008(2008-08-03) (aged 72)
Place of death Klosters, Switzerland
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1957–1961 BSC Young Boys
1959 Hayes FC 15 (4)
1961–1963 A.C. Mantova
1963–1964 PSV Eindhoven
1964–1966 1. FC Nürnberg 50 (8)
1966–1968 Grasshopper Club Zürich
1968–1969 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
1969–1972 FC Solothurn
International career
1958–1966 Switzerland 27 (9)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anton "Toni" Allemann (6 January 1936 – 3 August 2008) was a Swiss footballer.[1] He began his career at BSC Young Boys in Bern in 1957 at age 21, where he spent four seasons.[2]

Early life and career

Allemann came to London in 1959 as part of his training as a watchmaker. FA regulations meant that he could not play for a professional club so he joined Hayes FC making a total of 15 appearances and scoring 4 goals.[3] In 1961, he joined Italian side A.C. Mantova, and later played for PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands, and 1. FC Nürnberg in Germany, before returning home to Switzerland in 1966 to play for Grasshopper-Club Zürich.[4]

At the international level, Allemann played 27 times for the Swiss national team, and scored nine international goals. He made his national-team debut in a friendly match against Sweden in 1958, and was a member of Switzerland's 1962 FIFA World Cup squad.[5] He played his last international match in June 1966, where he scored the qualification goal but he was omitted from Switzerland's World Cup squad the same year.

Allemann died 3 August 2008, aged 72, after suffering a heart attack.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Anton Allemann" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Toni Allemann". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
  3. ^ "A-Z of Hayes FC". hayesfc.com. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  4. ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Toni Allemann (Player)". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  5. ^ Toni Allemann – FIFA competition record (archived)
  6. ^ "Der Held von Berlin ist tot" [The hero of Berlin is dead] (in German). blick.ch. 4 August 2008. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2010.


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