Jean-Paul Laufenburger

Jean-Paul Laufenburger (19 November 1943 – 16 November 2014) was a French footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Jean-Paul Laufenburger
Personal information
Date of birth (1943-11-19)19 November 1943
Place of birth Mulhouse, France
Date of death 16 November 2014(2014-11-16) (aged 70)
Place of death Village-Neuf
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
–1962 Mulhouse
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1964 Sochaux-Montbéliard
1964–1974 Basel 71 (0)
1974–1976 Mulhouse
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Born in Mulhouse, Laufenburger started his football with the youth teams of the local football club Mulhouse, but he started his active career with Sochaux-Montbéliard in 1962. After just two years he signed for Basel and stayed there for ten seasons.

Laufenburger won the Swiss championship title five times. For the first time in Basel's 1966–67 season.[1] In that season Laufenburger also won the double with Basel. In the Cup final in the former Wankdorf Stadium on 15 May 1967 Basel's opponents were Lausanne-Sports. Helmut Hauser scored the decisive goal via penalty. The game went down in football history due to the sit-down strike that followed that penalty goal. With the score at 1–1 after 88 minutes play, referee Karl Göppel awarded Basel a controversial penalty. After the 2–1 lead for Basel the Lausanne players subsequently refused to resume the game and they sat down demonstratively on the pitch. The referee was forced to abandon the match. Basel were awarded the cup with a 3–0 forfeit.[2]

As well as the championship, Laufenburger won the Swiss Cup and the Swiss League Cup. He played a total of 107 matches for Basel, including 71 in the Championship, Cup and League Cup. The other 36 were in European Cup, UEFA Cup and Fairs Cup.[3]

After his ten years with FC Basel, Laufenburger returned to and played a further two years for his youth club Mulhouse in the French Division 2.

Honours
Basel

Personal Information

Laufenburger's nick name was "Bolle", not only to his family and friends, but he also called so by the Basel fan culture. He lived in Village-Neuf on the French side of the border by Basel. He was married to Agnès. He suffered from Parkinson's disease and was forced into early retirement. He died in 2014.[3]

Sources and references
  • Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2015/2016. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4
  • A list of Swiss Cup Finals at RSSSF
  1. rsssf (1967). "Switzerland 1966/67". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
  2. Schmid, Andreas W. (2010). ""Ein klarer Penalty!" "Nein, eine klare Schwalbe!"" (in German). Basler Zeitung. Retrieved 2010-11-16.
  3. Zindel, Josef (2014). "Jean Paul Laufenburger ist gestorben". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2014-11-18.
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