Leopold Kielholz

Leopold "Poldi" Kielholz (9 June 1911 – 4 June 1980) was a Swiss football striker. He participated in the 1934 FIFA World Cup, scoring 3 goals, and also in the 1938 FIFA World Cup. Historically, he was the first Swiss international to score a goal for his country in a World Cup tournament. He was wearing glasses during games.[2]

Leopold Kielholz
Personal information
Date of birth (1911-06-09)9 June 1911
Place of birth Basel, Switzerland
Date of death 4 June 1980(1980-06-04) (aged 68)
Place of death Zürich, Switzerland
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1927–1928 BSC Old Boys
1928–1930 Black Stars Basel
1930–1932 Basel 34 (23)
1932–1935 Servette
1935–1936 FC Bern
1936–1937 Reims
1937–1938 St. Gallen
1938–1943 Young Fellows Juventus[1]
National team
1933–1938 Switzerland 17 (12)
Teams managed
1936–1937 Reims
1950–1953 Switzerland
1954–1958 Switzerland
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Football career

Club

Leopold Kielholz started his footballing career by BSC Old Boys Basel. A year later he transferred to Black Stars Basel and another two years later to FC Basel.

A well-documented curiosity was that at the end of Basel's 1929–30 season, the team set off on a Scandinavian football tour, including a visit to Germany. Six games were played in Norway, but the first was played in Leipzig. The team travelled with 15 players, their trainer Kertész and two functionaries. The journey started with a train ride on 2 June 1930 at quarter past seven in the morning from Basel and they arrived in Leipzig at half passed eight that evening. The game against VfB Leipzig was played the next evening. The following one and a half days were spent travelling by train, train, ship, train and train again to Drammen in Norway. Only a few hours after their arrival, the team played a game against a joint team Mjøndalen IF / SBK Drafn. The next day was a train journey to Porsgrunn and two matches in 24 hours. Following that they travelled per bus and then by ship in a 48-hour journey to Bergen for a match against SK Brann. Another ship voyage, this time to Stavanger, two games against Viking FK, then a ship voyage back to Bergen. Finally, the tour ended with three train journeys in three days, Bergen/Oslo/Berlin/Basel, arriving at home on 20 June. The result of this tour was seven games, four wins, one draw, two defeats and approximately 160 hours of travelling. Kielholz was participant in this tour. He played in five games and scored a goal.

Between the years 1930 and 1932 Kielholz played a total of 51 games for Basel scoring a total of 39 goals. 34 of these games were in the Swiss Seirie A, five in the Swiss Cup and 12 were friendly games. He scored 23 goals in the domestic league, four in the cup and the other 12 were scored during the test games.[3]

In 1932 Kielholz transferred to Servette. The clubs that he played for while participating in these two World Cup tournaments were FC Servette and Young Fellows Juventus. He also played for Stade de Reims between 1936 and 1937.[4]

International

Kielholz gave his made his debut for the Swiss national team in 1933. He played a total of 17 games and scored 12 goals for Switzerland.[5] His last international game was in 1938 against Belgium.

Coaching career

Kielholz coached Stade de Reims from 1936 to 1937[6] and twice the Swiss nation team, between 1950 and 1953 and again between 1954 and 1958.[7]

Titles and Honours

See also

References
  1. http://www.rsssf.com/players/zwit-players-in-fr.html
  2. Zwei Rekorde, ein Skandal Die acht Teilnahmen der Schweiz an WM-Endrunden. Basler Zeitung vom 15 October 2009
  3. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Leopold Kielholz - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  4. http://www.rsssf.com/players/zwit-players-in-fr.html
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 January 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesz/zwit-intres.html
  • ^ , A.Gowarzewski : "FUJI Football Encyclopedia. World Cup FIFA*part I*Biographical Notes - Heroes of Mundials" ; GiA Katowice 1993


Sources
  • Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2189-1
  • Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
  • Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage
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