Josef Hügi (23 January 1930 – 16 April 1995) was a Swiss

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who played as a striker from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

Career

Hügi was born in the town of

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on 23 January 1930 and played football from an early age but did not start to take the sport all that seriously until he went to the

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in the late 1940s. His first professional club was

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, whom he signed for in

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. He would spend the next fourteen years of his life playing for the ''RotBlau'', playing 320 league matches and scoring 224 goals. In 1962, he signed for

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but he played just two games there and went on to spend the rest of his career in the lower divisions with

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and

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. He became a coach at FC Basel after his retirement from playing. He was

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34 times for the Swiss national team between 1951 and 1960, scoring 22 goals. At the

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, he scored six goals, tied second-best for the tournament, which makes him the all-time top goalscorer for Switzerland in World Cups.

Honours

;Basel *

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: 1952–53

References

External links

Josef Hügi player profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hugi, Josef 1930 births 1995 deaths Swiss men's footballers Men's association football forwards 1954 FIFA World Cup players Switzerland men's international footballers FC Basel players FC Zürich players FC Laufen players Swiss-German people People from Riehen Swiss Super League players Footballers from Basel-Stadt 20th-century Swiss sportsmen