Max "Xam" Abegglen (11 April 1902 – 25 August 1970) was a Swiss
footballer
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who played as a
forward. Throughout his career, he played for
FC Lausanne until 1923 when he transferred to
Grasshopper Zurich. He was the brother of
André 'Trello' Abegglen and Jean Abegglen, both also players of the Swiss national team.
Abegglen played for the
Switzerland national team 68 times, scoring 34 goals. He was the sole leading goalscorer for the team until
Kubilay Türkyilmaz
Kubilay Türkyilmaz (; born 4 March 1967) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a forward. He completed his international career as the all-time joint leading goal scorer for the Swiss national team, with 34 goals in 64 appear ...
's 34th goal in his 62nd and final international in 2001. Their records were broken on 30 May 2008 with
Alexander Frei's 35th goal.
Abegglen scored a hat-trick in his first international, against
the Netherlands
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in
Bern on 19 November 1922. His only other hat-trick was in the
Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics was the sixth edition of the football tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris.
The tournament expanded to 22 countries from 4 confederations, with African side Egypt (as the previous edition) ...
on 24 May 1924, with three in a 9–0 win over
Lithuania.
The Swiss won the silver medal after losing the final 3–0 to
Uruguay
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. Abegglen missed the
1934 FIFA World Cup
The 1934 FIFA World Cup was the second edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It took place in Italy from 27 May to 10 June 1934.
The 1934 World Cup was the first in w ...
. In his final match, he was captain as Switzerland lost 1–0 to
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
on 2 May 1937.
The club
Neuchâtel Xamax
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, twice Swiss champions in the 1980s, is named after "Xam" Max Abegglen. He also competed at the
1924 Summer Olympics and the
1928 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
Max "Xam" Abegglen – Goals in International Matches by Erik Garin and Roberto Mamrud,
RSSSF
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1902 births
1970 deaths
Swiss men's footballers
Switzerland international footballers
Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of Switzerland
Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
Grasshopper Club Zürich players
FC Lausanne-Sport players
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Association football forwards
People from Neuchâtel
Sportspeople from the canton of Neuchâtel
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