Max Strasser (23 May 1904 – 16 November 1967) was a Swiss
footballer
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who played for
FC Basel
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. He played mainly as a
forward
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, but also as a
midfielder
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.
Football career
Strasser played his youth football for
FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss professional Association football, football club based in Basel, in the Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been List of Swiss footba ...
and then advanced to the first team before their
1924–25 season. He made his domestic league debut on 26 October 1924, in the home game at the
Landhof
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against
Concordia Basel
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.
He scored his first goal for the club in the last game of the
1925–26 Serie A season on 29 May 1926 against the same opponents, Concordia. It was Basel's first goal of the match, which they won 3–0.
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
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. 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