Max Strasser

Max Strasser (* 23 May 1904; † 16 November 1967) was a Swiss footballer who played for FC Basel. He played mainly in the position as Striker, but also as midfielder.

Max Strasser
Personal information
Full name Max Strasser
Date of birth (1904-05-23)23 May 1904
Date of death 16 November 1967(1967-11-16) (aged 63)
Place of death Basel
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
until 1924 FC Basel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1924–1930 FC Basel 52 (4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Football career

Strasser played his youth football for FC Basel and then advanced to their first team before their Basel's 1924–25 season. He played his domestic league debut on 26 October 1924, in the home game at the Landhof, against Concordia Basel.[1] He scored his first goal for his 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 and they won by three goals to nil.[2]

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. Strasser was participant in this tour, but played in only three of these games.

Between the years 1924 and 1930 Strasser played a total of 86 games for Basel, scoring a total of 13 goals. 52 of these games were in the Swiss Serie A, five were in the Swiss Cup and 29 were friendly games. He scored four goal in the domestic league, four were scored in the cup and the other five were scored during the test games.[3]

References
  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Concordia Basel 1:0 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Concordia Basel - FC Basel 0:3 (0:3)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Max Strasser - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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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