Albert Linder (footballer)

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Albert Linder
Personal information
Full name Albert Linder
Date of birth(1877-11-08)8 November 1877
Place of birth Switzerland
Date of death unknown
Position(s) Midfielder, Striker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1895–1898 FC Basel [note League 1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Albert Linder (born 8 November 1877) was a Swiss footballer who played for FC Basel during the 1890s. He played mainly in the position as striker, but also as midfielder.

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Football career

FC Basel was founded on 15 November 1893 and Linder joined the club about two years later, during their 1895–96 season. Linder played his first game for the club in the home game on 23 November 1895 as Basel played their first ever game against Anglo-American Club Zürich. [1]

Linder stayed with the team for three seasons and during this time he played 13 games for Basel without scoring a goal. [note Scorers 1] [2]

Notes

Footnotes

  1. League: up until 1898 there was no league football in Switzerland.
  1. Scorers: many pre-First World War game sheets no longer exist or are incomplete and so, many line ups and most goal scorers in this period remain unknown.

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References

  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - Anglo-American Club Zürich 0:1 (0:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Albert Linder - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

Sources

(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel)