Otto Bossart

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Otto Bossart
Personal information
Full name Otto Bossart
Date of birth(1876-10-26)26 October 1876
Place of birth Switzerland
Date of death unknown
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1894–1896 FC Basel [note League 1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Otto Bossart (born 26 October 1876) was a Swiss footballer who played as defender for FC Basel in the 1890s.

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Football career

FC Basel was founded on 15 November 1893 and Bossart joined the club a year later before their 1894–95 season.

Bossart played his first game for the club in the home game in the Stadion Schützenmatte on 22 September 1894 as Basel won 2–0 against FC Gymnasia. [1]

Bossart played for the club for two seasons and during this time he played 21 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 - FC Gymnasia (Gough's Team) 2:0". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Otto Bossart - 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.)