Walter Bielser
Personal information
Full name Walter Bielser
Date of birth (1929-05-20)20 May 1929
Place of birth Pratteln, Switzerland
Date of death 10 August 2004(2004-08-10) (aged 75)
Place of death Pratteln, Switzerland
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
FC Pratteln
FC Aesch
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
FC Aesch
Biel-Bienne
1951–1952 Lausanne-Sport
1952–1954 FC Basel 47 (15)
1954–1955 Biel-Bienne 23 (5)
1955–1957 FC Basel 19 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Walter Bielser (20 May 1929 – 10 August 2004) was a Swiss footballer who played mainly as a forward, but also as a midfielder.

Football career

Bielser played his youth football for FC Pratteln and then moved on to FC Aesch. As senior he played for Biel-Bienne and Lausanne-Sport before he moved to Basel for the first time. After two seasons he again played for Biel-Bienne before returning to Basel. Between 1952 and 1957 Bielser played 106 games for Basel and scored of 32 goals; 66 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, 8 in the Swiss Cup and 32 were friendly games. He scored 19 goals in the domestic league, 3 in the Cup and the other 10 during the test games.[1]

The biggest success in his football career was as Basel won the championship title in the 1952–53 season. During this season Bielser played 21 league games and scored 9 goals for the club.[2] Joint with Walter Bannwart and René Bader, Bielser was the team's second most successful league scorer with 9 goals for the club, behind Josef Hügi with 32.

Private life

Bielser was the eldest of three children. He grew up in Pratteln and did his apprenticeship as a printer. Bielser married Heidi Schillinger and together they had three daughters. In 1960 he made himself self-employed and founded his own printing company, which he ran until his retirement.[3]

Honours

FC Basel

References

  1. ↑ "Walter Bielser". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  2. ↑ "Walter Bielser - Saison 1952/53". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  3. ↑ Personenlexikon. "Walter Bielser". Kanton Basel-Landschaft. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

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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