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Roger Vonlanthen
Roger Vonlanthen in 1956
Personal information
Date of birth (1930-12-05)5 December 1930
Place of birth Lancy, Switzerland
Date of death July 2020 (aged 89)
Place of death Onex, Switzerland
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps ( Gls)
1951–1955 Grasshoppers
1955–1957 Inter Milan 42 (12)
1957–1959 Alessandria 45 (10)
1959–1966 Lausanne
International career
1951–1962 Switzerland 27 (9)
Managerial career
1966 Servette
1967–1972 Lausanne
1976–1977 CS Chênois
1977–1979 Switzerland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roger Vonlanthen (5 December 1930 – July 2020) was a Swiss football player and manager.

During his club career he played for Grasshoppers (1951–55), Inter Milan (1955–57), Alessandria (1957–59) and Lausanne (1959–66). He earned 27 caps and scored 8 goals for the Switzerland national football team from 1954 to 1966, and participated in two World Cups ( 1954 and 1962). Later he became a manager with Servette, Lausanne and CS Chênois [1] and had a stint as the manager of Switzerland from 1977 to 1979. [2]

In March 2021, it was announced Vonlanthen died the previous year, in July at the age of 89 in Onex. [3] [4]

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