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Author: | Kolektivitet [ Sun Apr 07, 2013 11:54 am ] |
Post subject: | René BOTTERON 1974-1978 |
Adhitz-Zetsu's set updated by Kolektivitet Name: René Botteron Nickname: "Bobo" | "Cruyff of Helvetia" Country: Switzerland Club: FC Zürich Number: 11 | 10 Position: *AMF, CMF, SMF, DMF Side: RF/LS Age: 20-24 years (17/10/1954) Height: 178 cm Weight: 71 kg Attack: 77 Defence: 55 Balance: 77 Stamina: 85 Top Speed: 86 Acceleration: 84 Response: 80 Agility: 85 Dribble Accuracy: 87 Dribble Speed: 86 Short Pass Accuracy: 84 Short Pass Speed: 78 Long Pass Accuracy: 84 Long Pass Speed: 81 Shot Accuracy: 73 Shot Power: 84 Shot Technique: 66 Free Kick Accuracy: 73 Curling: 76 Header: 74 Jump: 71 Technique: 86 Aggression: 88 Mentality: 76 Goalkeeper Skills: 50 Team Work: 79 Injury Tolerance: B Condition/Fitness: 7 Weak Foot Accuracy: 3 Weak Foot Frequency: 3 Consistency: 6 Growth Type: Early/Lasting CARDS: P04 - Darting Run P05 - Mazing Run P15 - Free Roaming S02 – Passer S06 – Outside Curve S08 – Turning Skills SPECIAL ABILITIES: Dribbling - Playmaking - Passing - Outside Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Balanced INFO: Golden boy that Ajax wanted to pay a lot of money for (after 1974 vs Leeds game). Botteron was a lot of things - creative playmaker, hole player, marauder. Very high dribble speed, quick dribble, fantastic acceleration, quick reaction, turns, very agile. Omnipresent. He would go deep, setting the things moving and then joining the attack. His game had lots of passing, playing from deep. Both weighted ones, short or mid-range passes. Like an orchestrator. He was involved defensively, but not a lot in his early career in Zurich and the NT. In general, in his earlier years, he was more a player who would push the ball forward, loved to go on a long solo run with the ball, try 1-2s. Later, acting more as a DMF, not too much as a hole player. After 1979, much better defensively, more often found on DMF position, played also as a left midfielder, although he would have liked to see himself a little more central. He did not possess a high jump, also not too strong in duels. Had a fairly strong shot, but highly inaccurate and with an awful technique, not a great finisher. Botteron would run too much with the ball at his feet and often had an extra dribble that was unnecessary. Regarding free kicks: he did not take the direct ones (or would be the 2nd FK taker waiting for the pass), most often the set pieces on the side - and he would take then with an outside foot. Botteron literally didn't have a left foot, he was doing almost everything with his right. Born on October 17, 1954, René Botteron played for FCZ from 1973 to 1980. Botteron made the jump from the second league team FC Glarus directly into the first team of the city club in 1973, and he debuted in the national team in 1974. After Köbi Kuhn's resignation, he became FCZ captain in 1977. In 1980 he switched to FC Cologne , and played with Standard Liege in 1982 as the first Swiss ever in a European Cup final. Botteron was the idol of an entire generation of FCZ fans. He completed 307 compulsory games and scored 61 goals for Zurich. In the summer of 1980, René Botteron came to 1.FC Cologne. They called him “Botteram,” which simply means “butter bread” in Kölsch. "He's my man on the left and the ideal partner for Anthony Woodcock," said coach Karl-Heinz Heddergott, who was fired shortly afterwards. Botteron had turned down offers from Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen and Ajax Amsterdam. He had a good first year, however in his second season in Cologne, Rinus Michels put the slim, strong-running and highly gifted technician on the bench. During the winter break of the 1981/1982 season, Botteron moved to Standard Liège in Belgium on loan, where he became champion in his only season, but the crowning glory failed to materialise in the final of the Cup Winners' Cup against Barcelona. For FC Koln, he played a total of 52 competitive games and scored 4 goals. Botteron then played for FC Nürnberg and from 1983 for FC Basel. A serious knee injury meant the end of his career in 1987. Between 1974 and 1986, he made 65 appearances for the national team and was even their captain at times. In a FIFA World XI match, he played alongside stars such as Beckenbauer and Cruyff. _______________________________________________________ As FCZ biographer, Michael Lütscher, described him: "René Botteron was the most notable Swiss footballer of the seventies. Because of his style, he was compared to Johan Cruyff, and in 1982 he played as the first Swiss in a European Cup final. When he ran forward with blowing hair on the left side, left the opponent's defenders standing like cardboard comrades, and then flanked sharply inward with the outer grit of his right foot, it was an attack on the world of the aging. René Botteron's way of playing was the rule violation that made the well-ordered game of the FCZ of the mid-seventies unpredictable and dangerous. The very long hair, the studs rolled up at the ankle, the body over the pants: Botteron was the embodiment of the Zeitgeist, with him the hippietum pushed onto the football field. But Botteron saw and does not see himself as a rebel. The long hair was not meant to be a provocation, but he wore it «because I liked long hair», as he says today. He didn't care that there were stupid sayings because of this. In 1973 he came to the bottom as a 19-year-old, and just a year later the young man, who was still in the 2nd, played. League had kicked, in the national team. Botteron's career was one of the most ferocious in Swiss football, compared only to that of his Glarner compatriot Fritz Künzli. He had to leave the FCZ immediately before Botteron's commitment; Botteron not only took over Glarner representation at FCZ, but also Künzli's role as a pop star. Soon he dropped his teaching, became a professional, bought a Porsche and stayed in the hotel, the Holiday Inn in Regensdorf. Botteron is compared to Holland's superstar Johan Cruyff because of his sloppy movements and his resistance. And one thought he was going abroad soon. Ajax Amsterdam, Cruyff's ex-club, and Bayern Munich were interested, yeah. Today Botteron says if these offers really existed, he never got to see them. Botteron stayed with FCZ until 1980, after Köbi Kuhn's resignation in 1977 he became captain - at 23 years old. Botteron is a different guy at his core than the rebel who was on the field. A balanced, balanced person. He would have preferred to have played in the central midfield - but there were «always others». And that's how he was put on the left, in the storm or as a defender. «René was incredibly decent», says Timo Konietzka, the former coach of the time. «He was faster than everyone else, but in training he held back because he did not want to expose the others." Spoiler: show |
Author: | Kolektivitet [ Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:00 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: René BOTTERON 1979-1983 |
I've created a previous years' set for him and general suggestion to merge the 2. I'm pretty sure some values and info are off (I mean, he was right footed, to the point that he almost never used his left leg, he even took free kicks and corners with an outside foot. Also, he was a left central midfielder in his later years, probably not a WB..). However, I still haven't seen his years from Koln and St.Liege to have a more accurate depiction of this set. In any way, the first era I've created is 1974-1978 and perhaps it makes sense to reduce this 2nd era to 1980-1982 or even just 1981/82 when he reached the CWC final with Standard. The 82/83 year in Nurnberg is not very important overall for Botteron. Here's the 1974-1978 set, I'm also asking for a permission to edit and/or merge the sets if possible: Spoiler: show |
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