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Biography
Roberto Frigerio (born 16 May 1938 in Le Havre, France) is a Swiss football forward who played for Switzerland in the 1962 FIFA World Cup.
Frigerio won the Swiss championship title in Basel's 1966–67 season. Basel finished the championship one point clear of FC Zürich who finished in second position. Basel won 16 of the 26 games, drawing eight, losing twice, and they scored 60 goals conceding just 20. Frigerio was the teams top goal scorer with 16 league goals.
In that season Frigerio won the double with Basel. In the Cup final on 15 May 1967 Basel's opponents were Lausanne-Sports. In the former Wankdorf Stadium, Helmut Hauser scored the decisive goal via penalty. The game went down in football history due to the sit-down strike that followed this goal. After 88 minutes of play, with the score at 1–1, referee Karl Göppel awarded Basel a controversial penalty. André Grobéty had pushed Hauser gently in the back and Hauser let himself drop theatrically. Subsequently after the 2–1 lead for Basel the Lausanne players refused to resume the game and they sat down demonstratively on the pitch. The referee had to abandon the match. Basel were awarded the cup with a 3–0 forfait.
He also played for FC La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Honours
- Swiss Cup: 1960–61
- Swiss Cup: 1963–64
- Swiss League: 1966–67
- Swiss Cup: 1966–67
Sources and references
- Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2015/2016. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4
- Switzerland 1966–67 at RSSSF