The fact that Michaud only reached the national team at the age of 32, had to do with the skills of his predecessor, because for years the position in the defensive center was occupied by a similarly large sports man, Heinz Schneiter.
He took over the position from Louis Maurer and in that year he achieved a balanced record, seven international matches, one win, one defeat and five draws.
At the end of that season, on 10 June 1956, he played his domestic league debut in the home game at the Landhof as Basel won 9–1 against Fribourg.
The Wankdorf Stadium hosted the cup final on 15 April 1963 and Basel played against favorites Grasshopper Club Zürich.
After the 2–1 lead for Basel the Lausanne players subsequently refused to resume the game and they sat down demonstratively on the pitch.
[9] After has active career Michaud stayed with the club and became technical director for the period that Benthaus remained trainer.
[10] Michaud was called up by trainers Alfredo Foni and Erwin Ballabio into the Switzerland national football team.
He played his debut for Switzerland on 24 May 1967 in the Hardturm, in Zürich, in front of 21,337 spectators in the legendary 7–1 win against Romania.
Following his playing career Michaud acted as assistant to trainer Louis Maurer of the Switzerland national team.
[10] A well-documented curiosity was the fact that during the winter break of their 1963–64 season the team travelled on a world tour.
This saw them visit British Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, French Polynesia, Mexico and the United States.
First team manager Jiří Sobotka together with 16 players and 15 members of staff, supporters and journalists participated in this world tour from 10 January to 10 February 1964.
Club chairman, Lucien Schmidlin, led the group, but as they arrived in the hotel in Bangkok, he realised that 250,000 Swiss Francs were missing.
He was member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and in the election 1968 he was voted into the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt.