He played through, what is now thought to be, Basel's golden years under trainer and manager Helmut Benthaus with teammates such as Paul Fischli, René Hasler and Ottmar Hitzfeld.

In his first professional season, under manager Jiří Sobotka the mainly amateur team lifted the Swiss Cup, winning the final 2:0 against the favorites Grasshopper Club Zürich.

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.

[2] During 1992 he was appointed as caretaker manager of Basel for a short time, together with Bruno Rahmen, after Ernst August Künnecke was sacked and before Friedel Rausch took over.