Robert Ballaman | |
Birth Date: | 21 June 1926 |
Years1: | 1941–1946 |
Clubs1: | Reconvilier |
Years2: | 1946–1950 |
Years3: | 1950–1963 |
Years4: | 1963–1964 |
Totalgoals: | 271 |
Nationalyears1: | 1948–1961 |
Nationalteam1: | Switzerland[1] |
Nationalcaps1: | 50 |
Nationalgoals1: | 19 |
Robert Ballaman (21 June 1926 – 5 September 2011)[2] was a Swiss footballer who played as a centre forward.
Born in Reconvilier, Ballaman began playing football with FC Reconvilier at age 15. in 1946, he joined FC Biel-Bienne, where he would win the 1946–47 Nationalliga A title. He played a total of 14 seasons in the Nationalliga A with FC Biel-Bienne, Grasshopper Club Zürich and FC Winterthur, scoring 271 league goals.[3]
Ballaman earned 50 caps and scored 18 goals for the Switzerland national football team. He played in the 1954 FIFA World Cup on home soil, where he scored 4 goals and Switzerland reached the quarterfinals.
Ballaman died at age 85 in September 2011.[4]