Paul Schaub

Paul Schaub (born 1907; date of death unknown) was a Swiss footballer who played for FC Basel and FC Kreuzlingen. He also played one game for Swiss national team. He played mainly in the position of midfielder.

Schaub joined Basel's first team in advance of their 1926–27 season. After playing just one test match, he played his domestic league debut for the club in the home game at the Landhof on 14 May 1927 as Basel won 1–0 against local rivals Concordia Basel.[1] He scored his first goal for his club on 12 May 1929 in the away game against Aarau. In fact Schaub scored two goals in that game, as the two teams played a 2–2 draw.[2]

A well-documented curiosity was that at the end of Basel's 1929–30 season, the team set off on a Scandinavian football tour, including a visit to Germany. Six games were played in Norway, but the first was played in Leipzig. The team travelled with 15 players, their trainer Kertész and two functionaries. The journey started with a train ride on 2 June 1930 at quarter past seven in the morning from Basel and they arrived in Leipzig at half passed eight that evening. The game against VfB Leipzig was played the next evening. The following one and a half days were spent travelling by train, train, ship, train and train again to Drammen in Norway. Only a few hours after their arrival, the team played a game against a joint team Mjøndalen IF / SBK Drafn. The next day was a train journey to Porsgrunn and two matches in 24 hours. Following that they travelled per bus and then by ship in a 48-hour journey to Bergen for a match against SK Brann. Another ship voyage, this time to Stavanger, two games against Viking FK, then a ship voyage back to Bergen. Finally, the tour ended with three train journeys in three days, Bergen/Oslo/Berlin/Basel, arriving at home on 20 June. The result of this tour was seven games, four wins, one draw, two defeats and approximately 160 hours of travelling. Schaub was member of the tour and played in six of these games.

Between the years 1926 and 1937 Schaub played a total of 283 games for Basel, scoring a total of 11 goals. 179 of these games were in the Swiss Serie A/Nationalliga, 26 in the Swiss Cup and 77 were friendly games. He scored 9 goals in the domestic league, the other two were scored during the test games.[3] He was a member of the Basel team that won the Swiss Cup in the 1932–33 season. The final was played in the Hardturm stadium against Grasshopper Club. Basel won 4–3 and achieved the club's first ever national title.[4] He later played one season for Kreuzlingen and then ended his active football career.

Schaub was called up for the Switzerland for the first time in 1932. He played two matches for his country, the first on 14 October 1934 in the Charmilles Stadium, Geneva, against Czechoslovakia as the two teams drew 2–2.[5]