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The Swiss Football Association says former national team captain Robert Ballaman died Sept. 5 after a long illness. He was 85.
Ballaman had two goals in the highest scoring match ever at a World Cup, among his 18 goals in 50 appearances for Switzerland from 1948-61.
Host nation Switzerland lost 7-5 to Austria in a 1954 quarterfinal in Lausanne that was played in searing temperatures.
Ballaman opened the scoring with a powerful long-range shot and the Swiss led 3-0 after 19 minutes before fading in the heat.
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He captained his country for the next seven years.
Ballaman won the Swiss championship three times, with Biel in 1947 and Grasshoppers in 1952 and 56.
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