Other occupation Teacher Years League Name Bruno Galler | Role Referee Years League | |
Born October 21, 1946 (age 78) Baden, Switzerland ( 1946-10-21 ) | ||
Bruno Galler (born 21 October 1946 in Baden) is a retired football referee from Switzerland. He refereed one match in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain (West Germany vs. Chile, 4-1). He also refereed the Cup Winners final on May 9, 1990, at Gothenborg (Sampdordia Genova vs. Anderlecht, 2-0 a.e.t.), and the European Football Championship final on June 26h, 1992, also at Gothenborg (Denmark vs. West Germany, 2-0).
In 1982 Galler took charge of the first leg of the "Supercup" match of Barcelona vs. Aston Villa (1-0). On November 1, 1983, he was suspended for 3 month by the Swiss Football Association when he didn't abandon a match in first Swiss League (Kuesnacht vs Duebendorf, 1983-09-17). On September 27, 1989, when refereed the UEFA-Cup match between Ajax and Austria Vienna, he abandoned the match in the 104th minute (score 1-1) after an iron bar was thrown at Vienna's goalkeeper, Franz Wohlfahrt. Galler also refereed a German Bundesliga match between Borussia Dortmund and Waldhof Mannheim (2-0) on March 30, 1990.