Peter Brendle was born in Basel, Switzerland on 1 October 1943. Following an early career as an athlete, and after completing an apprenticeship in print and typesetting, Brendle emigrated to Australia where he forged a long and successful career in the music and entertainment industry. Brendle relocated to Germany in the late 90's, working to bring Australian culture to the region. Sporting Career Peter Brendle is a former Swiss National League footballer who played for Swiss teams FC Basel and FC Concordia in the early 1960s as striker. Brendle joined FC Basel's first team for their 1960–61 season under trainer Jenö Vincze. Brendle played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 11 December 1960 as Basel played against Young Fellows Zürich. During his time at FC Basel, Brendle played alongside club legend Josef Hügi and against Swiss actor Hannes Schmidhauser, best known for his role as 'Uli der Knecht' In his time with the club, Brendle played a total of six games for Basel scoring one goal. Four of these games were in the Nationalliga A and the other two were friendly games. He scored his only goal for his club in a friendly game at the Landhof on 12 February 1961 against Grasshopper Club. Following a serious foot injury during a home game on March 19, 1961 at the Landhof, Brendle joined TV KleinBasel’s track & field team, where he became a junior champion winning a ‘laurel wreath’ in Decathlon at the largest Swiss Sports Event, the Federal Gymnastics Festival (Lorbeerkranz am Eidgenössischen Turnfest 1963); as a multi-talented sportsman, he also played Handball in the Swiss National B League for TVKB. During the football season 1962/63 he was bought by FC Concordia from FC Basel, where he continued competing in track & field competitions while also becoming the top season-scorer for the Football Club. Brendle was later selected for the Basel team to play Munich in Munich for the Messestädte Cup (now UEFA League) but the game was cancelled due to thick fog. In 1960 Brendle was also a member of the Swiss Junior National Team and attended a number of training camps at the famous Magglingen Swiss Federal Institut of Sport (7). While traveling to Australia, Brendle played the 1964/65 season in Canada with ‘Germanias Winnipeg’, winning the Canadian National A League Champion Crown (not only was he the leading goal scorer, he