Andreas Wittwer

Andreas Wittwer
Andreas Wittwer (2011)
Personnel
birthday	5th October 1990
place of birth	Switzerland
Size	172 cm
position	defender
Juniors
Years	station
1999-2007	BSC Young Boys
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007-2008	FC Thun U21
2008-2016	FC Thun	195 (11)
2016-2019	FC St. Gallen	93 0(2)
2019–	Grasshopper Club Zurich	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2010	Switzerland U-20	2 (0)
2012	Switzerland U-21	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: July 12, 2018

Andreas Wittwer (born October 5, 1990 ) is a Swiss football player who is currently under contract with Grasshopper Club Zurich in the Challenge League .

Career

In his early youth, Andreas Wittwer, a trained defender, played for the BSC Young Boys for eight years , most recently for their U18s. In September 2007 he moved to FC Thun, where he was used exclusively in the U21s for a year, before being put up for the first time in summer 2008 for the first team that was relegated to the Challenge League that year . In his first year as a professional, he played ten games for the Fanionteam the Bernese Oberland , where he initially only as substitutes occurred. In the following 2009/10 season he finally came to 21 missions, during which he scored two goals, each of which he scored after a substitution in the second half. FC Thun won the Challenge League this season and was promoted to the Axpo Super League . As early as March 2010, FC Thun announced that the contract with Andreas Wittwer had been prematurely extended by two years to June 30, 2013. On April 22, 2013, FC Thun announced that the contract with Andreas Wittwer had been extended to summer 2015.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season it became clear that the 20-year-old Wittwer would initially continue to play the role of joker with coach Murat Yakin . The defender was regularly substituted in late in the game against offensive players and held himself in varying positions - as sporadically in the previous season. He not only came into play as a full-back, but also in the outer midfield and as a (left) hanging tip - a position that he already occupied in the starting line-up.

Since the Thun U21 was promoted interregionally from the 2nd league to the 1st league (third highest division) in the 2009/10 season, the demands on the junior team increased in the current season. From the fourth round onwards, Andreas Wittwer was brought back to the U21 by the youth coach Rüdiger Böhm from time to time, where he played 90 minutes each time. In the preliminary round, Wittwer played eight games for the second team in addition to his eleven games for the first team (for the latter he scored five goals). There, too, his missions were not limited to the role of defender. On November 14, 2010, the defender succeeded in something that even strikers cannot take for granted. In the game of FC Thun U21 against SV Muttenz , he scored a hat trick . In addition, the assists for the first two goals in Thun's 5-3 victory were on his account.

One month before the transfer of the former Thun top scorer Ezequiel Oscar Scarione to FC St. Gallen was made public, coach Murat Yakin answered the question of whether he was already looking for a striker in that he was in midfielders Stephan Andrist and Mirson Volina , as well as the Nominal defender Andreas Wittwer see viable alternatives for Scarione. Since Scarione's departure, Wittwer has actually got more playing time in the first team.

On August 3, 2016, Wittwer moved to the East Swiss club FC St. Gallen .

National team

Andreas Wittwer was included in a national team for the first time in 2010. As a member of Switzerland U-20 , the defender has so far played two international matches against Germany and Italy. But even in the national team he was not used as a defender, but in both matches as a hanging tip.

Web links

• Andreas Wittwer on the website of the Swiss Football League
• Usage statistics on the website of the Swiss Football Association: A-Team , U-21 , U-20 , U-19 , U-18 , U-17 , U-16 , U-15

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics on the website of the Swiss Football Association: A-Team , U-21 , U-20 , U-19 , U-18 , U-17 , U-16 , U-15
2. ^ Transfermarkt.ch: Profile Andreas Wittwer. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
3. ↑ de.pons.eu: Dictionary entry for Fanion team. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
4. ^ Andreas Wittwer on the website of the Swiss Football League
5. ↑ transfermarkt.ch: Match report Thun-Lausanne. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
6. ↑ transfermarkt.ch: Gossau-Thun game report. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
7. ↑ Sports information Si : Lugano stumbles - Thun rises. In: football.ch. May 15, 2010, accessed March 26, 2011 . 
8. ↑ transfermarkt.ch: FC Thun extends contracts. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
9. ↑ transfermarkt.ch: performance data 2010/11. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
10. ↑ Jungfrauzeitung, pd: Glarner sick, Rama injured. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
11. ↑ sport.ch: List of Thun-Lucerne. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
12. ↑ sport.ch: Sion-Thun list. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
13. ^ Peter Vögeli, Berner Zeitung : The successful year of FC Thun. June 7, 2010, accessed March 26, 2011 . 
14. ↑ transfermarkt.ch: Match report Thun U21-SV Muttenz. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
15. ↑ Alexander Wäfler, Berner Zeitung : The rumors annoy Scarione. Retrieved March 26, 2011 . 
16. ↑ Andreas Wittwer - player profile 16/17 | Transfer market . 2017 ( transfermarkt.ch [accessed on January 31, 2017]).