Beat Sutter

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Beat Sutter
Personnel
birthday December 12, 1962
place of birth GelterkindenSwitzerland
Size 184 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1970-1981 FC Gelterkinden
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1981 FC Gelterkinden
1981-1986 FC Basel 114 (35)
1986-1994 Neuchâtel Xamax 223 (67)
1994-1995 Yverdon-Sport FC 29 (10)
1995-1996 FC St. Gallen 29 0(2)
1996-1997 Yverdon-Sport FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-1994 Switzerland 60 (13)
1 Only league games are given.

Beat Sutter (born December 12, 1962 in Gelterkinden ) is a former Swiss football and national team player. The trained mechanic now lives in Zurich and works as a sales representative at Swisslos .

Beat (called “Bitsch”) Sutter grew up in Gelterkinden and began his football career at the age of eight with FC Gelterkinden . In 1976 he was invited to join the junior selection team of the Northwestern Switzerland region and became Swiss champion of the regional selection. He became a junior national player. At the age of 17 he was a key figure and scored many goals when the first team of FC Gelterkinden became 3rd division regional champions (1980).

The FC Basel campaigned Sutter in spring 1981 and coached Benthaus he quickly became a regular player. In 1982 the FCB reached the cup final against FC Sion . In the last quarter of an hour, Sion kicked a free kick. The Sion player Alain-Emile Balet knocked down the Basel “Bitsch” Sutter with a targeted punch and then scored a goal. Quote Sutter: «I felt the punch hard, Balet hit it well. I was passed out for a while and at first I didn't notice that the goal had fallen. "

Sutter played in Basel until 1986 and then moved to Neuchâtel Xamax . He had great success at Xamax and was Swiss champion twice in 1987 and 1988 . These were the only titles in his football career. Sutter was never a Swiss cup winner . He made it to the final twice (defeats with Basel against Sion and with Xamax 1: 2 against Grasshopper Club Zurich in 1990).

In 1994 he moved to Yverdon-Sport FC in the National League B and in 1995 to FC St. Gallen . At the end of his career he returned to Yverdon in 1996.

He played his first national team game in September 1983 in Neuchâtel against Czechoslovakia . In his third appearance for the national team, he scored his first international goal (against Yugoslavia ).

titles and achievements

Gelterkinden

Basel

Neuchâtel Xamax

Web links

  • Beat Sutter in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. a b Lukas Müller: Red-blue: Beat Sutter conquered football Switzerland from Gelterkinden . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2010, ISSN  1660-0878 .
  2. a b Beat "Bitsch" Sutter . fcgelterkinden. 2010. Retrieved November 16, 2010.
  3. Sporting successes of FC Gelterkinden . fcgelterkinden. 1980. Retrieved November 16, 2010.