Fabian Frei

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Fabian Frei
Fabian Frei.jpg
in action for the U-21 national team (2011)
Personnel
birthday January 8, 1989
place of birth Frauenfeld ,  Switzerland
Size 182 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1998-2000 FC Frauenfeld
2000-2004 FC Winterthur
2004-2006 FC Basel
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2007 FC Basel U-21 31 (11)
2007-2009 FC Basel 49 0(2)
2009-2011 →  FC St. Gallen  (loan) 64 (13)
2011-2015 FC Basel 123 (14)
2015-2017 1. FSV Mainz 05 53 0(1)
2018– FC Basel 59 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2005-2006 Switzerland U17 14 (10)
2006-2007 Switzerland U18 5 0(2)
2007-2008 Switzerland U19 7 0(5)
2008 Switzerland U20 3 0(0)
2008-2011 Switzerland U21 22 0(5)
2011– Switzerland 12 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of October 25, 2019

2 As of November 9, 2017

Fabian Frei (born January 8, 1989 in Frauenfeld ) is a Swiss football player . He is under contract with FC Basel .

family

Fabian Frei's father is the football coach Markus Frei , who led the Swiss U-17 national team to the European championship in 2002 .

Career

society

The midfielder came from the youth of FC Winterthur to FC Basel , where he was accepted into the professional team. In the 2007/08 and 2008/09 seasons he played 49 games for FC Basel. Frei made his league debut on the first match day of the 2007/08 season on July 22, 2007 in a 1-0 win against FC Zurich . At that time, coach Christian Gross put him in the starting line-up. He scored his first league goal on December 4, 2008 in a 3-1 home win against FC Aarau in St. Jakob-Park . In 2008 he won both the national championship and the Swiss Cup; in the summer of 2008 I won the watch cup . At the beginning of July 2009 he was loaned to the Axpo Super League club FC St. Gallen for two years . There he should collect match practice. For the 2011/12 season he returned to Basel.

At the end of the 2012/13 season , Frei became Swiss champions for the third time with FC Basel and was in the final of the Swiss Cup , which they lost in the penalty shootout . In the UEFA Europa League 2012/13 he was eliminated with FC Basel in the semifinals against Champions League winners FC Chelsea . The season 2013/14 ended free with FC Basel again stood as a champion and in the final of the Swiss Cup , which was lost after extra time. The Champions League season ended for FC Basel after the group stage, but in the Europa League the team made it to the quarter-finals. Frei had a total of 66 appearances under coach Murat Yakin and scored seven goals. In the 2014/15 season, Frei won the championship with FC Basel. FC Basel was again in the final of the Swiss Cup and lost 3-0 to FC Sion . In the Champions League , FC Basel made it to the round of 16. Under the new coach Paulo Sousa Frei made a total of 56 appearances (four goals).

Since the 2015/16 season Frei has played for the German Bundesliga club 1. FSV Mainz 05 . He received a contract that runs until 2019. In the 2-2 draw against SV Werder Bremen on December 16, 2017, the 17th matchday of the 2017/18 season, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in stoppage time in his last Bundesliga appearance for 1. FSV Mainz 05.

During the 2017/18 winter break, Frei returned to FC Basel, where he received a contract that ran until June 30, 2022.

National team

From 2008 to 2011 Frei played for the Swiss U-21 team .

On October 7, 2011 he made his debut for the Swiss senior team in the European Championship qualifier at Liberty Stadium in Swansea against Wales . At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Swiss squad. He played his only European Championship game in the opening game against Albania when he came on in the final quarter of an hour. In the three remaining games until he was eliminated in the round of 16, he stayed on the bench.

titles and achievements

FC Basel

National team

Personal awards

  • In 2009, his goal in a 3-1 win against FC Aarau was voted “Swiss Goal of the Year” for 2008/09.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The secret of their success in football anzeiger.biz, accessed on August 10, 2015
  2. ↑ Dreaming in a St. Gallen dress from FC Basel joggeli.ch, accessed on August 10, 2015
  3. ↑ Match report ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the UEFA archives, uefa.com, accessed on 10 August 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / en.archive.uefa.com
  4. ↑ Match statistics FC Basel - FC Zurich 1: 0 (0: 0) on fussballdaten.de
  5. ↑ Many chances for three FC Basel goals on NZZ online from December 4, 2008
  6. ↑ FC Basel lends U21 internationals to St. Gallen from July 7, 2009 on Der Bund Online
  7. ↑ Fabian Frei back to FCB on SF Sport
  8. ↑ Michael Schifferle: Season Review: Switzerland . Eufa. 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
  9. ^ SFV: Telegram Swiss Cup Final . Swiss Football Association. 2013. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 20, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.football.ch
  10. ↑ Michael Schifferle: The miracle for Basel is missing . Eufa. 2013. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
  11. ↑ Rudi Wanner: Season Review: Switzerland . Eufa. 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  12. ↑ Josef Zindel: red blue: Yearbook 2014/2015 season . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7245-2027-6 .
  13. ↑ SFV: Swiss Cup - Würth Swiss Cup / Final - 07.06.2015 . SFV. 2015. Accessed June 7, 2015.
  14. ↑ Josef Zindel: red blue: Yearbook 2015/2016 season . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4 .
  15. ↑ Frei comes for four years mainz05.de, accessed on June 23, 2015
  16. ↑ Fabian Frei changes to 1. FSV Mainz 05 fcb.ch, accessed on June 23, 2015
  17. ↑ Frei lets Bremen's dream burst , match report on kicker.de, accessed on December 18, 2017.
  18. ↑ Fabian Frei returns to FCB , fcb.ch, December 23, 2017, accessed on December 23, 2017.
  19. ↑ Fabian Frei changes to FC Basel mainz05.de on December 23, 2017, accessed on December 29, 2017
  20. ↑ a b Two more titles for FCB youngsters . FC Basel 1893. 2006. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved on June 18, 2006.
  21. ↑ A great honor for Diego Benaglio and Seydou Doumbia on August 11, 2009 on transfermarkt.ch
personal data
SURNAME Free, Fabian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1989