Marco Streller

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Marco Streller
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Marco Streller (2008)
Personnel
birthday June 18, 1981
place of birth Basel ,  Switzerland
Size 195 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1988-1997 FC Aesch
1997-2000 FC Arlesheim
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2004 FC Basel 20 (13)
2001-2002 →  Concordia Basel  (loan) 30 (16)
2002-2003 →  FC Thun  (loan) 16 0(8)
2004-2007 VfB Stuttgart 55 0(9)
2006 →  1. FC Köln  (loan) 14 0(3)
2007-2015 FC Basel 213 (98)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001-2002 Switzerland U-20 3 0(0)
2002-2003 Switzerland U-21 13 0(6)
2003-2011 Switzerland 37 (12)
1 Only league games are given.
Marco Streller at the championship celebration of VfB Stuttgart 2007

Marco Streller (born June 18, 1981 in Basel ) is a former Swiss football player who was used in the storm . Since June 2017 he has been a member of the board of the FC Basel and since February 2020 a football expert at the Swiss pay broadcaster Teleclub . After his active career, he took over the office of sports director at FC Basel in June 2017 , but resigned on June 14, 2019 with immediate effect.

As a player in the club

Basel, Concordia, Thun

Streller played in his youth at FC Aesch and FC Arlesheim. He started his professional career in 2000 at FC Basel when he was used once under coach Christian Gross . In the following season he was loaned to the Swiss second division club Concordia Basel , where he attracted attention with 16 goals in 30 games. Streller was then brought back from FC Basel, but after three missions in January 2002 in the National League B to FC Thun . For the 2003/04 season he returned to FC Basel, where he scored 13 goals in 16 games.

Stuttgart, Cologne

With this achievement he aroused the interest of some clubs in the German Bundesliga . Streller finally signed a four-year contract with VfB Stuttgart , for an estimated transfer fee of three million euros. Streller scored his first Bundesliga goal on March 14, 2004 in his first game in the VfB starting line-up against 1860 Munich in the 35th minute. Stopped by a serious injury, he lost his regular place with the Swabians . Until then he had played 28 Bundesliga appearances and scored 3 goals. In order to give him more playing practice again, the VfB officials decided to loan him out.

On January 11, 2006, the striker was loaned to 1. FC Köln , but returned to VfB for the 2006/07 season , with whom he was German champion this season . Since he was mostly just a substitute player in Stuttgart, Streller decided to return to FC Basel for the 2007/08 season .

Basel

Streller found his old strength in Basel and scored 12 goals in 23 games in his first season after his return from Germany. At the end of the season he had won both the championship and the cup competition with FC Basel and thus the double . But he also struggled with injuries in Basel and was therefore unable to play all the games in the second half of the season.

In the seasons 2009/10 and 2010/11 Marco Streller was again Swiss champion with FC Basel.

From the 2011/12 season Marco Streller was the new captain of FC Basel, replacing Franco Costanzo , who had left the club. At the end of the season, Streller became Swiss champions again with FC Basel.

At the end of the 2012/13 season , Streller became Swiss champions for the sixth time with FC Basel and the team reached the cup final , which they only lost in the penalty shoot-out. In the UEFA Europa League 2012/13 he made it to the semi-finals with FC Basel, where he played against the reigning UEFA Champions League winner FC Chelsea . Due to defeats in the home and away games, they were eliminated with an overall result of 2-5. In a long season with a total of 76 games (36 in the Super League, 6 in the Cup, 20 in the Champions League and Europa League, as well as 14 test games) he had a total of 62 appearances, of which 32 in the Super League, 3 in the Cup and 17 Appearances in the Champions and Europa League.

The 2013/14 season was very successful for Streller and FC Basel. The team finished the 2013/14 football championship as champions and was repeatedly in the final of the Swiss Cup , which was lost after extra time. Basel's Champions League season ended after the group stage, but in the Europa League it advanced to the quarter-finals. FCB played 68 games (36 championship, 6 cups, 10 Champions League and 6 Europa League, as well as 10 test games). Streller had a total of 44 appearances under coach Murat Yakin , including 25 in the Super League, 3 in the Cup, 8 in the Champions and 2 in the Europa League, as well as 6 in test matches. He scored 18 goals (10 championship, cup, 1 Champions League and 3 Europa League, as well as 3 in friendly matches).

The 2014/15 season was also very successful for Streller and FC Basel. The team finished the 2014/15 football championship for the 18th time as champions . Streller became Swiss champions for the sixth time in a row with FC Basel. They ended the season with 12 points ahead of second placed BSC Young Boys and 25 points ahead of third placed FC Zurich . Basel was repeatedly in the final of the Swiss Cup , which was lost 3-0 to FC Sion . In the 2014/15 Champions League season , Basel advanced to the round of 16.

During the 2014/15 season, FC Basel played a total of 65 games (36 championship, 6 cups, 8 Champions League and 15 test games). Under coach Paulo Sousa , Streller had a total of 40 appearances, including 24 in the Super League, 1 in the Cup, 5 in the Champions League and 10 in friendly matches. He scored 20 goals (12 in the Super League, 1 in the Champions League and 7 in test matches).

As a player in the national team

Streller in the jersey of the Swiss national team (2006)

In the years 2003-2011 Marco Streller was a striker in the Swiss national team .

Before a test match between the national team and Germany , Streller was seriously injured in training, broke his shin and fibula and fell out for a long time.

In the last qualifying game for the 2006 World Cup on November 16, 2005, Streller scored the decisive second goal in the barge game against the Turkish national team for his home country after he had previously owed a penalty . With his goal the qualification was finally achieved despite the 2: 4 away defeat in the overall comparison. This was Streller's first goal in the Swiss jersey .

In the first knockout round defeat of the Swiss national team at the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany against the selection of Ukraine missed Streller in the penalty shoot the first awarded by a total of three penalty shoot-outs.

In the international match against the German national team on February 7, 2007, he scored the 1: 3 final score. Despite the goals, Streller had to fight for a regular place in the national team until the European Championship in 2008 . His strongest opponent as the second striker alongside Alexander Frei was his Basel team-mate Eren Derdiyok . Both were finally nominated for the Swiss squad for the Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland.

After whistling and screaming in the preparatory games, Streller announced on May 31, 2008 that he would no longer play for the national team after the 2008 European Championship. But already on June 17th, the resignation of the resignation became known. Streller was retuned by the new national coach Ottmar Hitzfeld .

During the EM 2008 Streller came to use in the opening game against the Czech Republic . It could not be used because of problems in the groin region . At the World Cup 2010 in South Africa Streller could not attend because on May 26, 2010, he is a torn muscle in the left thigh drew upon.

Since the Swiss national team was heavily criticized after the 0-0 in the Euro 2012 qualifier against Bulgaria , Marco Streller and his strike partner Alex Frei announced their immediate resignation from the national team on April 5, 2011.

On September 1, 2014, in the first edition of the Brack.ch football arena, Marco Streller confirmed that he would still not be available for the national team under the new national coach Vladimir Petkovic .

Career as a club official

From June 2017 he was sports director and member of the board of directors and the club board of FC Basel. He resigned from the office of sports director in June 2019 and as a member of the board of directors in September 2019. He is still a member of the association's board.

Others

After retiring from active elite sport in spring 2015, he worked for Swiss radio and television as an expert on broadcasts of the Champions League from August 2015 to May 2017 . He was also one of nine experts who commented on the games from the TV studio during the 2016 European Football Championship in France.

Marco Streller is married, has a son and a daughter and lives with his family in the Basel area.

titles and achievements

FC Basel

VfB Stuttgart

National team

Web links

Commons : Marco Streller  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fix: MARCO STRELLER BECOMES A NEW TELECLUB SOCCER EXPERT. teleclub.ch , February 24, 2020, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Fix: This is how the FCB declares Streller's resignation. blick.ch , June 14, 2019, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ FC Basel are Swiss champions . Day indicator. 2008. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008. Retrieved May 10, 2008.
  4. ↑ FC Basel are Swiss champions . www.fussball.ch. May 25, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
  5. ↑ Marco Streller new FCB captain . www.fcb.ch. July 7, 2011. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012. Retrieved on July 12, 2011.
  6. ↑ Michael Schifferle: Season Review: Switzerland . UEFA.com. 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
  7. ^ SFV: Telegram Swiss Cup Final . Swiss Football Association. 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  8. ↑ Michael Schifferle: The miracle for Basel is missing . UEFA.com. 2013. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
  9. ↑ Rudi Wanner: Season Review: Switzerland . UEFA.com. 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  10. ↑ Josef Zindel: red blue: Yearbook 2014/2015 season . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7245-2027-6 .
  11. ↑ SFV: Swiss Cup - Würth Swiss Cup / Final - 07.06.2015 . SFV. 2015. Accessed June 7, 2015.
  12. ↑ Josef Zindel: red blue: Yearbook 2015/2016 season . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4 .
  13. ↑ Hitzfeld retorts Streller . Kicker.de. June 17, 2008. Retrieved June 26, 2008.
  14. ↑ Torn muscle fiber: World Cup out for Streller . UEFA.com. May 27, 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  15. ↑ Frei and Streller let Hitzfeld down. In: Tages-Anzeiger . April 5, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
  16. ↑ brack.ch Fussball Arena (1st episode, September 1st, 2014) on YouTube , accessed on September 17, 2014.
  17. ↑ https://www.blick.ch/sport/fussball/superleague/er-bleibt-verwaltungsrat-so-erklaert-der-fcb-den-streller-ruecktritt-id15373327.html
  18. ^ Streller is new to the SRF Champions Leauge team. FC Basel, August 4, 2015, accessed on June 29, 2017 .
  19. ↑ «We were completely of the same opinion» . NZZ. January 29, 2012. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
  20. ↑ Marco Streller: "Building up young doesn't mean having eight in the starting line-up" . watson.ch. July 19, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
  21. ↑ personally by Claudia Lässer from 09/30/2015: guest Marco Streller . vimeo. September 30, 2015. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Streller, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel