After over 600 games as a professional, Stephan Lichtsteiner looks to a future away from the turf square.
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In the Swiss national team, Lichtsteiner was a right-back in all five major finals.
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He also played the EM 2008 under Köbi Kuhn as a regular …
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… like the 2010 and 2014 World Championships under Ottmar Hitzfeld and the EURO 2016 and the 2018 World Cup under Vladimir Petkovic as Captain.
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At the beginning of his career: Lichtsteiner in the 2002 Hoppers dress.
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As the fourth player in the association’s history, Lichtsteiner (left) has made over 108 international matches since his debut on November 15, 2006 in a 2-1 draw against Brazil.
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At club level, Lichtsteiner shaped, among other things, the title-rich phase of Juventus Turin. With the “Old Lady” he was Italian champion seven times in a row between 2012 and 2018, and he won the Cup four times and the Supercup three times with Juve: In addition, Lichtsteiner was in the final of the Champions League in 2015 and 2017.
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Unforgettable: The cheers in the game against Serbia at the 2018 World Cup.
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Further entries in the palmarès of the father of two are the Swiss championship title in 2003 with the Grasshopper Club Zurich, as well as cup and Supercup victory with Lazio Rome (2009). The last international highlight in club football was qualifying for the UEFA Europa League final with Arsenal in spring 2019.
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Lichtsteiner on his interlude in the Premier League: “Arsenal was a challenge that I absolutely wanted to complete towards the end of my career. Overall, I think I can say that it was a logically structured career. ”
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Granit Xhaka hands Stephan Lichtsteiner the captain’s armband. This scene will no longer exist in the future.
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As captain, Stephan Lichtsteiner was one of the most important players in Vladimir Petkovic’s team
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Stephan Lichtsteiner most recently played for Augsburg in the German Bundesliga
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Stephan Lichtsteiner resigns
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After over 600 games as a professional, Stephan Lichtsteiner looks to a future away from the turf square.
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In the Swiss national team, Lichtsteiner was a right-back in all five major finals.
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He also played the EM 2008 under Köbi Kuhn as a regular …
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… like the 2010 and 2014 World Championships under Ottmar Hitzfeld and the EURO 2016 and the 2018 World Cup under Vladimir Petkovic as Captain.
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At the beginning of his career: Lichtsteiner in the 2002 Hoppers dress.
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As the fourth player in the association’s history, Lichtsteiner (left) has made over 108 international matches since his debut on November 15, 2006 in a 2-1 draw against Brazil.
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At club level, Lichtsteiner shaped, among other things, the title-rich phase of Juventus Turin. With the “Old Lady” he was Italian champion seven times in a row between 2012 and 2018, and he won the Cup four times and the Supercup three times with Juve: In addition, Lichtsteiner was in the final of the Champions League in 2015 and 2017.
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Unforgettable: The cheers in the game against Serbia at the 2018 World Cup.
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Further entries in the palmarès of the father of two are the Swiss championship title in 2003 with the Grasshopper Club Zurich, as well as cup and Supercup victory with Lazio Rome (2009). The last international highlight in club football was qualifying for the UEFA Europa League final with Arsenal in spring 2019.
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Lichtsteiner on his interlude in the Premier League: “Arsenal was a challenge that I absolutely wanted to complete towards the end of my career. Overall, I think I can say that it was a logically structured career. ”
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Granit Xhaka hands Stephan Lichtsteiner the captain’s armband. This scene will no longer exist in the future.
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As captain, Stephan Lichtsteiner was one of the most important players in Vladimir Petkovic’s team
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Stephan Lichtsteiner most recently played for Augsburg in the German Bundesliga
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The Swiss international Stephan Lichtsteiner is ending his career. The 36-year-old from Lucerne announced this at a media conference at the headquarters of the Swiss Football Association in Muri near Bern.
Lichtsteiner was most recently under contract with Bundesliga club Augsburg in the 2019/20 season. Previously, the 108-time Swiss international had been involved with the Grasshoppers (until 2005), Lille (2005 to 2008), Lazio Rome (2008 to 2001), Juventus Turin (2011 to 2018) and Arsenal (2018/19).
The right full-back played in four of the five top leagues in Europe. With Juventus Turin he was Italian champion seven times in a row. Lichtsteiner Palmarès has a total of 17 titles – 14 of them with Juventus.
Stephan Lichtsteiner:
«I was able to live my childhood dream, achieve great things and had a lot of fun doing it»
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Stephan Lichtsteiner – career stations
Image: Keystone
-> 2001 bis 2005: GC
-> 2005 to 2008: OSC Lille
-> 2008 bus 2011: Lazio Rom
-> 2011 bus 2018: Juventus Turin
-> 2018 bus 2019: Arsenal London
-> 2019 to 2020: Augsburg
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Lichtsteiner completed 108 international matches for Switzerland. Only Heinz Hermann (118) and Alain Geiger (112) have made more appearances. Under national coaches Köbi Kuhn, Ottmar Hitzfeld and Vladimir Petkovic, he contested a total of five World Cup and European Championship finals – most recently in 2016 and 2018 as captain.
How next? “I want to go two ways”
“If you’re allowed to play more than 100 international matches for your country, that makes you proud. Every single game was an honor. And each one felt as if it had been the first in terms of nervousness », says Lichtsteiner.
Stephan Lichtsteiner:
“Every tournament was an incredible event. I always felt a tingling sensation. It was a shame that we narrowly missed the quarter-finals in the last three finals, which were held at a high level. ”
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Lichtsteiner was denied a sixth final round due to the corona pandemic. The EM 2020 had to be postponed by a year. Lichtsteiner: “The plan would have been to resign after the EM in 2020. After UEFA decided to postpone the European Championship to 2021, I realized that the time had come and I didn’t want to add another year. “
Lichtsteiner does not yet know in detail what his future will look like. “I want to go two ways.” He is looking for challenges in the economic sector, says Lichtsteiner. But he also completes trainer courses and would like to obtain the relevant diplomas.
