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Alain Sutter
Personal information
Full name	Alain Sutter
Date of birth	22 January 1968 (1968-01-22) (age 41)
Place of birth	Bern, Switzerland
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1985–1993 1987–1988 1993–1994 1994–1995 1995–1997 1997–1998	Grasshoppers → Young Boys (loan) Nuremberg Bayern Freiburg Dallas Burn Total	202 (36) 028 0(5) 029 0(5) 022 0(1) 045 0(5) 025 0(2) 351 (54)
National team
1986–1996	Switzerland	068 0(5)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Alain Sutter (born 22 January 1968 in Bern) was one of the most successful Swiss football players during the 1990s.

Sutter began his career in 1985 with Grasshoppers Zurich, one of Switzerland's most storied clubs. After spending the 1987–88 season on loan to Young Boys Bern, he was ready to take his place in the Grasshoppers first team, where he remained until the 1993-1994 season, when he decided to move to Germany to play with Nuremberg.

After Sutter's impressive performances during the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Germany's most successful club, Bayern Munich, quickly signed the midfielder where he played for one season, before moving again this time to Freiburg. In 1997 he transfered to Major League Soccer in the United States, where he signed for the Dallas Burn (now FC Dallas). He played one season in Dallas but his tenure there was cut short when, during training in early 1998, he stepped akwardly in a hole of the practice field (the Burn was using the facilities of a high school at that time) and the injury forced him to retire. He ended his career with 68 caps and five goals for the Swiss national team.

Currently he works as an expert commentary when Swiss TV shows important matches.

[edit] Scandals

Alain Sutter was the main force behind a scandal in 1995. Before an important match for the Swiss team, he unfolded a banner to protest against France testing the atom bomb. 

[edit] References

• Alain Sutter at National-Football-Teams.com
• FIFA.com profile

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