Benjamin Lüthi
Benjamin Luthi (born 30 November 1988) is a Swiss football player.
Career
Benjamin Luthi comes from the talent of FC Thun. On July 20, 2003 met the midfielder, who competes preferred on the right outer rail, for the Bernese Oberland club. He first went through successfully all junior stations up to the U- 21st He won, for example, in the 2004/05 season with his teammates the U-19 championship. On July 29, 2006 Lüthi came in the Axpo Super League, the highest Swiss league, on his debut for the first team. In the match against Grasshopper Club Zurich he came on in the 57th minute. The then 17 -year-old, which to this day a healthy aggressiveness is said already saw four minutes later, the first yellow card of his professional career. In late summer, he then retired for the first time to a serious injury. In a game, there was a collision with another player and Lüthi lay unconscious with a concussion and a blood clot in the brain.
Under the former coach Heinz Peischl denied Lüthi 2006/ 07 three more games in the Super League. Under Peischls successor René van Eck, the young players did so initially difficult, also because of further injury. During the 2007/ 08 season, the midfielder came only six Championship appearances for the first team and reinforced increases the U- 21st
Abruptly followed a difficult period for the Bernese Oberland club. Although the FC Thun denied on February 27, 2008 or the Cup semi-final against FC Basel, but lost that as well as the fight against the looming, forced relegation to the second- highest division. So it was that the new FC Thun took in the Challenge League from the 2008/09 season.
This season, Benjamin Luthi belonged then to the starting eleven. In summer 2009, he was injured and fell for two months, but was then reinstated regularly and developed in the second half of 2009/10 did to one of the service providers. The Bernese Oberland club in 2010 Challenge League champions and went, thanks in Lüthi's services in the Axpo Super League on.
Lüthi originally to 2011 ongoing contract was prematurely extended the end of May 2010 to 2013.
Achievements
- 2004/ 05 U-19 champion with FC Thun U-19
- 2009/10 Challenge League champions with FC Thun
Private
Benjamin Lüthi's father Markus Lüthi since October 2, 2012 President of FC Thun and thus joined until two years after his son to the Bernese Oberland Football Club.