Andreas Hilfiker

Andreas Hilfiker ( born February 11, 1969 in Aarau ) is a retired Swiss football goalkeeper and current goalkeeping coach.

Career

In 1986, Hilfiker from his youth club FC Kölliken in the offspring of FC Aarau. In 1997 he joined the German 2nd Bundesliga promoted 1.FC Nürnberg. There he delivered himself with Rainer Berg and Christoph Müller a three-way battle for the place between the posts. Therefore, he came in his first year in Germany on 18 second division games. After the march through the Association had succeeded in the Bundesliga, he had at the beginning of the season held the regular place, but he lost from the winter break at the newly obligated Andreas Kopke. Thus he came to 17 Erstligapartien.

In 1999 he moved to Tennis Borussia Berlin in the Bundesliga 2. There he was first-choice goalkeeper and reached with the club to 13th place. After the withdrawal of licenses for TeBe he moved to Erstligaabsteiger SSV Ulm 1846, where he replaced Philipp Laux, who had moved to Borussia Dortmund. Again, he was a regular goalkeeper, but was at the end of the season, as the descent into the amateur camp was almost inevitable, replaced by the young talent Holger Betz.

2001 was Hilfiker short time without a club, was then obliged by FC Vaduz. There, he pushed Javier Crespo, who then went to Chur 97. Hilfiker played for the Liechtenstein a season in the National League B, before he moved to FC Luzern. In 2004 he went to train 94 FC, ​​where he played until May 2005.

In May 2005, he ended his active career and was goalkeeping coach at FC Thun. For the season 2007/ 08 Hilfiker was obliged by FC Aarau as goalkeeper trainer in the winter break, he moved to VfL Wolfsburg.