Andreas Wittwer

Andreas Wittwer (2011)

Career

In his early youth played Andreas Wittwer, a trained defenders, eight years for BSC Young Boys, most recently for the U18. In September 2007 he moved to FC Thun, where he was employed for one year exclusively in the U21 before you set it up for the first time in summer 2008 for the first team that was relegated this year in the Challenge League. In his first year as a professional, he played ten games for the Fanionteam the Bernese Oberland, where he initially appeared only as a substitute. In the following season 2009/10 he finally came on 21 missions during which he scored two goals that he scored in each case after a Substitutes in the second half. FC Thun was this season Challenge League champions and rose to the Axpo Super League. Already in March 2010, communicated the FC Thun, that the contract with Andreas Wittwer was prematurely extended by two years until 30 June 2013. On 22 April 2013, the FC Thun announced that the contract with Andreas Wittwer has been extended until the summer of 2015.

At the beginning of the season 2010/11 it became clear that the 20 -year-old widower would initially continue to have the Joker role in coach Murat Yakin. The defender has been changed regularly to late game stand against offensive forces, claiming in each case - as sporadically as early as the season before - to varying positions. He came not only as a wing back to the train, but also in the outer midfield and as a (left ) hanging tip - a position he already held in the starting lineup.

Since the tuna had risen U21 in the season 2009/10 interregional from the second division to the first league ( third-highest division), also increased the requirements to the junior team in the current season. Andreas Wittwer was brought back from the fourth round of youth coach Rüdiger Böhm now and again to gain in the U21, where he played 90 minutes. In the preliminary round, thus Wittwer denied beside his eleven appearances for the first team and eight games for the second team ( for the latter, he scored five goals). There, too, his operations were not limited to the role of defender. 14 November 2010 the defenders managed something that is not self-evident, even for striker. At the match FC Thun U21 against SV Muttenz, he scored a hat-trick. In addition, the assists were the 5-3 victory of Thun for the first two goals to his account.

A month before the transfer of the former Thun Topscorers Ezequiel Oscar Scarione became public to FC St. Gallen to coach Murat Yakin expressed on the question of whether striker search one is to the effect already that he and the midfielders Stephan Andrist and Mirson Volina, the nominal defender Andreas Wittwer viable alternatives for Scarione see. Since the departure Scariones Wittwer now receives actually more playing time in the first team.

National

Andreas Wittwer was first included in the squad of a national team in 2010. As a member of the Switzerland U -20 defender has played two matches against Germany and Italy. But also in the national team, he came not as a defender for use, but in two games as a hanging tip.