Stéphane Chapuisat

Stéphane Chapuisat ( born June 28, 1969 in Lausanne, Switzerland ) is a former Swiss football player.

  • 2.1 In addition to the square
  • 2.2 On the square
  • 3.1 club teams
  • 3.2 national team
  • 3.3 Personal Awards and Statistics

Career as a player

Before his football career Chapuisat has completed an apprenticeship as a clerk in a trust office in Switzerland. Like his father, Pierre -Albert Chapuisat began " Chappi " as his nickname is his football career in 1987 at Lausanne Sports, where he soon led the Swiss scorers and made his debut in the Swiss national football team. In January 1991 Chapuisat moved to Bundesliga Bayer Uerdingen, where he scored four goals in ten games. Manager of Bayer 05 and initiator of the bill was then Felix Magath. After a serious injury at the beginning of time in Uerdingen and the descent of the Uerdinger Chapuisat but left the club after just half a year and was the 1991/92 season brought by new coach Ottmar Hitzfeld to Borussia Dortmund. He wore the number 9 on the jersey. In Dortmund he scored in the first year 20 goals in 37 games and quickly became a crowd favorite. With these 20 goals, he finished second place in the German top scorer and thus the shot Borussia Vice Championship.

In 1993, he contributed significantly to reaching the UEFA Cup final ( 0:3 and 1:3 against Juventus Turin) and scored 15 goals in the Bundesliga in 27 games. In 1994, he scored 17 goals in 30 league games, he also played with Switzerland at the 1994 World Cup, where he scored in the group game against Romania 2-1.

German champion and winning the Champions League with Borussia Dortmund

Despite a torn ACL in the spring of 1995, the Chapuisat drew upon himself in training, get him twelve goals in just 20 games, which he was instrumental in winning the German Cup Borussia Dortmund in the 1994/95 season.

Through this torn ACL he also missed the entire qualifying for the European Championship in 1996 with the Swiss national team. Nevertheless, and although he scored in the 1995/96 season only three goals in 17 games, he was eventually used in the final round.

1997, his highlight followed in club football: Chapuisat won with Borussia Dortmund UEFA Champions League, as they defeated in the final at the Munich Olympic Stadium Juventus 3-1. Unforgettable is his overhead kick template for header from Karl Heinz Riedle in the quarterfinals against the former French champion AJ Auxerre. In the Bundesliga, he scored in the 1996/ 97 in 30 games or 13 goals. In the 1997/98 season he scored 14 goals in 27 league games and won the World Cup in Tokyo, where Dortmund Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte defeated Brazil 2-0. In addition, Borussia Dortmund reached the Champions League semi-final. In a memorable German - German quarterfinals Dortmund had defended two games with all hands against Bayern Munich; Bavaria was returned to form, but in the second leg shot Chapuisat in the extension of the 1-0 ( first leg 0-0). The goal gave Bayern president Franz Beckenbauer to incandescence and BVB semi-finals against Real Madrid. The semi-finals went as " Torfall of Madrid " also in the history books, because shortly before the game had Madrid fans made ​​a goal to collapse. The game kicked off with a half hour delay and Dortmund retired after a 0:2 from ( second leg 0-0).

After his last year at Borussia Dortmund 1998/99, in the still get eight goals and three assists for BVB him, he moved back to Switzerland to the Grasshoppers Zurich.

Balance

In his 228 missions he scored 106 league goals and conceding 21 yellow cards. He is behind Claudio Pizarro and Giovane Elber and together with Aílton the third most successful foreign scorer in the history of the Bundesliga. The 106 goals represent an excellent average of 0.47 goals per game. There are also 4 goals in 16 DFB Cup matches and a total of 16 goals in 44 European Cup games.

Grasshopper Zurich, Young Boys Bern and Lausanne- Sports

From 1999 to 2002 he played for Grasshopper Zurich, with whom he also won his first Swiss Championship 2001. In the 2000 /01 season he was top scorer in the Swiss Super League with 21 goals. In 2002 he moved finally to the Young Boys Bern, with whom he Swiss runner was in the 2003/04 season yet. With Bern he was again this year Swiss scorer with 23 goals.

On 29 May 2005 Chapuisat played his last game for the Young Boys Bern against FC Schaffhausen. He hit it to 1:0 ( Full 4:1). For the season 2005/ 06 he moved despite the announced resignation surprisingly to his hometown club FC Lausanne-Sport in the Challenge League, where he, in which Lausanne-Sport almost done finally after last season thanks to numerous goals from Chapuisat promotion to the Super League would have ended his career for good.

National

With the national team of Switzerland, he worked at the 1994 World Cup in the United States, the European Championships in England in 1996 and Euro 2004 in Portugal.

Despite its " high " age Chapuisat long remained a mainstay in the national team. His 100th international game he played in June 2004 against Germany. His last international 103 and followed in the same month at the 2004 European Cup against England. After Euro 2004 Chapuisat announced his retirement from the national team. In his 103 international matches he scored 21 goals.

Following the resignation

Off the pitch

After his departure from active football Stéphane Chapuisat was appointed by the Foundation SOS Children's Villages and FIFA FIFA ambassador for SOS Children's Villages on January 10, 2007. Besides Kubilay Türkyilmaz, who has been working since 2001 as FIFA / SOS Ambassador, will work in the future Chapuisat for the concerns of children in need. At the 2008 European Stéphane Chapuisat was as ambassador to numerous promotional events go. His work as president of Lausanne-Sport he has now ended.

On the square

Chapuisat playing in the senior team of FC Malley Lausanne. Prior to the 2008 European Championships he went to the Swiss Legend team against the celebrities of the match and against the Austrian legend team.

In 2008 he took up the post of Technical Director, Striker coach and scout for BSC Young Boys.

Achievements

Club teams

  • 2 x German Champion: 1995, 1996 with Borussia Dortmund
  • 1 × German Vice-Champion: 1992 with Borussia Dortmund
  • 2 × DFB - Supercup winner: 1995, 1996 with Borussia Dortmund
  • 3 × German indoor champion: 1991, 1992, 1999 with Borussia Dortmund

National

Personal Awards and Statistics

  • 2 × Swiss scorer: 2001, 2004
  • 4 × Swiss Footballer of the Year: 1992, 1993, 1994, 2001

With 106 gates is Chapuisat, together with the Brazilian Aílton, and behind the Brazilian Giovane Élber (133 goals) and the Peruvian Claudio Pizarro ( 147 goals) the third most successful foreign scorer in the Bundesliga football history. He was the first foreigner ever to have broken the 100 - goal mark. (As of October 21, 2011 ).

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