Marco Zwyssig

Marco Zwyssig

Personal information
Full name	Marco Zwyssig
Date of birth	(1971-10-24) 24 October 1971
Place of birth	St. Gallen, Switzerland
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993–1996	Gossau	50	(4)
1996–2001	St. Gallen	139	(10)
2001–2002	Tirol Innsbruck	20	(4)
2002–2005	Basel	93	(3)
Total		302	(21)
International career
2000–2004	Switzerland	20	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marco Zwyssig (born 24 October 1971) is a Swiss former professional footballer defender. He is best remembered for his time at FC St. Gallen and FC Basel. He also played for the Switzerland national football team.

Football career

Marco Zwyssig started his football career at local club FC Gossau in the city St. Gallen. Zwyssig greatly impressed there and in 1996 he signed for the city's biggest club, FC St. Gallen. He continued to play well, even at a higher level, and received a call up to the Switzerland national team in 2000 after his sides 1999–2000 title win. He then moved to Austrian Bundesliga club FC Wacker Tirol in 2001 where he won the Championship in the 2001–02 season. Wacker Tirol went bankrupt, however, and were forced to sell their most valuable players; Zwyssig enevitabley left, signing for FC Basel in 2002. At Basel he won the Championship in 2002 and 2004 as well as being part of their famous 2002–03 UEFA Champions League squad where they made it to the second group stage. He retired with Basel in 2005 after playing nearly 100 games for the club.

He played for the national team between 2000 and 2004 but never really broke into the first team due to the amount of competition for places. He got 20 caps and 1 goal and was an unused substitute at the 2004 European Football Championship.

Trivia

• Zwyssig studied business economics with a focus on marketing at the University of St. Gallen and graduated in 1997.

External links

• Marco Zwyssig at National-Football-Teams.com