Stéphane Grichting Explained

Stéphane Grichting
Fullname:Stéphane Grichting[1]
Height:1.87 m
Birth Date:30 March 1979
Birth Place:Sierre, Switzerland
Position:Defender
Youthyears1:1993–1996
Youthclubs1:Sion
Years1:1996–2002
Clubs1:Sion
Caps1:124
Goals1:5
Years2:2002–2012
Caps2:250
Goals2:1
Years3:2012–2015
Caps3:89
Goals3:0
Totalcaps:463
Totalgoals:6
Nationalyears1:2004–2011
Nationalteam1:Switzerland
Nationalcaps1:45
Nationalgoals1:1

Stéphane Grichting (born 30 March 1979) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a defender.

He earned 36 caps for the Swiss national team,[2] and was called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup squads. He was in the squad for the 2004 European Football Championship, but pulled out due to injury.

After Switzerland beat Turkey in the deciding qualifier to 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was injured in the riots that occurred after the match.

At the end of the 2014–15 season, he retired from professional football at the age of 36.[3]

International goals

|-|1||5 September 2009||St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland||||1–0||2–0||2010 WCQ|}

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Switzerland . FIFA . 27 . 21 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190610174527/https://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf . 10 June 2019.
  2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/groups_and_teams/team/switzerland
  3. News: Stéphane Grichting, der schweigsame Cowboy, tritt zurück. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 27 August 2016. German. 8 March 2015.