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to

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in 1996. He played for 1860 for two seasons, playing 53 games in the 1. Bundesliga usually in the starting formation. He then moved on to

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in 1998, who at that time played in the

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. Walker was a regular starter for Tennis Borussia as well, making 55 appearances in his two seasons. Then Walker returned to the Nationalliga A with

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in 2000. He played his debut for them on 12 August 2000 in the 1–2 defeat in Stade de la Maladière (1924) against Xamax. But injuries stopped Walker's progress. After a herniated disc, he was not able to play a match from September 2000 to March 2001. Even after becoming fit again, he was by no means a first-team regular, playing just eight games in his first season and ten in his second. Therefore, Walker signed for

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in 2002 and here he never became a regular either. He went back to Germany in January 2004 with 1. FSV Mainz 05 but he struggled there as well. He played 17 games for Mainz in the first team and ten for the reserves. He then returned to Switzerland, ended his professional career and played for amateur club

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from 2005 until 2006 and then he retired from active football completely. Or nearly completely, while he was assistant trainer with FC Basel under head-coach

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in the friendly match on 27 April 2011 he was transferred in by his boss to replace

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who had injured himself. Basel were leading by one goal to nil at that moment, but the match ended with a 1–1 draw.

International career

In 1995, Walker's good form for

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earned him a call-up to the Swiss national team. He made his national debut in the European Championship qualifier against Turkey on 25 April 1995. The match ended with a 1–2 defeat. Between June 1996 and November 1997 he played another nine games for his country.

Coaching career

From 2005 to 2008 he worked as an assistant manager of

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's U18 squad. In 2007, he became assistant manager at

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alongside his job at

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where he worked as a fitness coach in various FCB junior teams. But on 16 January 2009, he was appointed as

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' assistant at

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. Gross was sacked soon after, however, and

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replaced him. Walker then became fitness coach and was still a part of the first team staff. In July 2014, he was appointed as talentmanager for

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. He worked in this position for one year, before he in July 2015 became assistant manager of

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. But as

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was appointed as Basel first team manager, Walker returned to the club as his assistant. On 18 May 2018 it was announced, that Walker would be the assistant manager of

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for the 2018/19 season. Walker decided to resign due to personal reasons already on 10 September 2018. On 21 March 2019, he was appointed as manager of

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. In the summer, in advance to the 2020–21 season Walker was appointed as head-coach for FC Naters. On 16 March 2021 he was hired by

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. He was fired by Sion on 7 October 2021 after a 2–6 loss to

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. Sion only achieved two ties in the last 5 games under Walker's helm and allowed 15 goals in those games. On 21 February 2022, he was announced as assistant coach of brand new

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coach Guille Abascal, replacing Boris Smiljanic.

References

Sources

W for Walker on FCSG-Data homepage
* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Marco 1970 births Living people People from Solothurn Swiss men's footballers Switzerland international footballers Association football defenders Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players FC Grenchen players FC Lugano players FC Basel players TSV 1860 Munich players Tennis Borussia Berlin players FC St. Gallen players FC Aarau players 1. FSV Mainz 05 players 1. FSV Mainz 05 II players BSC Old Boys players Swiss expatriate footballers FC Basel non-playing staff Swiss football managers FC Sion managers Swiss Super League managers Sportspeople from the canton of Solothurn