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Urs Suter (born 4 March 1959 in
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) is a
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former
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who played as a
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.


Football career

Suter started his football with the youth teams of the local football club FC Langnau am Albis before moving on to
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. He played in their youth team and later in their reserve side. During the 1980–81 and 1981–82 seasons he played for
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in the Swiss 1. Liga. Urs Suter signed his first professional contract with promoted
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in 1981. During his first season he was the reserve goalkeeper and did not come to any playing time, but the team won promotion. In the 1982–83 season Suter became first keeper and played 29 games. Suter joined
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in their 1983–84 season under head-coach
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. After playing in seven test games Suter played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 10 August 1983 as Basel were defeated 2–4 by
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. With Basel he won the
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in 1983 and 1986. Suter played in Basel for five seasons, until the team was relegated after a very disappointing 1987–88 season. His team mates included defenders
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and
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and Swiss national team players such as
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,
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and
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. Despite this personally strongly occupied team Basel were relegated to the Nationalliga B after the
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season. During this time Suter played a total of 219 games for Basel. 138 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, 14 in the
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and 67 were friendly games. At that point he transferred to
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and played there for four years. During the season 1989–90 Suter won promotion with Zürich to the Nationalliga A. In the 1992–93 season, Suter again played for FC Wettingen, but at the end of the season the club was dissolved due to financial reasons. So Suter moved, as semi-professional, to
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in the 1. Liga. The team won the Group championship and were promoted to the Challenge League (then named Nationalliga B). However, a year later the team was placed last in the division and were relegated. Again a year later they were 1. Liga Group winners, but failed in the play-off promotion game with 0:2 against
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. Suter played in Tuggen five years and retired in 1998, concluding his football career with FC Wollishofen in the lower divisions.


Honours

Basel * Uhrencup Winner: 1983, 1986 Zürich * Promotion to Nationalliga A: 1989–90 Tuggen * Group Champions Swiss 1. Liga and Promotion to Nationalliga B: 1993–94 * Group Champions 1. Liga: 1995–96


Personal Information

Urs Suter is married to Jacqueline. They have two daughters Kerstin und Senja. Today Suter lives in Zürich and works as a sales representative for an electric lighting company.


References


Sources

* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Suter, Urs 1959 births Living people Footballers from Zürich Swiss men's footballers FC Wettingen players FC Basel players FC Zürich players Association football goalkeepers