Stéphane Houcine Nater (born 20 January 1984) is a

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who plays as a

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for Balzers. Born in France, he represented

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at international level, and also holds Swiss citizenship having spent much of his upbringing there.

Club career

Nater was transferred to St. Gallen, where he was formed as a youth player, after two years at

Servette FC Servette FC is a Swiss professional Association football, football club based in Geneva, founded in March 1890 with rugby as its first sporting activity, and named after the Geneva district of the same name. The football section was created on ...

, where he played one season in the Challenge League and one season in the top flight. In the summer of 2014, he joined

Club Africain Club Africain (), known as CA for short, is a Tunisian professional football club based in Tunis. The club was founded in 1920 and its colours are red and white. Their home stadium, Hammadi Agrebi Stadium, has a capacity of 60,000 spectators. ...

for his first spell in the Tunisian league, signing a two-year deal.

International career

Nater has joined to the Tunisian national team in November 2013. He was an unused substitute in the final 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against

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. His international debut was in a friendly match against

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on 5 March 2014.

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Stéphane Nater profile
at football.ch * 1984 births Living people Footballers from Troyes French men's footballers French sportspeople of Tunisian descent French emigrants to Switzerland Naturalised citizens of Switzerland Swiss people of Tunisian descent Swiss people of French descent Tunisian men's footballers 21st-century Tunisian sportsmen Swiss men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Swiss Super League players Swiss Challenge League players FC St. Gallen players FC Schaffhausen players GC Biaschesi players FC Chur 97 players FC Vaduz players Servette FC players Club Africain players Étoile Sportive du Sahel players FC Rapperswil-Jona players FC Balzers players SC Young Fellows Juventus players Tunisia men's international footballers Tunisian expatriate men's footballers French expatriate men's footballers Swiss expatriate men's footballers French expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein 2015 Africa Cup of Nations players 21st-century French sportsmen 21st-century Swiss sportsmen {{Tunisia-footy-midfielder-stub