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Alexandre Rey (born 22 September 1972) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a striker during the 1990s and 2000s. He is best known for his spells at Servette FC and Neuchâtel Xamax.

Alexandre Rey

Personal information
Date of birth	(1972-09-22) 22 September 1972 (age 50)
Place of birth	Switzerland
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1994	Sion	65	(23)
1994–1996	FC Basel	61	(15)
1996–1997	Sion	5	(0)
1997–2001	Servette	132	(54)
2001–2002	FC Luzern	16	(5)
2002–2006	Neuchâtel Xamax	122	(49)
Total		401	(146)
International career
1998–2005	Switzerland	18	(5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Club

Born in Sion, Rey played his youth football and began playing football professionally in 1991 with local club FC Sion, helping the club win the Swiss Cup in 1991 and the Swiss championship in the 1991–92 Nationalliga A season.[1]

Rey joined FC Basel's first team for their 1994–95 season under head coach Claude Andrey. After playing in seven test games Rey played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game in the St. Jakob Stadium on 27 July 1994 as Basel were defeated 0–1 by Lugano.[2] He scored his first goal for the club on 21 September in the home game against his former club Sion, but this could not help the team, as Basel lost the game 1–2.[3] In the Swiss Cup round 3 match on 23 September 1995 Rey scored a hattrick within 40 minutes of the match against FC Subingen. In fact, he scored four goals as Basel won 6–1 to continue to the next round.[4]

He stayed with the club for two seasons and during this time Rey played a total of 89 games for Basel scoring a total of 32 goals. 61 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, 6 in the Swiss Cup, 4 in the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup and 18 were friendly games. He scored 16 goals in the domestic league, 6 in the Cup, 2 in the UIC and the other 9 were scored during the test games.[5]

He returned to Sion ahead of the 1996–97 season. Although he was a success during his first spell at the club, Rey struggled to win a place in the starting eleven, playing just five games in six months, and left for Servette FC in January 1997. He was a major hit at Servette, playing the best football of his career and earning a call-up to the Switzerland squad. After making 132 appearances and scoring 54 goals for the club, Rey left to join FC Luzern in January 2001. He signed for Neuchâtel Xamax the following January and proved to be a good signing as he went on to score almost fifty goals for the club before his retirement in 2006.

International

Alexandre Rey was capped 18 times for the Swiss national team, scoring five goals. He made his international debut as a substitute against Hungary at the Ferenc Puskás Stadium in Budapest on 18 November 1998. He went on to make another fourteen appearances for Switzerland between then and 2001 when he was no longer included in the squad. He made a comeback to the national team when he replaced the suspended Alexander Frei and scored a hat-trick in the match against the Faroe Islands on 4 September 2004.

References

Sources

• Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
• Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage

External links

• Alexandre Rey at National-Football-Teams.com

На других языках

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[de] Alexandre Rey

Alexandre Rey (* 22. September 1972 in Sion) ist ein ehemaliger Schweizer Fussballspieler.

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- [en] Alexandre Rey

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[fr] Alexandre Rey

Alexandre Rey est un joueur de football suisse[1] né à Sion le 22 septembre 1972.

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[it] Alexandre Rey

Alexandre Rey (Sion, 22 settembre 1972) è un ex calciatore svizzero, di ruolo attaccante che dal 2012 è direttore del settore giovanile del Neuchâtel Xamax.

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