Marco Streller
Streller in 2006
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 18 June 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Basel, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1988–1997 | FC Aesch | ||
| 1997–2000 | FC Arlesheim | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2004 | FC Basel | 20 | (13) |
| 2001–2002 | → Concordia Basel (loan) | 30 | (16) |
| 2002–2003 | → FC Thun (loan) | 16 | (8) |
| 2004–2007 | VfB Stuttgart | 55 | (9) |
| 2006 | → 1. FC Köln (loan) | 14 | (3) |
| 2007–2015 | FC Basel | 213 | (98) |
| National team | |||
| 2001–2002 | Switzerland U-20 | 3 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | Switzerland U-21 | 13 | (6) |
| 2003–2011 | Switzerland | 37 | (12) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:33, 28 June 2015 (UTC). |
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Marco Streller (born 18 June 1981) is a retired Swiss footballer who played as a striker and is best known for his years with FC Basel and the Switzerland national team.
Streller was born in Basel and began his youth football with local club FC Aesch, coming through the ranks between 1988 and 1997. He then played three seasons for FC Arlesheim in the 2. Liga.
Streller started his professional football career with local club FC Basel under manager Christian Gross in 2000. He played his League debut in St. Jakob-Park being substituted in during the 66th Minute at St. Jakob-Park on 11 July 2001 in the 3–1 home win against Servette. Unluckily in the last minute of the game he scored an own goal, a deflected header, after Servette had taken the last corner kick.
This was to remain Streller's only game for Basel during this season because he was loaned to feeder club FC Concordia Basel for the rest of the season. He scored 16 goals in 30 starts in the Nationalliga B with Concordia, which made his home club and Gross sit up and take notice. They called him back in 2002, but after playing just three games was loaned out again in January of the following year to FC Thun. He scored eight goals in just 16 games for Thun and was subsequently recalled to Basel, being promised first team football.
During the 2003–04 Swiss Super League season, he scored 13 goals in 16 games, thus gathering the interest of a handful of Bundesliga clubs including VfB Stuttgart.
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