Marco Streller

Marco Streller (born 18 June 1981 in Basel) is a Swiss international footballer who plays as a striker for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.

Club career

Streller started his professional football career with local club FC Basel in 2000, but played just one game in his debut season. For the next season he was loaned to feeder club FC Concordia Basel. He scored 16 goals in 30 starts in the Challenge League with Concordia that season, which made his home club 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. Stuttgart eventually signed him ahead of the 2004–05 season. During his debut on 14 March 2004 he also scored his first goal for the VFB. But after returning from an injury he scored just four goals in 28 matches in his two years in Stuttgart. Therefore and to gain match practice, he was loaned out to 1. FC Köln for ther second half of the 2006 season. After returning from Köln, where he made 14 starts, Streller scored five goals in 27 games as Stuttgart won the Championship, but he still failed to impress the board.

Stuttgart therefore allowed Streller to...
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