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Benjamin Huggel is a Swiss association football midfielder, born in Dornach on 7 July 1977. Playing as a defensive midfielder, he had a career spanning 1998 to 2012 and represented Switzerland at UEFA Euro 2004, UEFA Euro 2008 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Huggel played for FC Basel, Eintracht Frankfurt and the Switzerland national team, holds Swiss citizenship, and speaks German.
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Key facts
- Date of birth
- ( 1977-07-07 ) 7 July 1977 (age 48)
- Place of birth
- Dornach , Switzerland
- Height
- 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
- Position
- Defensive midfielder
- 1987 1996
- FC Münchenstein
- 1996 1998
- FC Arlesheim
- Years
- Team
- 1998 2005
- Basel
- 2005 2007
- Eintracht Frankfurt
- 2007 2012
- Basel
- 2003 2010
- Switzerland
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Defensive Midfield
- Nationality
- Switzerland
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Benjamin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Dornach
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 2008
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- FC Basel
- Position played
- midfielder
- League
- Bundesliga
- Country for sport
- Switzerland
- Mass
- 89
- Image
- Benjamin Huggel.JPG
- Height
- 190
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- Benjamin Huggel
- date of birth
- 1977-07-07
- end of work period
- 2012-00-00
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- name in native language
- Benjamin Huggel
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Encyclopedic overview
Benjamin "Beni" Huggel (born 7 July 1977) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League and for Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga.
He won a total of twelve titles with Basel, seven League Championships and five Swiss Cup titles. He played in four Swiss Cup Finals (he missed one due to an injury) and scored a goal in each Final. For Frankfurt he played in the 2006 DFB-Pokal Final, but the team finished as runner-up. Huggel played 41 times as a Swiss international scoring two goals, the second of which being the 1000th goal in the history of the Swiss national team. He was well known because of his height, his strength and for being a fearless fighter in the centre of the pitch. He now works for Basel as assistant trainer for the U-21 team.
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