Bernt Haas (born 8 April 1978) is a former Swiss

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defender.

Career

Haas was born in

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, Austria. He began his career at Grasshoppers Zurich, where he played for several seasons before moving to England to join

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club

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in August 2001. Despite making 27 appearances for the club in 2001–02, he did not play for Sunderland during the following season and was loaned out to

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...

. Haas joined

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in 2003, and was a regular at right-back as Albion were promoted back to the Premier League. He scored with a superb volley in the 2–0 League Cup win against

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, having already scored in an earlier round against Brentford. He also scored once in the league against Crewe. However, he found his chances limited in the top-flight, and left the club by mutual consent on 21 January 2005. The following day he signed for

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in France, whom he played for prior to joining

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. After just one season at Cologne, he joined

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club

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in 2007. Haas played for the Swiss national team at

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and was sent off in the match against

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Post-retirement

Following his retirement in 2010, he functioned as director of football for Lichtensteiner club

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from 2015 until 2018. Between 2020 and 2022, he functioned as Sporting Director at

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side

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. On July 1 2022, he was appointed Sporting Director of his former club

Grasshopper Club Zürich Grasshopper Club Zürich, commonly referred to as simply GC, GCZ, or Grasshoppers, is a multisports club based in Zürich, Switzerland. The oldest and best known department of the club is its football team. With 27 titles, Grasshopper holds t ...

Personal life

Haas once worked as a model for

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Career statistics

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Honours

Grasshoppers * Swiss Championship (4): 1994–95, 1995–96, 1997–98, 2000–01 FC Basel *

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: 2003

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