Andreas Niederer (born 22 August 1967) was a

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who played in the 1990s as

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Club career

Niederer joined

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's first team from local amateur club FC Allschwil. He signed in as reserve goalkeeper during their 1994–95 season under head-coach

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because first choice keeper

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was injured. After playing in one test game Niederer played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 13 May 1995 as Basel won 1–0 against Lausanne-Sport. He kept a clean sheet not only in this game, but also in his next match one week later. In his half year with the club Niederer played a total of 5 games for Basel. Four of these games were in the Nationalliga A and the other was the friendly game against

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