Christian Schwegler (born 6 June 1984) is a former

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from

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who played as defender.

Career

Christian joined Red Bull Salzburg during the summer of 2009 from

Young Boys Bern Berner Sport Club Young Boys (YB by short abbreviation, ) is a Swiss professional sports club based in Bern, Switzerland. Its first team has won 17 Swiss league championships and eight Swiss Cups. YB is one of the most successful Swiss football ...

for a fee of €0.6m. During the Red Bulls' 6–1 win over

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on 27 March 2010, Schwegler scored his first goal since joining the club. In the 2017-18 season, Schwegler returned to

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. At the beginning of 2020, he became captain for FC Luzern. His contract was extended by one year until the end of June 2021.

Playing style

Schwegler is known for his long

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Personal life

He is the brother of

Pirmin Schwegler Pirmin Schwegler (born 9 March 1987) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Schwegler began his career with FC Luzern. In summer 2005, he joined Young Boys. After just one year with Young Boys he signed with Bayer L ...

Honors

FC Red Bull Salzburg

* Austrian Champion (5):

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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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(4):

FC Luzern

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(1):

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

References

External links

Red Bull Salzburg profile

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