Frank Günther Feltscher Martínez (born 17 May 1988) is a former professional

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who played as an

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. Born in Switzerland, he made 15 appearances for the Venezuela national team scoring twice.

Club career

Feltscher was born in

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, Switzerland. After emerging through the youth ranks at

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, he joined

US Lecce Unione Sportiva Lecce () is a professional Italian football club based in Lecce, Apulia. The club play in Serie A in the 2023–24 season, the top level of the Italian football pyramid. Lecce plays its home games at Stadio Via del Mare, wh ...

in the summer of 2008. He was loaned out to

AC Bellinzona AC Bellinzona is a Swiss football club based in Bellinzona. It was founded in 1904, and won the Swiss Super League in 1948. After being folded in 2013 declaring bankruptcy, the team played the Ticino Group of 2.Liga, the sixth tier of the Sw ...

until the end of the 2008–09.

International career

Feltscher played for the Switzerland national under-21 team from 2007. On 2 September 2011, he made the starting line-up for Venezuela national team in a friendly match against

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in India.

Personal life

His brother, Rolf Feltscher, plays for

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as a defender and step-brother Mattia Desole, plays for FC Freienbach. Lived in Venezuela for several years as a kid playing football at Colegio Humboldt where he also studied with his brother. Frank holds Venezuelan, Swiss

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Venezuela's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Feltscher goal''.

Honours

Grasshoppers *

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* * * 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Bülach Swiss people of Venezuelan descent Sportspeople of Venezuelan descent Naturalized citizens of Venezuela Swiss emigrants to Venezuela Venezuelan people of Swiss descent Venezuelan men's footballers Footballers from the canton of Zürich Men's association football midfielders Venezuela men's international footballers Switzerland men's under-21 international footballers Swiss Super League players Swiss 1. Liga (football) players Serie A players Cypriot First Division players Venezuelan Primera División players Categoría Primera A players FC Winterthur players Grasshopper Club Zurich players US Lecce players AC Bellinzona players FC Aarau players AEL Limassol players Debreceni VSC players Zulia F.C. players Águilas Doradas players FC Tuggen players Venezuelan expatriate men's footballers Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Italy Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Colombia Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia 21st-century Swiss sportsmen {{Venezuela-footy-midfielder-stub