Philippe Koch (born 8 February 1991) is a Swiss

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defender who most recently played for Swiss club

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Club career

FC Zürich

He joined the first team of

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in 2008 after coming through the hugely successful FC Zurich academy, then his older brother

Raphael Koch Raphael Koch (born 20 January 1990) is a footballer from Switzerland who currently plays as a defender for FC Solothurn.UEFA Cup The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , , "little star", is a Typography, typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star (heraldry), heraldic star. Computer scientists and Mathematici ...

. He was captain of the team winning the 2013–14 Swiss Cup and won the Cup again in 2015–16.

Honours

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(1): 2008–09 *

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(2): 2013–14, 2015–16

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1991 births Living people Men's association football fullbacks Swiss men's footballers Swiss expatriate men's footballers Swiss Super League players Serie B players FC Zürich players Novara FC players FC St. Gallen players Switzerland men's under-21 international footballers Switzerland men's youth international footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Italy 21st-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-footy-defender-stub