Pierre-André Schürmann (born 5 July 1960) is a Swiss

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and former player. During his playing career, He played for

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and

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Playing career

Schürmann was born in Port-Valais, Switzerland. Schürmann advanced to

's first team during the

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season, but he made only two appearances in that season, so he moved on to

in the second tier of Swiss football for the following two seasons. He then played one seasons for

and two for

before he moved on to

. He stayed with ''LS'' for six seasons. Schürmann joined FC Basel's first team for their 1992–93 season under head-coach

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. After playing in five test games Schürmann played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 18 July 1992 as Basel were defeated 1–0 by

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. He scored his first goal for his club one week later on 21 July in the home game in the

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. It was the first goal of the game as Basel won 2–0 against Etoile Carouge. During Basel's 1993–94 season, under head-coach

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, his teammates were the likes of Swiss international goalkeeper

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, defenders

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, the midfielders

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and the Swiss international strikers

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. Together they won the promotion/relegation group and became Nationalliga B champions and thus won promotion to the top flight of Swiss football. This after six seasons in the second tier. Schürmann stayed with the club for two seasons. During this time Schürmann played a total of 59 games for Basel scoring a total of eight goals. 34 of these games were in the Nationalliga B, six in the

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and 19 were friendly games. He scored six goals in the domestic league and the other two were scored in the cup. Following his time with Basel, Schürmann moved on to play for Wil.

Managerial career

Schürmann became player-manager of

in 1994. He played with them in that position for four seasons and then ended his playing career. He then went on to coach

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. He has been working in the SFV's youth set-up since 2000. He was part of the coaching staff behind Switzerlands victory in the 2002 UEFA European Under-17 Championship. He helped the Switzerland U19s reach the semi-finals in Switzerland in 2004. Schürmann was appointed as manager of the Switzerland national under-21 team on 18 July 2007. In June 2009, he joined

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and on 14 April 2010 after four consecutive league defeats, Neuchatel Xamax officials sacked and replaced him with the club's junior squad coach Jean-Michel Aeby. In April 2018 he was one of 77 applicants for the vacant Cameroon national team job.

References

Sources

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