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|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1972-09-22)22 September 1972 (age 52) | ||
| Place of birth | Sion, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1994 | Sion | 65 | (23) |
| 1994–1996 | FC Basel | 61 | (15) |
| 1996–1997 | Sion | 5 | (0) |
| 1997–2001 | Servette | 132 | (54) |
| 2001–2002 | FC Luzern | 16 | (5) |
| 2002–2006 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 122 | (49) |
| Total | 401 | (146) | |
| International career | |||
| 1998–2005 | Switzerland | 18 | (5) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Alexandre Rey (born 22 September 1972) is a Swiss former professionalfootballer who played as astriker during the 1990s and 2000s. He is best known for his spells atServette FC andNeuchâtel Xamax.
Born inSion, Rey played his youth football and began playing football professionally in 1991 with local clubFC Sion, helping the club win theSwiss Cup in 1991 and the Swiss championship in the1991–92 Nationalliga A season.[1]
Rey joinedFC Basel's first team for their1994–95 season under head coachClaude Andrey. After playing in seven test games, Rey played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game in theSt. Jakob Stadium on 27 July 1994 as Basel were defeated 1–0 byLugano.[2] He scored his first goal for the club on 21 September in the home game against his former clubSion, but this did not help the team, as Basel lost the game 2–1.[3] In the Swiss Cup round 3 match on 23 September 1995, Rey scored a hattrick within 40 minutes of the match against FC Subingen. In fact, he scored four goals as Basel won 6–1 to continue to the next round.[4]
He stayed with the club for two seasons and during this time Rey played a total of 89 games for Basel scoring a total of 32 goals. Sixty-one of these games were in theNationalliga A, 6 in the Swiss Cup, 4 in the1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup and 18 were friendly games. He scored 16 goals in the domestic league, 6 in the Cup, 2 in theUIC and the other 9 were scored during the test games.[5]
He returned to Sion ahead of the 1996–97 season. Although he was a success during his first spell at the club, Rey struggled to win a place in the starting eleven, playing just five games in six months, and left forServette FC in January 1997. He was a major hit at Servette, playing the best football of his career and earning a call-up to theSwitzerland squad. After making 132 appearances and scoring 54 goals for the club, Rey left to joinFC Luzern in January 2001. He signed forNeuchâtel Xamax the following January and proved to be a good signing as he went on to score almost fifty goals for the club before his retirement in 2006.
Rey wascapped 18 times for theSwitzerland national team, scoring five goals. He made his international debut as a substitute againstHungary at theFerenc Puskás Stadium inBudapest on 18 November 1998. He went on to make another fourteen appearances for Switzerland between then and 2001 when he was no longer included in the squad. He made a comeback to the national team when he replaced the suspendedAlexander Frei and scored a hat-trick in the match against theFaroe Islands on 4 September 2004.
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