Marco Streller
Personal information
Full name	Marco Streller
Date of birth	June 18, 1981 (1981-06-18) (age 26)
Place of birth	Basel, Switzerland
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	FC Basel
Number	10
Youth clubs
1988–1997 1997–2000	FC Aesch FC Arlesheim
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000–2001 2001–2002 2002 2002–2003 2003–2004 2004–2006 2006 2006–2007 2007–	FC Basel Concordia Basel FC Basel FC Thun FC Basel VfB Stuttgart → FC Köln (loan) VfB Stuttgart FC Basel	01 0(0) 30 (16) 03 0(0) 16 0(8) 16 (13) 28 0(4) 14 0(3) 27 0(5) 23 (12)
National team2
2003–2008	Switzerland	26 (11)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 May 2008. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 20 May 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Marco Streller (born 18 June 1981 in Basel) is a Swiss football striker, currently with Swiss Super League's FC Basel, and also a Swiss international.

Club career

Streller started his career with local club FC Basel in 2000 where he played one game in his debut season. He left Basel the next season to join feeder club FC Concordia Basel. He scored 16 goals in 30 starts in the Challenge League with Concordia which made Basel sit up and take notice. They bought him back in 2002 but he left in January of the next year to join FC Thun after playing just three games. He scored a decent amount of goals at Thun and was signed again by Basel but this time he was promised first team football.

During the 2003–04 season, he scored 13 goals in 16 games, gathering the interest of a handful of Bundesliga clubs including VfB Stuttgart, who eventually signed him ahead of the 2004–05 season. He scored just four goals in 28 matches in his first half-season in Stuttgart, and was loaned out to FC Köln for the remainder of the 2006 season. After returning from Köln, where he made 14 starts, he still failed to impress at Stuttgart and was allowed to rejoin his boyhood heroes FC Basel on a free transfer in June 2007, for his fourth spell at the club.

International career

A full international since 2003, Streller played at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He was previously in the squad for the 2004 European Football Championship, but pulled out due to injury. During a 2006 WC qualifier against Turkey, he was lashed at and kicked by Turkey player Alpay Özalan. At the tournament's final stage he missed a spot-kick during his side's penalty shootout against Ukraine, who emerged victorious.

Although he was included in the squad of 23 to play at Euro 2008, Streller announced his international retirement after the competition despite being only 26, citing unrest at his treatment on the pitch from Swiss fans.

Honours

Basel

• Swiss Cup: 2008
• Swiss Cup: 2004, 2008

Stuttgart

• German Cup Runner Up: 2007
• German League: 2007