Alain Sutter was one of the most successful Swiss

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 football

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 players during the 1990s.

Sutter began his career in 1985 with Grasshoppers Zurich, one of Switzerland's most storied clubs. After spending the 1987–88 season on loan to Young Boys Bern

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, he was ready to take his place in the Grasshoppers first team, where he remained until the 1993–1994 season, when he decided to move to Germany

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 to play with Nuremberg.

After Sutter's impressive performances during the 1994 FIFA World Cup

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, Germany's most successful club, Bayern Munich

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, quickly signed the midfielder where he played for one season, before moving again this time to Freiburg

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. In 1997 he transferred to Major League Soccer

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 in the United States, where he signed for the Dallas Burn (now FC Dallas

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). He played one season in Dallas but his tenure there was cut short when, during training in early 1998, he stepped awkwardly in a hole of the practice field (the Burn was using the facilities of a high school at that time) and the injury forced him to retire. He ended his career with 68 caps and five goals for the Swiss national team

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Currently he works as an expert commentary when Swiss TV shows important matches.

Scandals

Alain Sutter was the main force behind a scandal in 1995.
Before an important match for the Swiss team, he unfolded a banner to protest against France testing the atom bomb.

He is also known for spending much of his spare time protesting against continued logging in the amazon basin.