Pascal Zuberbühler

Early career

Born in Frauenfeld, Thurgau, Zuberbühler played his youth football with local amateur club Frauenfeld and advanced to their first team, who at that time played in the 1st League, the third tier of Swiss football. During the winter break of the 1991–92 Nationalliga A season he transferred to and signed his first professional contract with Grasshoppers. He played his league debut for his new club on 8 April 1992 in the away game against Lausanne-Sport. The game ended in a 1–1 draw. Zuberbühler played with GC for seven and a half years. During this time, he made 187 league appearances for Grasshoppers, winning the Nationalliga A three times (1994–95, 1995–96, 1997–98) and the Swiss Cup once (1993–94).

Basel

Zuberbühler joined Basel 's first team for their 1999–2000 season under new head-coach Christian Gross. The two clubs made a goalkeeper swap with Stefan Huber. After playing in one test match and one UI Cup game, Zuberbühler played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game on 7 July 1999, as Basel drew 1–1 with Lugano. In the 50th minute, Zuberbühler was substituted out of the game with a head wound. The following season, after just three league matches, Basel accepted an enquiry from Bayer Leverkusen. Zuberbühler was loaned out to them under head-coach Christoph Daum for the season. Zuberbühler played 13 league games and five Champions League games for them. But, after a few months, he was replaced between the posts by Adam…

Zuberbühler was capped 51 times by Switzerland and was a member of their squads for the Euro 2004, 2006 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2008, all under the management of Kobi Kuhn. At the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Switzerland topped a group ahead of France, South Korea, and Togo, then lost in the last 16 on penalties against Ukraine; he saved the Ukrainians' first penalty from Andriy Shevchenko. This Swiss team are the only team in the history of the World Cup not to concede a goal. On 15 June 2008, he played his last game with the Swiss national team, during the 2–0 victory over Portugal in Euro 2008, held in his home country.

Zuberbühler had a short stint as the Philippines national football team goalkeeping coach, reuniting with Fulham teammate Neil Etheridge, prior to the first round first leg 2014 World Cup qualifier against Sri Lanka in June 2011. From July 2011 to April 2012, he was the goalkeeping coach of Young Boys. He returned to the Philippines for a second spell in November 2012, ahead of the 2012 AFF Suzuki Cup, and again in 2015. In between, from 2013 to 2015, he was the goalkeeper coach of Servette FC. In June 2015, Zuberbühler joined Derby County as a goalkeeping coach. He left in March 2017 when new manager Gary Rowett placed Kevin Poole in his position. In November that year, he was hired as a goalkeeping specialist for FIFA.