About Valentin Stocker
Valentin Stocker is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a left midfielder, and as an attacking midfielder. He also played for the Switzerland national team. During Basel's 2007–08 season, head coach Christian Gross called Stocker into the first team. Stocker signed his first professional contract on his 18th birthday and just a few months later received an extension. He played in their U-18 team for the second half of the 2005–06 season, under coach Patrick Rahmen and his assistant Marco Walker and with them won both the Swiss U-18 championship and the U-19/18 national cup that season. A year later, in the 2006–07 season they won their division and the team became Swiss champions at U-21 level.
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