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– He called himself the Swallow King, and now he’s breaking countless goal records
Stephan Andrist played with Salah and Shaqiri at FC Basel. Now he is completing a season for the ages in the province.
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Stephan Andrist has 37 goals after 24 games. He was never considered a goalscorer during his professional career.
Foto: Martin Meienberger (Freshfocus)
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During the winter break, Stephan Andrist wrote an email to the 1st league. He scored 23 goals in the preliminary round. He wanted to know where the record was.
Now, after 24 games, the FC Schötz striker has 37 goals. He has already scored four times three times, plus four hat tricks. Andrist is having a superlative season. To put things into perspective: the next best goalscorer in the first league has 20 goals. “He even scores more often than Harry Kane,” was the headline in the “Luzerner Zeitung” this fall. “It’s working,” says Andrist himself.
The Bern native is now 36 years old and ended his professional career in 2021 after 14 years. Andrist thinks his best time was at FC Basel, to which he moved from FC Thun in 2011. His competitors were Shaqiri, Salah and Stocker. “Those were different calibres,” he says. “I didn’t play often, but I learned a lot.”
One is now a star at Liverpool FC – the other goalgetter in Schötz: Mohamed Salah and Stephan Andrist in 2014 at the FC Basel training camp.
Photo: Andy Müller (Freshfocus)
Andrist played 150 games for Thun, Basel, Lucerne and Aarau in the Super League. He sometimes caused offense because he said what he thought. “I am a swallow king – and I stand by it” is one such quote from him that has stuck.
He looks back on his time in Germany with gratitude. In 2015 he moved from the Super League to Hansa Rostock in the 3rd league. When the request reached him, he first had to look on the map to see where the city was. It was an unusual step, but Hansa is not just any club. On average, over 10,000 fans came to the North Germans’ home games.
He also experienced difficult times. In 2019 he was without a club for six months. And his last professional position was spent at FC Chiasso in the Challenge League, a club that is pretty much the opposite of Hansa in terms of spectator interest. Does he have any regrets? “No,” Andrist answers, “I was able to turn my hobby into a career for fourteen years.”
He’s toying with 50 goals
He now works as a personal trainer for the company 360Football, which means he gives one-hour individual training sessions for ambitious talents for whom the practice sessions in the club are not enough. His specialty? Shot on goal, of course.
Andrist is what is known in football jargon as a penalty area striker. He only scored 2 of his 37 goals from outside the box. They were directly converted free kicks.
He was never considered a goal getter. He had only scored more than ten goals twice during his professional career, that was between 2016 and 2018 in the German 3rd division for Rostock and Wehen Wiesbaden. Andrist often played on the wing, especially when he was younger, and his speed was one of his trump cards. How does he explain his goal explosion? “I approach every opportunity as if it were my last.”
During the winter break he set himself the goal of scoring 30 goals as quickly as possible. When he achieved that, he set his sights on 40. Now that he could soon exceed the mark, he is toying with 50 goals.
Incidentally, he never received a reply to his email from the first league. But anyone who combs through the archives of the relevant websites can only come to one conclusion: Andrist is currently breaking all scoring records.
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