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Alexander Frei

Swiss footballer

Person · Open Library

Born: 1979-07-15
Works: 1

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Societas leonina

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Type: Group

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5 total works indexed

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,394x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,072x
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 23,988x
QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,457x

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Key facts

2018: Basel (interim)
Full name: Alexander Frei
Date of birth: ( 1979-07-15 ) 15 July 1979 (age 46)
Place of birth: Basel , Switzerland
Height: 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position: Striker
1987 1988: FC Begnins
1988 1995: FC Aesch
1995 1997: Basel
Years: Team
1997 1998: Basel
1998 1999: Thun
1999 2000: FC Luzern
2001 2003

Key dates

Born: 15 July 1979

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Alexander
Family name: Frei
Gender: male
Citizenship: Switzerland
Place of birth: Basel
Occupation: association football coach
Participant in: UEFA Euro 2008
Sport: association football
Member of team: Borussia Dortmund II

Article

Alexander Frei or Alex Frei (born 15 July 1979) is a Swiss professional football coach and a former player who played as a striker. He was most recently head coach of FC Aarau in the Swiss Challenge League, the second tier of Swiss football.

Frei began his career at Basel, going on to various other clubs in Switzerland, France and Germany before returning to his home club, where he won the Swiss Super League title in all four of his seasons, including doubles with the Swiss Cup in 2010 and 2012.