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Stephan Lichtsteiner is a Swiss association football player and coach. Born in Adligenswil on 16 January 1984, he plays as a full-back. His professional career began in 2001. He has been a member of several sports teams, including Grasshopper Club Zürich, SS Lazio, Lille OSC, and Juventus FC.
Lichtsteiner represented Switzerland in international competition. He participated in UEFA Euro 2008, the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and UEFA Euro 2016. He stands 181 centimeters tall and weighs 75 kilograms.
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- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
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- A consistent and accurate<i>ab initio</i>parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu
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- Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory
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- Array programming with NumPy
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- Welcome to the Tidyverse
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Encyclopedic overview
Stephan Lichtsteiner ( Swiss Standard German: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈlɪçtˌʃtaɪnər]; born 16 January 1984) is a Swiss football manager and former professional footballer. He is currently the head coach of Swiss Super League club FC Basel. An attacking right-back or wing-back during his playing career, he was known for his energetic runs down the right wing, as well as his stamina and athleticism, which earned him the nicknames "Forrest Gump" and "The Swiss Express".
He began his professional career with Grasshopper, winning a league title in 2002–03, and moved to Lille in 2005, helping the French club to Champions League qualification in his first season with the team. In 2008, he joined Italian club Lazio, and won both the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana the following year. In 2011, he signed for Juventus for a fee of €10 million. He played 257 total games for the Turin side over seven years and won 14 trophies, including the Serie A title in each of his seasons with the team. In the summer of 2018, he was signed by Premier League side Arsenal, where he spent a season before moving to German club Augsburg the following summer. Lichtsteiner announced his retirement from football after one season at the club.
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