Yannick Cotter

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Yannick Cotter
Personal information
Full name Yannick Cotter
Date of birth (2002-01-03) 3 January 2002 (age 20)
Place of birth Sion, Switzerland
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Left winger
Club information
Current team
 Juventus U23
Youth career
Sion
2020– Juventus
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019 Sion U21 7 (1)
2019–2020 Sion 2 (0)
2020– Juventus 0 (0)
2020 → Sion (loan) 0 (0)
National team
2016–2017 Switzerland U-15 7 (5)
2017–2018 Switzerland U-16 8 (1)
2018–2019 Switzerland U-17 10 (1)
2019 Switzerland U-19 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:51, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Yannick Cotter (born 3 January 2002) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Italian club Juventus.

Club career[]

Sion[]

Cotter is a product of FC Sion. In the 2018-19 season, Cotter scored 11 goals in 26 for the U18's. Already at the age of 17, Cotter was playing with the U-21 team of FC Sion in the Swiss Promotion League. In the beginning of December 2019, 17-year old Cotter began training with the first team of Sion.[2]

He made his official and professional debut on 8 December 2019 against FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.[3] Cotter started on the bench, but replaced Seydou Doumbia in the 59th minute. He also came on from the bench in the following league game against Neuchâtel Xamax.

Juventus[]

In the beginning of January 2020, Cotter was officially sold to Italian giants Juventus.[4] Cotter reportedly signed a deal until June 2024 and was sold for a fee around 4,9 million euros. However, he would remain at FC Sion on loan for the rest of the season.[5] But due to the suspension of all football in Switzerland during the COVID-19 pandemic, he made no official appearances for the club during the loan spell.

Returning to Juventus in July 2020, Cotter was registered for the clubs U-19 team for the 2020-21 season. He played 171 minutes, spread over 12 league games, and scored two goals. During a training session in June 2021, Cotter suffered a anterior cruciate ligament injury, which would keep him out for about eight months.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ Yannick Cotter at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ Yannick Cotter convoqué pour la première fois avec la première équipe, fcsion.ch, 7 December 2019
  3. ^ BASEL VS. SION 4 - 0, soccerway.com, 8 December 2019
  4. ^ Yannick Cotter è un giocatore della Juventus, twitter.com, 10 January 2020
  5. ^ Yannick Cotter offiziell zu Juventus, fcsion.ch
  6. ^ LE CONDIZIONI DI YANNICK COTTER, juventus.com, 15 June 2021

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