Dominique Herr
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Dominique Herr is a Swiss
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 former football
Football (soccer)
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 defender
Defender (football)
Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....

 who played throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Career

Herr started his career at local club FC Basel
FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel is a Swiss football club based in Basel. They are one of the most successful clubs in Swiss football, having won the Swiss Super League 14 times, the third most for any Swiss club. They were most successful in the late 1960s and 1970s, winning the...

 in 1984 where he was a squad player and played mainly for the FC Basel Under-21's for the first couple of seasons. He broke into the first-team during the 1986/87 season
Swiss Super League 1986-87
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, playing 31 games over the course of the entire campaign. Basel failed to avoid relegation to the Nationalliga B in 1988
Swiss Super League 1987-88
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 and Herr left to join Lausanne Sports
Lausanne Sports
Lausanne-Sports is a Swiss sports club based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is most famous for its football department , but the club also had athletics, sport rowing, and rink hockey departments until they split in 2009 over a row about the construction of a new stadium that will be built by...

 who continued to play in the Nationalliga A
Swiss Super League
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. His first season at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
Stade Olympique de la Pontaise is a multi-purpose stadium in Lausanne, Switzerland. The stadium holds 15,850 people and was built in 1904.During the 1954 FIFA World Cup, the stadium hosted five games.It is used mostly for football matches...

 saw him achieve some excellent form and he was called up to the Swiss national team
Switzerland national football team
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. In Summer 1992, he signed for Swiss champions FC Sion
FC Sion
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 where he won the Swiss Cup
Schweizer Cup
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 twice, in 1995 and 1996. Injury forced him into retirement in 1996, aged just 30.

He was capped 52 times and scored 4 goals for the Swiss national team
Switzerland national football team
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 between 1989 and 1995, including four games at the 1994 FIFA World Cup
1994 FIFA World Cup
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