Alex Brunner

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Alex Brunner
Personal information
Full name	Alex Brunner
Date of birth	December 8, 1973 (1973-12-08) (age 34)
Place of birth	Trieste, Italy
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Sorrento
Youth clubs
1990-1991	Triestina
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991-1993 1993-1994 1994-1996 1996-1999 1999-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005 2005-2007 2007- Sub-total:	Triestina Formia (loan) Foggia Bologna Como Ternana Salernitana → Cagliari (loan) Lucchese Sorrento Serie A Serie B	005 (0) 024 (0) 039 (0) 006 (0) 125 (0) 037 (0) 011 (0) 001 (0) 064 (0) 019 (0) 030 (0) 122 (0)[1]
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 December 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Alex Brunner (born 8 December 1973 in Trieste) is an Italian footballer. He plays for Sorrento of Serie C1.

Contents 1 Football career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Como 1.3 Late career 2 References

[edit] Football career

[edit] Early career

Brunner started his career at hometown club Triestina. After the club relegated to Serie C1 in summer 1991, Brunner gained his place in first team, made 5 appearances in two Serie C1 seasons. In summer 1993, he was loaned to Formia of Serie C2, where he firstly became a regular. After Triestina forced to restart at Serie D due to financial reason, Brunner joined U.S. Foggia of Serie A. In the first season he just made 2 appearances, as second goalkeeper behind Francesco Mancini, but after the club relegation, he became regular again.

In summer 1996, Brunner joined newly promoted Serie A team Bologna. He spent 3 seasons at the Emilia-Romagna club, and made 6 appearances in Serie A, as second goalkeeper behind Francesco Antonioli.

[edit] Como

He transferred to Como in summer 1999, where he spent 4 seasons. In the first season Como just finished 10th in Serie C1, but in the second and third seasons, he helped the team to reach Serie B and then Serie A. In that Serie A season, he compete with experienced Fabrizio Ferron, but still made 21 appearances.

[edit] Late career

After Como finished bottom at the table, Brunner transferred to Ternana of Serie B, replacing the left of Sergio Marcon and Gianmatteo Mareggini.

He then left for Salernitana, compete with former first choice Domenico Botticella. In January 2005, he left for Cagliari, replacing youth player Davide Capello as third choice behind Gennaro Iezzo and Fanis Katergiannakis.

In summer 2005, he joined Lucchese of Serie C1, where he played as first choice.

In summer 2007, he joined Sorrento of Serie C2.

[edit] References