David Pallas
David Pallas (born 1 July 1980) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a right-back. He last played for VfL Bochum in Germany's Bundesliga.[1]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Pallas | ||
| Date of birth | 1 July 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Zürich, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Right-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–1997 | FC Zürich | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2004 | FC Zürich | 105 | (1) |
| 2004–2005 | → Thun (loan) | 10 | (1) |
| 2004–2005 | FC Zürich | 8 | (0) |
| 2005 | → Thun (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | VfL Bochum | 32 | (0) |
| 2007 | → VfL Bochum II | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 162 | (2) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Early life
Born in Zürich, Switzerland, Pallas began his youth career at FC Zürich, where he made the leap into the first team in 2001. During the winter break of the 2004–05 season, Pallas decided for a change to league rivals FC Thun 1898, with whom he still entirely surprising qualified in the same season for the Champions League. The only 1.69 meters wide rights defenders took the opportunity against well-known opponents such as the Thun group rivals Arsenal in the European "Champions League" play but not true and moved instead to VfL Bochum, where his time urgently a replacement for the injured right-back Søren Colding investigated and had just committed a compatriot Pallas' as a coach with Marcel Koller. As reasons for his move to VfL Bochum Pallas said that he sees the better perspective at Ruhr club and financial aspects would rather play a supporting role. After the Swiss first few games for VfL completed, subsequently, however, again had to settle for the bench, he succeeded at the end of the second half of the 2005/2006 season of jumping back into the starting eleven of VfL Bochum. For this he played 21 league games and was wearing the shirt number 36. Pallas possessed the Ruhr club into a contract until 2007 with a club side, one-year option, which was not perceived. After an unsuccessful search for a new professional club and training camps at FC Wil and the training camp of the German players union VDV in Duisburg David Pallas has resigned from professional football. From season 2014/15 Pallas plays at FC Ibach in the 2. Liga Inter.
References
- "Pallas, David" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 28 October 2012.