Moritz Bauer is an Austrian footballer who plays as a right midfielder or a right back for Swiss club Servette.
17 Facts About Moritz Bauer
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Moritz Bauer spent five seasons at Letzigrund making over 100 appearances for Grasshoppers before joining Russian Premier League club Rubin Kazan June 2016.
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Moritz Bauer began playing football with the youth teams at SC Veltheim, Grasshopper Club Zurich and FC Winterthur.
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Moritz Bauer became a regular at Letzigrund, making 102 appearances in five years with the Swiss Super League side.
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In June 2016, Moritz Bauer signed for Russian Premier League club Rubin Kazan.
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Moritz Bauer became a popular player with the Rubin Kazan supporters who voted Bauer as their player-of the year for 2017.
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On 9 January 2018, Moritz Bauer signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with Premier League club Stoke City.
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Moritz Bauer signed a new five-year contract with the Potters in July 2018.
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Moritz Bauer failed to retain his place in the side under Jones for the remainder of the campaign and speaking in March 2019 Bauer admitted that he was looking for a new challenge.
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Moritz Bauer played 13 matches for Celtic as they won a ninth consecutive Scottish Premiership title as the season was ended early in May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On his return to Stoke, Moritz Bauer was left out of the first team by Michael O'Neill and was loaned to Russian side FC Ufa in February 2021.
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Moritz Bauer moved to Ufa on a permanent basis on 1 July 2021.
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Moritz Bauer was born in Switzerland, and has Austrian citizenship through his Austrian father.
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Moritz Bauer was eligible for the Swiss and Austrian national teams and represented Switzerland at junior international levels.
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Moritz Bauer got his first call up to the senior Austria team for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Wales and Georgia in September 2017.
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Moritz Bauer is a qualified pilot and regularly flies propeller aeroplanes during his breaks from football.
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Moritz Bauer can play the piano and is a polyglot, speaking five languages: French, German, English, Spanish and a basic level of Russian, which he picked up quickly by living with a Russian family and made him a big favourite among Rubin fans.