Stéphane Nater

{{Short description|Tunisian footballer (born 1984)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Stéphane Nater

| image = Houcine Nater (cropped).JPG

| caption = Stéphane Nater, 2014

| fullname = Stéphane Houcine Nater

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|1|20|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Troyes, France

| height = 1.86 m

| currentclub = Balzers

| clubnumber = 5

| position = Midfielder

| youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}

| youthclubs1 = Balzers

| youthyears2 = {{0|0000}}

| youthclubs2 = Schaan

| youthyears3 = {{0|0000}}–2002

| youthclubs3 = St. Gallen

| youthyears4 = 2002–2004

| youthclubs4 = Vaduz{{cite web|url=https://fcschaan.li/2012/03/26/1-mannschaft-bereit-fur-kampferische-ruckrunde/|title=1. Mannschaft: Bereit für kämpferische Rückrunde|trans-title=1st team: Ready for a fighting second half of the season|language=German|publisher=FC Schaan|date=26 March 2012}}

| years1 = 2002–2004

| clubs1 = Vaduz

| caps1 = 2

| goals1 = 0

| years2 = 2004–2008

| clubs2 = Chur 97

| caps2 = 0

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 2007–2008

| clubs3 = → Biaschesi (loan)

| caps3 = 26

| goals3 = 0

| years4 = 2008–2010

| clubs4 = Schaffhausen

| caps4 = 53

| goals4 = 2

| years5 = 2010–2012

| clubs5 = Servette

| caps5 = 31

| goals5 = 3

| years6 = 2012–2014

| clubs6 = St. Gallen

| caps6 = 63

| goals6 = 1

| years7 = 2014–2016

| clubs7 = Club Africain

| caps7 = 38

| goals7 = 1

| years8 = 2016–2017

| clubs8 = Étoile du Sahel

| caps8 = 9

| goals8 = 0

| years9 = 2017–2020

| clubs9 = Rapperswil-Jona

| caps9 = 43

| goals9 = 1

| years10 = 2020–2021

| clubs10 = Balzers

| caps10 = 11

| goals10 = 1

| years11 = 2021–2022

| clubs11 = YF Juventus

| caps11 = 18

| goals11 = 0

| years12 = 2022–

| clubs12 = Balzers

| caps12 = 55

| goals12 = 1

| nationalyears1 = 2014–2015

| nationalteam1 = Tunisia

| nationalcaps1 = 12

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| club-update = 27 April 2024

| nationalteam-update = 27 March 2015

}}

Stéphane Houcine Nater (born 20 January 1984) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Balzers. Born in France, he represented Tunisia at international level, and also holds Swiss citizenship having spent much of his upbringing there.

Club career

Nater was transferred to St. Gallen, where he was formed as a youth player, after two years at Servette FC, where he played one season in the Challenge League and one season in the top flight.{{cite news|title=Nater quitte Servette pour St-Gall|url=http://www.lematin.ch/sports/football/nater-quitte-servette-stgall/story/26505046|publisher=Le Matin|archive-date=2 June 2012|access-date=31 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602172522/http://www.lematin.ch/sports/football/nater-quitte-servette-stgall/story/26505046|url-status=dead}}

In the summer of 2014, he joined Club Africain for his first spell in the Tunisian league, signing a two-year deal.{{cite news|title=Football : Stéphane Houcine Nater signe au CA|url=http://www.clubafricain.com/articles.asp?artid=2007|publisher=clubafricain.com|language=fr|date=7 July 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714192118/http://www.clubafricain.com/articles.asp?artid=2007|archive-date=14 July 2014}}

International career

Nater has joined to the Tunisian national team in November 2013. He was an unused substitute in the final 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Cameroon.{{cite web |title=Cameroon 4:1 (2:0) Tunisia – Report|url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/africa/matches/round=258316/match=300259034/report.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131120105813/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/africa/matches/round=258316/match=300259034/report.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 20, 2013|publisher=FIFA}} His international debut was in a friendly match against Colombia on 5 March 2014.

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