Reto Baumgartner

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Reto Baumgartner (born 28 April 1967) is a retired Swiss professional footballer who played in the late 1980s and early 1990s as defender. Since FC Basel's AGM in 2008, Baumgartner is a member of the club board of directors and since 16 November 2020, he is president of the club. He is businessman and member of the Basel-Stadt trade association. Baumgartner played his youth football with Wettingen. He advanced to their first team for the first time during the 1984–85 Nationalliga A season, but usually played for their youth team. In 1987 he signed his first professional contract with the club and played solely for their first team. At the end of the 1986–87 season, Baumgartner and the team suffered relegation to the Nationalliga B. But he remained with the team and in the following season they achieved immediate promotion. Following his involvement in the Klötzli incident on 7 October 1989, Baumgartner was given a 10-month professional ban. His contract with Wettingen expired during this time and so he moved on. Baumgartner then found a helping hand from Basel and joined their first team for their 1990–91 season under head-coach Ernst August Künnecke.