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2021 World Cup. | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Glenn David Hodel | ||
Date of birth | 22 November 1996 | ||
Place of birth | Lucerne, Switzerland [1] | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
International career‡ | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2013– | Switzerland | 150 | |
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 August 2022 |
Glenn Hodel (born 22 November 1996) is a Swiss beach soccer player who plays as a forward for the Switzerland national team.
He is the nephew of former Swiss association football international, Marc Hodel. [3]
Hodel is an Aargau native. [4] The similarity of his name to that of former England midfielder, Glenn Hoddle, is not a coincidence – his father, a fan of Tottenham Hotspur, gave his son the first name Glenn in honour of Hoddle. [5]
He originally pursued association football but switched to beach soccer aged 14. [4] [6] He debuted in the Swiss National League aged 15, [7] and subsequently made his debut for Switzerland in 2013 in a friendly versus Poland aged 16. [1] Aged just 18, he was top scorer of the 2015 Swiss League season. [7] That year, he represented the Swiss national team at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup for the first time, and has since appeared at three more editions ( 2017, 2019, 2021). At the latter, he won the Golden Boot (top scorer award) with 12 goals, [6] [8] despite being suspended for one match. [9]
In 2022, he surpassed 150 caps for Switzerland, [3] [10] and his goal in the final versus Portugal helped Switzerland become Euro Beach Soccer League champions. [4] [11] He was then European club champion with Israeli side Kfar Qassem at the 2023 Euro Winners Cup [12] and won the gold medal with Switzerland at the 2023 European Games [13] (albeit he did not feature in the gold medal match itself due to injury). [14]
Competition | Year | Apps | Goals | Ref. |
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FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup | ||||
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2 | 0 | [1] | |
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4 | 5 | [2] | |
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4 | 2 | [3] | |
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5 | 12 | [4] Archived 2024-02-27 at the Wayback Machine | |
Total | 15 | 19 | — |
As of 2023.
The following is a selection, not an exhaustive list, of the major international honours Hodel has achieved:
![]() Hodel at the
2021 World Cup. | |||
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Glenn David Hodel | ||
Date of birth | 22 November 1996 | ||
Place of birth | Lucerne, Switzerland [1] | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
International career‡ | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2013– | Switzerland | 150 | |
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 August 2022 |
Glenn Hodel (born 22 November 1996) is a Swiss beach soccer player who plays as a forward for the Switzerland national team.
He is the nephew of former Swiss association football international, Marc Hodel. [3]
Hodel is an Aargau native. [4] The similarity of his name to that of former England midfielder, Glenn Hoddle, is not a coincidence – his father, a fan of Tottenham Hotspur, gave his son the first name Glenn in honour of Hoddle. [5]
He originally pursued association football but switched to beach soccer aged 14. [4] [6] He debuted in the Swiss National League aged 15, [7] and subsequently made his debut for Switzerland in 2013 in a friendly versus Poland aged 16. [1] Aged just 18, he was top scorer of the 2015 Swiss League season. [7] That year, he represented the Swiss national team at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup for the first time, and has since appeared at three more editions ( 2017, 2019, 2021). At the latter, he won the Golden Boot (top scorer award) with 12 goals, [6] [8] despite being suspended for one match. [9]
In 2022, he surpassed 150 caps for Switzerland, [3] [10] and his goal in the final versus Portugal helped Switzerland become Euro Beach Soccer League champions. [4] [11] He was then European club champion with Israeli side Kfar Qassem at the 2023 Euro Winners Cup [12] and won the gold medal with Switzerland at the 2023 European Games [13] (albeit he did not feature in the gold medal match itself due to injury). [14]
Competition | Year | Apps | Goals | Ref. |
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FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup | ||||
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2 | 0 | [1] | |
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4 | 5 | [2] | |
![]() |
4 | 2 | [3] | |
![]() |
5 | 12 | [4] Archived 2024-02-27 at the Wayback Machine | |
Total | 15 | 19 | — |
As of 2023.
The following is a selection, not an exhaustive list, of the major international honours Hodel has achieved: