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Lichtsteiner, who made 108 appearances for the Swiss national
side, has started an internship lasting up to six months at
Zurich firm Maurice de Mauriac.
"I want to do something productive," the 37-year-old former
Juventus, Lazio and Arsenal defender told Reuters on Friday.
"If you are a banker ... you can do that for all your life, but
if you are a footballer once you hit your mid 30s, you have to
find something else to do."
He said he would make a watch during his internship that would
be sold off for charity. After that, he was open to the idea of
becoming a full-time watchmaker but hadn't decided for sure and
might still go back to sport.
"I see some similarities to football," he told Reuters.
"In football if not all the team is perfect you will not win.
It's the same with a watch, if everything is not perfectly in
place the watch is not going to work."
The company's owners, Leonard and Massimo Dreifuss, said they
were delighted to have Lichtsteiner onboard as their first
trainee.
"We had lots of applications but Stephan was the most
enthusiastic," said art director Leonard Dreifuss.
"We are aiming for a long-term partnership and will move step by
step," said CEO Massimo Dreifuss, when asked if Lichtsteiner
would invest in the company.
The brothers said they first met Lichtsteiner at a business talk
near Zurich in October.
(Reporting by John Revill; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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