Johnny Leoni
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Johnny Leoni | |
| birthday | June 30, 1984 | |
| place of birth | Sion , Switzerland | |
| Size | 189 cm | |
| position | goal | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1992-2003 | FC Sion | 30 (0) |
| 2003-2012 | FC Zurich | 220 (0) |
| 2012-2013 | Omonia Nicosia | 3 (0) |
| 2013 | → Neftçi Baku (loan) | 0 (0) |
| 2013-2014 | Marítimo Funchal | 5 (0) |
| 2014-2015 | FC Le Mont-sur-Lausanne | 12 (0) |
| 2016-2017 | AC Nagano Parceiro | 15 (0) |
| 2017-2018 | Tochigi SC | 50 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2011 | Switzerland | 1 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of April 2, 2019 |
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Johnny Leoni (born June 30, 1984 in Sion ) is a Swiss football player. He plays the position of goalkeeper .
Career
Johnny Leoni moved from FC Sion to FC Zurich during the summer break in 2003 . As number two behind Davide Taini , who was signed a year earlier , he was unable to directly demonstrate his strengths on the pitch. However, he let his talent and potential flash again and again in various short assignments. When Leoni was number 1 in the goal of the city club in autumn 2005, replacing Davide Taini, he was able to prove his class.
He grew to become a permanent fixture in the FC Zurich team and secured many important points for the FCZ. The highlight of his career was when he saved three penalties against FC Aarau in the quarter-finals of the Swisscom Cup 2005/06 . The low point of his career are the five goals he conceded in what his then coach Bernard Challandes called the “game of life” in the Champions League match against Real Madrid in late summer 2009.
The intended move abroad came about late. In the summer of 2012 Leoni, who had not been happy with FC Zurich for a long time, signed a contract with the Cypriot first division club Omonia Nicosia , which ran until 2014 ; in February 2013 the Swiss goalkeeper was loaned to Azerbaijan to Neftçi Baku , where he played no role. Since Omonia Nicosia got into financial difficulties and wages were no longer guaranteed, Leoni moved to Marítimo Funchal in the top Portuguese league in the summer of 2013 .
Thanks to his performance at FCZ, Leoni was also an issue for the Swiss national team . At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , he was a third goalkeeper in the squad . On August 10, 2011, he made his debut in the Swiss national team when the goalkeeper came on for Diego Benaglio in the game against Liechtenstein .
After working for Marítimo Funchal in Portugal for a year in 2013, he moved back to Switzerland in August 2014 for FC Le Mont-sur-Lausanne in the Challenge League .
In 2016 Leoni signed with the Japanese J3 League Team AC Nagano Parceiro . In 2017 he moved to Tochigi SC within the J3 League and was promoted to the J2 League .
successes
- Finalist U-17 Swiss Cup (2000)
- Cup winner with FC Zurich ( 2005 )
- Swiss champions with FC Zurich ( 2006 , 2007 and 2009 )
Web links
- Statistics FC Zurich
- Johnny Leoni in the database of weltfussball.de
- http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/sport/fussball/leoni-wie-benaglio-1.18133578
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zurich's master goalie Johnny Leoni switches to Le Mont aargauerzeitung.ch August 15, 2014
- ↑ Johnny Leoni - total performance data . ( transfermarkt.de [accessed on March 15, 2018]).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Leoni, Johnny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss football goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sion |