Massimo Ceccaroni

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Massimo Ceccaroni (born August 15, 1968 in Basel ) is a former Swiss professional football player ; he played from 1987 to 2002 and thus his entire professional career at FC Basel . Today he works in the youth department of FC Basel and has also been a member of the board of directors there since 2017.

Ceccaroni, whose parents come from Italy, grew up on Helvetiaplatz in the Iselin district. In 1977 he began playing football with the juniors of FC Basel and went through all junior departments until he was accepted into the first team in 1987. His greatest successes were his promotion to the National League A with FC Basel (1994) and the club's first championship title in 22 years (2002).

Although limited in football, Ceccaroni is a cult figure in his hometown of Basel. On the one hand because he stayed with his home club for 25 years and always showed full commitment in the games, on the other hand because Ceccaroni never scored a goal in the top division during his entire professional career; even then, when he missed a penalty in a championship game against Grasshoppers Zurich in 2000 and put the following margin on the crossbar instead of into an empty goal.

After FC Basel had not renewed his contract in 2002, he played briefly at the amateur club SC Dornach until he switched to BSC Old Boys Basel as a player-coach. Ceccaroni has been the technical director of the youth department at FC Basel since summer 2012. His brother Stefano Ceccaroni is also a former professional footballer and current football coach.

Ceccaroni is co-owner of ABT Bodenbeläge AG and worked there for ten years.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FC Basel 1893: STADIUM TOUR WITH MASSIMO CECCARONI - May 29, 2013
  2. ↑ FC Wangen bei Olten: Wangen-Dornach match report May 1, 2004 ( Memento from December 24, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ SC Dornach: Minutes of the 85th General Assembly of SC Dornach - page 2 ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Information from the youth section of FC Basel 1893 ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Ceccaroni, Massimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss soccer player and soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland