- Massimo Colomba
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Massimo Colomba Personal information Full name Massimo Colomba Date of birth 24 August 1977 Place of birth Switzerland Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Playing position Goalkeeper Club information Current club FC Basel Number 23 Youth career 1993–1995 Villars-sur-Glâne FC 1995–1996 FC Richemond Fribourg 1996–1997 FC Beauregard Fribourg Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1997–2002 Neuchatel Xamax 73 (0) 2002–2008 FC Aarau 130 (1) 2008–2009 Grasshopper 3 (0) 2009– FC Basel 17 (0) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 May 2011.
† Appearances (Goals).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 December 2010Massimo Colomba (born 24 August 1977) is a Swiss footballer who currently plays as goalkeeper for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.
As a child Colomba played in the youth teams of his local side FC Villars-sur-Glâne. In 1995 he moved to Fribourg and played one year for FC Richemond and one for FC Beauregard.
Colomba began his professional career with Neuchatel Xamax in 1997. He was their reserve goalkeeper for three years and first-choice keeper during the 2000–01 and 2001–02 seasons. At the beginning of the 2002-03 season he joined FC Aarau and was the club's first-choice goalkeeper. On 26 April 2003 he scored his first and only goal for Aarau in the match against FC St. Gallen.[1] He played in Aarau until the 2007/08 season. Because he was usurped by Ivan Benito he left the club at the end of the season and joined Grasshoppers Zürich as understudy to Eldin Jakupović.
On 16 June 2009, he joined FC Basel as reserve goalkeeper on a three-year contract.[2] He made his debut for Basel in the 3–1 away defeat against his former club Grasshoppers on 16 August 2009.[3]
Titels and Honours
Basel
- Swiss Super League: 2010, 2011
- Swiss Cup: 2010
- Uhrencup Winner: 2011
References
- ^ "Watch Video (FC Aarau - FC St. Gallen (Auf-/Abstiegsrunde 2002/2003))". youtube. 2003. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp-w4i5AUFA. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
- ^ Colomba Joins FC Basel
- ^ Grasshopper 3, Basel 1
External links
- Profile at FC Basel (German)
- Profile at Swiss Football League Website (German)
- Soccerway profile
FC Basel – current squad 1 Sommer · 3 Park · 5 Ajeti · 6 Dragović · 7 Schürpf · 8 Huggel · 9 Streller · 10 Yapi · 11 Chipperfield · 13 A. Frei · 14 Stocker · 15 Voser · 16 T. Xhaka · 17 Shaqiri · 18 Herzog · 19 Abraham · 20 F. Frei · 21 Kusunga · 23 Colomba · 24 Cabral · 26 Buess · 27 Steinhöfer · 28 Andrist · 29 Kováč · 30 Tembo · 31 Zoua · 33 Wieser · 34 G. Xhaka · 35 Pak · Coach: Vogel
Categories:- 1977 births
- Swiss footballers
- Swiss people of Italian descent
- Living people
- Neuchâtel Xamax players
- FC Aarau players
- Grasshopper-Club Zürich players
- FC Basel players
- Swiss Super League players
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