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Jeff Saibene

Jeff Saibene

Luxembourgish football player (born 1968)

Jeff Saibene (born 13 September 1968) is a Luxembourgish former professional footballer and manager who most recently managed Swiss Challenge League club Neuchâtel Xamax.

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Personal life

Saibene is a citizen of both Luxembourg and Switzerland and married with a Swiss wife. He is a fan of Hamburger SV.[1]

Club career

He played most of his club football abroad, predominantly in Switzerland, but also in Belgium for Standard Liège. He began and ended his playing career in his native Luxembourg.

International career

As a defensive midfielder or defender, Saibene played for Luxembourg's national team 63 times between 1986 and 2001.[2] He played in 27 FIFA World Cup qualification matches.[3]

He played his final international game in October 2001, a World Cup qualification loss at Yugoslavia.

Coaching career

Saibene was the manager of FC Aarau, in Switzerland[4] and assistant to Allan Simonsen at the national team. He was formerly the assistant manager to Ryszard Komornicki at Aarau but was promoted in June 2009 when Komornicki left the club.[5] He then managed Luxembourg U-21.[6] He left his position in March 2011 to coach FC St. Gallen.

On 19 March 2017, he was appointed as the new head coach of Arminia Bielefeld.[7] He was sacked on 10 December 2018.[8]

He was appointed as the new head coach of FC Ingolstadt for the 2019–20 season.[9] He was sacked on 9 March 2020.[10]

On 2 October 2020, he was named head coach of 1. FC Kaiserslautern.[11] He was sacked on 30 January 2021.[12]

In June 2021, he was named new head coach of Racing FC Union Luxembourg.

On 29 August 2022, he returned to Switzerland to take over coaching duties of struggling Swiss Challenge League side Neuchâtel Xamax.[13] Sadly, he was unable to turn around Xamax's fortune, managing only three wins in 25 games he managed.[14] Following a 2–5 defeat to FC Aarau on 23 April 2023, he handed in his resignation.[15]

Managerial

As of 23 April 2023
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Honours

As player

Union Luxembourg

FC Aarau

As manager

St. Gallen

Racing Union

References

  1. [1]
    Fritzen, Marek (1 September 2017). "Er ist der Graf von Luxemburg". fupa.net (in German). FuPa GmbH. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  2. [2]
    Mamrud, Roberto (14 December 2007). "Luxembourg – Record International Players". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 29 April 2008. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
  3. [3]
    Record at FIFA Tournaments – FIFA
  4. [4]
    Profile Archived 16 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine – FC Aarau
  5. [5]
    Komornicki nicht mehr Trainer des FC Aarau
  6. [6]
    "Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football > Actualités". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  7. [7]
    "Luxemburger Saibene wird Bielefeld-Coach". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  8. [8]
    "Arminia stellt Saibene und Rump frei". arminia-bielefeld.de. 10 December 2018. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  9. [9]
    "Schlüsselrolle: Jeff Saibene wird neuer FCI-Coach". fcingolstadt.de (in German). 12 June 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  10. [10]
    "Ingolstadt entlässt Trainer Jeff Saibene". dfb.de (in German). 9 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  11. [11]
    "Saibene neuer Trainer bei Kaiserslautern". dfb.de. 2 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  12. [12]
    "Kaiserslautern trennt sich von Saibene". dfb.de. 30 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  13. [13]
    "Nach fünf Jahren kehrt Jeff Saibene in die Schweiz zurück". sfl.ch (in German). Swiss Football League. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  14. [14]
    "Neuchâtel Xamax FCS: Jeff Saibene ist zurückgetreten". sfl.ch (in German). Swiss Football League. 23 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  15. [15]
    "Les chemins de Jeff Saibene et Neuchâtel Xamax se séparent". xamax.ch (in French). Neuchâtel Xamax FCS. 23 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  16. [16]
    "Das Aarau-Wunder jährt sich zum 25. Mal". Blick. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
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