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Massimo Colomba

Massimo Colomba

Swiss footballer (born 1977)

Massimo Colomba (born 24 August 1977) is a Swiss footballer who played as goalkeeper. He is currently the goalkeeper coach of both FC Sion.

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Career

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, behind first choice keeper Franco Costanzo, on a three-year contract.[2] Colomba joined Basel's first team for their 2008–09 season under head coach Christian Gross. After four appearances in test games, Colomba played his domestic league debut for the team in the away game in the Letzigrund on 16 August as Basel were defeated 1–3 by his former club Grasshopper Club.[3] As Costanzo suffered an injury in October, Colomba replaced him successfully for four months.

Basel joined the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League in the second qualifying round. Basel advanced to the group stage, in which despite winning three of the six games the ended in third position and were eliminated. They finished four points behind group winners Roma and one behind Fulham, against whom they lost 3–2 in the last game of the stage. Colomba played the full 90 minutes.[4] At the end of the 2009–10 season he won the Double with his club. They won the League Championship title with 3 points advantage over second placed Young Boys. Colomba had 16 league appearances.[5] The team won the Swiss Cup, winning the final 6–0 against Lausanne-Sport. Colomba played all the cup games except the final.[6]

During the off-season before the 2010–11 season, Yann Sommer returned from his loan period with Grasshopper Club and it had been announced in advance that he would replace Constanzo at the end of the season. Colomba slipped down the hierarchy and became third choice keeper. Colomba won his second Swiss Championship at the end of the 2010–11 season, topping the table just one point clear of rivals Zürich.[7]

At the end of the 2011–12 season Colomba won his second Double with the club. They won the League Championship title with 20 points advantage.[8] The team won the Swiss Cup, winning the final 4–3 in a penalty shootout against Luzern. Colomba had played in three of the cup games[9]

On 17 May 2012 it was announced on the FCB homepage that Colomba was to retire from active football, but would continue his career with the club as goalie trainer.[10] During his active career with the club, Colomba played a total of 57 games for Basel. 19 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, seven in the Swiss Cup, three in the UEFA Europa League and 28 were friendly games.[11]

On 4 February 2015 Basel announced that Massimo Colomba had extended his contract with them.[12] On 1 July 2015, he also became the goalkeeper coach of the Swish U20 national team, a side job which fulfilled until 31 December 2017.[13] On 10 June 2022 Basel announced that their new trainer staff had been assigned and that Colomba was leaving the club after 13 very successful years with the club.[14]

On 7 September 2022 FC Sion announced that Colomba had joined them as new goalkeeper coach.[15]

Titles and honours

Basel

References

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    "Watch Video (FC Aarau - FC St. Gallen (Auf-/Abstiegsrunde 2002/2003))". youtube. 2003. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
  2. [2]
    Colomba Joins FC Basel Archived 22 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (16 August 2009). "Grasshopper Club - FC Basel 3:1 (1:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
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    Homewood, Brian (16 December 2009). "Zamora one-two knocks Basel out". uefa.com. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
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    Stokkermans, Karel (2012). "Switzerland 2009/10" (in French). Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
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    Swiss Football Verband (SFV) (9 May 2010). "FC Basel - FC Lausanne-Sport 6:0 (2:0)". Swiss Football Verband (SFV) internet. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
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    Zea, Anthony (2012). "Switzerland 2010/2011". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
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    Stokkermans, Karel (2017). "Switzerland 2011/12" (in French). Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
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    Swiss Football Verband (SFV) (16 May 2012). "FC Basel - FC Luzern 4:2 n.P. (1:1, 1:1, 0:0)". Swiss Football Verband (SFV) internet. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  10. [10]
    FC Basel 1893 (2012). "Massimo Colomba neuer Torhütertrainer – Germano Vailati kommt aus St. Gallen" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. [11]
    Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (2012). "Massimo Colomba - FCB statistic". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  12. [12]
    FC Basel 1893 (4 February 2015). "Massimo Colomba verlängert Vertrag bis 2017" [Massimo Colomba extends contract until 2017] (in German). FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 16 November 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. [13]
    COLOMBA WIRD GOALIE-TRAINER DER SCHWEIZER U-20‚ fcb.ch, 15 May 2017
  14. [14]
    FC Basel 1893 (10 June 2022). "Der neuer FCB Trainerstaff ist komplette" [The new FCB coaching staff is complete] (in German). FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 16 November 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. [15]
    FC Sion (7 September 2022). "Massimo Colomba nouvel entraîneur des gardiens" [Massimo Colomba new goalkeeping coach] (in French). Site officiel du FC Sion. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
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