Marco Pascolo

Marco Pascolo

Marco Pascolo
Personal information
Date of birth	(1966-05-09) 9 May 1966 (age 58)
Place of birth	Sion, Switzerland
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1989	Sion	17	(1)
1989–1991	Neuchâtel Xamax	52	(0)
1991–1996	Servette	176	(0)
1996–1997	Cagliari	14	(0)
1997–1998	Nottingham Forest	5	(0)
1998–2002	Zürich	115	(0)
2002–2003	Servette	27	(0)
Total		406	(1)
International career
1992–2001	Switzerland	55	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marco Pascolo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarkoˈpaskolo] ; born 9 May 1966) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He spent his best playing days at Servette FC and FC Zürich in the 1990s and early 2000s (decade). Between 1992 and 2001, he made 55 appearances for the Switzerland national team. He is currently goalkeeping coach for FC Sion.

Career

Born in Sion, Pascolo started playing football professionally in 1986, with local club FC Sion. At Sion, he failed to break into the first-team and left for Neuchâtel Xamax in 1989. During his first season at Xamax, he was used in a squad rotation system, only playing once every few weeks, but in his second season he hit top form and claimed the Number 1 jersey for himself. He signed for Servette FC in 1991 and became a fan favourite almost immediately. Shortly after signing for Servette, he earned a call-up to the Swiss national team. After achieving all he could at Servette, he went to Serie A with Cagliari Calcio in 1996, but found first-team action hard to come by. And after just one season in Italy, he left for England's Nottingham Forrest. He played even fewer games there and returned to Switzerland in 1998 with FC Zürich. He was a first-team regular in Zürich for four seasons before he returned to Servette in 2002 to finish his career.

He was capped 55 times for the Swiss national team between 1992 and 2001. He was in the Swiss squad at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, playing all four games, and also at Euro 1996.

He is now a goalkeeping coach at FC Sion.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition ^[1]

Club	Season
		Division	Apps	Goals
Sion	1986–87	Nationalliga A	1	0
	1987–88		13	0
	1988–89		3	1
	Total	17	1
Neuchatel Xamax	1989–90	Nationalliga A	18	0
	1990–91		34	0
	Total	52	0
Servette	1991–92	Nationalliga A	35	0
	1992–93		36	0
	1993–94		35	0
	1994–95		35	0
	1995–96		35	0
	Total	176	0
Cagliari Calcio	1996–97	Serie A	14	0
Nottingham Forest	1997–98	Football League First Division	5	0
FC Zürich	1998–99	Nationalliga A	12	0
	1999–00		34	0
	2000–01		34	0
	2001–02		35	0
	Total	115	0
Servette	2002–03	Nationalliga A	27	0
Career total			406	1

Honours

Neuchâtel Xamax

• Swiss Super Cup: 1990 ^[2]

FC Zürich

• Swiss Cup: 1999–2000 ^[3]

References

1. "Marco Pascolo » Club matches". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
2. "Switzerland Super Cup Finals". RSSSF . Retrieved 22 February 2022.
3. "Finals 2000-2019". fussball-schweiz.ch. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

External links

• Marco Pascolo at National-Football-Teams.com