Sandro Grande

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Sandro Grande
Personal information
Date of birth (1977-09-29) September 29, 1977 (age 45)
Place of birth Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1997–1998 Frenter Larino 6 (1)
1998–1999 Isernia 26 (12)
1999–2000 Potenza 22 (2)
2000–2001 Frosinone 27 (1)
2001–2003 Brescia 0 (0)
2001–2002 → Catanzaro (loan) 8 (1)
2002 → Frosinone (loan) 7 (0)
2002–2003 → Potenza (loan) 18 (0)
2003–2004 Albalonga 21 (0)
2004–2005 Montreal Impact 31 (6)
2005 Viking 6 (0)
2006–2007 Molde 14 (0)
2008–2009 Montreal Impact 17 (1)
2010–2011 FK Sūduva 24 (1)
2012 FC St-Léonard 13 (3)
2013 Les Étoiles de l'Est 2 (0)
International career‡
2004–2006 Canada 12 (1)
Managerial career
2019 CS Monteuil
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 October 2009
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 December 2009

Sandro Grande (born September 29, 1977) is a Canadian former soccer player.

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Club career

Italy

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Grande began his career in Italy, He played four years with U.S.Frenter Larino and Potenza and Frosinone in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[ citation needed ]

Grande became the first Quebec-born footballer to sign with a Serie A club, signing a three-year deal with Brescia in 2001.[ citation needed ] After appearing in just one match for the first team, in the Intertoto Cup in July 2001, Grande was loaned back to Serie C side Frosinone, and then later played in Serie D with U.S.Frenter Larino and Potenza and Albalonga. [1]

Canada/Scandinavia

Grande returned to Canada in 2004 to play for the Montreal Impact of the USL First Division, where he played 30 games and was selected to the First All-Star Team for 2004.

In July 2005, he moved to Norway to play for Viking in the Norwegian Premier League, before moving on to Molde in March 2006. After his contract with Molde expired in 2007, the club chose not to renew it. After fully recovering from surgery on both knees, he returned to Montreal Impact. Upon his return Grande scored one goal in six regular season games, which he scored on September 5 against the Minnesota Thunder. He helped the Impact qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League quarter finals, playing six games in the tournament. [2]

On December 2, 2008 the Montreal Impact announced the re-signing of Grande. He was released July 20, 2009 following an in-game choking incident with team captain Mauro Biello.

Lithuania

On March 16, 2010 Sandro Grande signed a contract with Lithuanian club FK Suduva. [3]

Return to Canada

In 2012, Sandro Grande signed a contract with the FC St-Léonard of the Première Ligue de Soccer du Québec. He was capped for 13 games, scoring 3 goals.

Currently, Sandro Grande is the Technical Director of Les Étoiles de L'Est.

International career

Grande made his debut for the Canada national team in a September 2004 World Cup qualification match against Costa Rica and has earned a total of 12 caps, scoring 1 goal. He has represented Canada in 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches [4] and was a member of Canada's squad at the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

International goals

Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
13 September 2005 Estadio El Sardinero, Santander, Spain Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1–21–2 Friendly match

Coaching career

CS Monteuil

On September 20, 2018 CS Monteuil announced Grande as the new team coach for the 2019 PLSQ season, [5] although he departed before the end of the season. [6]

CF Montréal U23

Grande was hired on 9 January 2023 as the head coach of CF Montréal U23, the reserve side of MLS club CF Montréal. He was released from the position a day after due to backlash over comments Grande made on Twitter in 2012, following the attempted assassination of Quebec premier Pauline Marois. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ The 24th Minute: Fightin' Sandro Grande released by the Impact Archived 2009-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Impact release Sandro Grande Archived 2009-07-24 at archive.today
  3. ↑ Sandro Grande joined FK Suduva Archived 2010-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Record at FIFA Tournaments – FIFA
  5. ↑ "Masucci nomme Sandro Grande su poste d'entraîneur chef". 20 September 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  6. ↑ "Monteuil – Sandro Grande : divorce à l'amiable" [Monteuil - Sandro Grande: amicable divorce]. Juste Soccer (in French). September 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ "CF Montréal terminates Sandro Grande one day after coach was hired". Montreal Gazette . 10 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
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