Simone Grippo

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Simone Grippo
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-12-12) 12 December 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Ettingen, Switzerland
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
 FC Basel (coach)
Youth career
1998–2005 Ettingen
2005–2006 Basel
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006–2008 Basel U-21 22 (1)
2007–2008 → Concordia (loan) 24 (4)
2008 → Bellinzona (loan) 0 (0)
2008–2011 ChievoVerona 2 (0)
2009 → Piacenza (loan) 3 (0)
2009–2010 → Lumezzane (loan) 17 (1)
2010 → Frosinone (loan) 23 (0)
2011–2012 → Lugano (loan) 13 (1)
2012–2013 Servette 9 (0)
2013–2017 Vaduz 97 (7)
2017–2020 Zaragoza 64 (3)
2020–2021 Oviedo 32 (1)
2021–2024 Lausanne-Sport 42 (2)
2022 Lausanne-Sport II 1 (0)
International career‡
2006 Switzerland U-18 2 (0)
2006–2007 Switzerland U-19 6 (0)
2007–2008 Switzerland U-20 9 (2)
2009–2010 Switzerland U-21 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 May 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 January 2018

Simone Grippo (born 12 December 1988) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as central defender. He was a Swiss youth international footballer. Since January 2025 he works for FC Basel's youth department as coordinater and coach.

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Career

Club

Born and living in Ettingen, Grippo started his youth football with the local amateur club FC Ettingen.

In the summer of 2005, Grippo joined the youth department of FC Basel and played in their U-18 team during the 2005–06 season, under coach Patrick Rahmen and his assistant Marco Walker and with them won both the Swiss U-18 championship and the U-19/18 national cup that season. [1] In the summer of 2006 he advanced to join their U-21 team and before the season started attended the trainings of the first team under head coach Christian Gross. After playing in two test games, Grippo played his debut for the team in the first qualifying round of the 2006–07 UEFA Cup, on 13 July 2006. He was in the starting eleven, playing as central midfielder, as Basel played a home game in the St. Jakob-Park and they won 3–1 against Kazakhi side FC Tobol. [2]

On 12 July 2007 Basel announced that they were loaning Grippo out to local feeder club FC Concordia Basel for the 2007–08 Challenge League season. Originally it had been a six month loan period to Concordia, but in December the two clubs, together with the player, agreed to extended it into a full season loan. [3] Grippo had 25 league and two cup appearances, scoring a total of five goals. Concordia ended the league season in seventh position. [4]

In summer 2008 he was loaned out to AC Bellinzona, but before he could play any competitive games, he left them again and on 5 August it was announced that he signed for A.C. ChievoVerona of Italian Serie A on a permanent contract. [5] [6]

He made his first appearance for Chievo Verona on 11 January 2009, which resulted in a 1–1 draw against FC Bologna. The young prospect was loaned successively to Piacenza, Lumezzane, Frosinone and then to Lugano. Grippo's loan to Piacenza was for the second half of the 2008–09 Serie B. He was with Lumezzane, in the Serie C during the 2009–10 season. With Frosinone he played the 2010–11 Serie B season, but at the end they suffered relegation. For the second half of 2011–12 Challenge League season Grippo was loaned back to Switzerland and played for Lugano, where he will establish himself as a defender in the starting formation. On 15 July 2012 Swiss Super League club Servette announced that they had signed a 3-year contract with Grippo. [7]

He made his debut in a 5–1 away defeat against Lausanne-Sport. However, before the winter break he suffered an injury and was out for over six months with persistent bursitis of the knee, then at the end of the 2012–13 Swiss Super League season his contract was dissolved as Servette suffered relegation. [8]

During his recovery from his knee problems, he had kept himself fit training with FC Basel under observation of their medical team, because he was not under contract with a club. [9]

On 19 December 2013, the Swiss Football League (SFL) announced that Grippo had signed for Vaduz and he stayed with them for three and a half seasons. In his first, the team became 2013–14 Swiss Challenge League champions and won promotion. [10] But in his last the team suffered relegation. [11] During his time with Vaduz he made 97 league appearances, scoring seven goals. Also during this time the team won the Liechtensteiner Cup four times. [12] He left the club at the end of June 2017, because he did not extend his expiring contract. [13]

On 13 June 2017, he signed a two-year contract with Spanish Segunda División side Real Zaragoza. [14]

On 13 January 2020, he signed for Segunda side Real Oviedo and he was team captain until the end of the season. [15]

In 2021 Grippo returned to Switzerland, on 29 August Lausanne-Sport announced that they had signed a contract with Grippo for the 2021–22 Swiss Super League season. [16] However at the end of the season the team suffered relegation. [17]

After the relegation with Lausanne, Grippo remained combative. In an interview he promised to stay with the club and it was his aim for an immediate promotion at the end of the 2022–23 Swiss Challenge League season. [18] This was achieved as division runners-up. He remained with the club for another year and after the 2023–24 Swiss Super League season Grippo retired from his active career. [19]

International

Grippo is of Italian descent. [20] He was a youth international for Switzerland.

Post playing career

On 3 January 2025, FC Basel 1893 announced that they had hired their former player Grippo to look after and coordinate the loaned FCB players. He also took on special coaching duties in the Rotblau youth department. [21] [22]

Honours

Basel
Lumezzane
Vaduz

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References

  1. 1 2 3 FC Basel 1893 (2006). "Zwei weitere Titel für FCB-Nachwuchs" [Two more titles for FCB youngsters] (in Swiss High German). FC Basel 1893. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ uefa.com (13 July 2006). "FC Basel 3-1 FC Tobol Kostanay". uefa.com. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  3. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (2007). "Simone Grippo leihweise zu Concordia Basel". FC Basel 1893. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Garin, Erik; Stokkermans, Karel; Zea, Anthonio; Dalence, Daniel (2018). "Switzerland 2007/08". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
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  6. ↑ "OFFICIAL, Simone Grippo to Chievo". TransferMarketWeb.com. 5 August 2008. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  7. ↑ "Grippo en grenat pour 3 saisons" (in French). Servette FC. 16 July 2012. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
  8. ↑ Stokkermans, Karel (2017). "Switzerland 2012/13" (in French). Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  9. ↑ Zumoberhaus, Michel (23 April 2016). "Ich schätze sehr, was ich jetzt habe" [I really appreciate what I have now] (in Swiss High German). tagblatt.ch. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
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  11. ↑ Stokkermans, Karel; Garin, Erik (2021). "Switzerland 2016/17". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  12. ↑ Stokkermans, Karel; Kramarsic, Igor (2023). "Liechtenstein - List of Cup Finals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  13. ↑ (sda) (25 March 2017). "Grippo verlässt den FC Vaduz" [Grippo is leaving FC Vaduz] (in German). Tagblatt. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
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  15. ↑ "Oficial: Grippo deja Zaragoza y apuntala la defensa del Oviedo". Marca.com (in Spanish). 30 January 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  16. ↑ Lausanne-Sport (29 August 2021). "Simone Grippo est Lausannois" [Simone Grippo joins Lausanne] (in French). Lausanne-Sport. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
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  18. ↑ Curty, Ugo (9 May 2022). "Grippo macht klare Ansage für nächste Saison" [Grippo makes a clear announcement for next season] (in Swiss High German). blick.ch. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
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