Giorgio Contini

Giorgio Contini (born 4 January 1974) is a former Swiss footballer and current manager.

Giorgio Contini
Personal information
Full name Giorgio Contini
Date of birth (1974-01-04) 4 January 1974
Place of birth Switzerland
Playing position(s) Forward
Youth career
1991–1992 YF Juventus Zürich
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–1994 FC Winterthur 34 (3)
1994–1995 FC Frauenfeld 30 (23)
1995–1996 FC Baden 36 (18)
1996–2001 FC St. Gallen 144 (25)
2001–2002 FC Luzern 15 (1)
2002–2003 FC Lausanne-Sport 28 (6)
2003–2005 FC Winterthur 72 (19)
Total 359 (95)
National team
2001 Switzerland 1 (0)
Teams managed
2005–2006 FC Oberwinterthur
2006–2011 FC St. Gallen II
2006–2007 FC St. Gallen (assistant)
2011 FC St. Gallen
2011–2012 FC Luzern (assistant)
2012–2017 FC Vaduz
2017–2018 FC St. Gallen
2018– Lausanne-Sport
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Teams

He played at various clubs in Switzerland, u.a for FC Winterthur, FC St. Gallen, FC Luzern and FC Lausanne-Sport. His greatest success was the Swiss championships with FC St. Gallen in 1999/2000. In summer 2005, he ended his footballing career.

National

Contini completed on 28 February 2001 his only international match for Switzerland in a friendly match against Poland.

Coaching career

After retiring as soccer player trained from the summer of 2005 the FC Oberwinterthur from the 2. Liga Interregional for half a year. From January 2006 until June 2011, he coached FC St. Gallen II, he was in parallel from January 2006 to autumn 2007, assistant coach of the first team of FC St. Gallen, which he called for a 1 game in March 2011 interim coach supervised. In July 2011 he became assistant coach Murat Yakin for FC Luzern. On 20 August 2012 both were dismissed.

Contini is since 15 November 2012 Head Coach of FC Vaduz. In the summer of 2014 he went to the FC Vaduz on in the Super League. He still has a contract until June 2017.

Honours

Player

FC St. Gallen

Manager

FC Vaduz

Individual

  • Liechtensteiner Coach of the Year (2): 2014, 2016

Personal life

Contini is of Italian descent.[1]

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References

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