Massimo Lombardo (born 9 January 1973) is a former

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international

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. He is currently the academy manager of Swiss side

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Senior career

Lombardo has played over 300 games in the

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. He started his career at Canton Ticino's team

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and moved to

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where he stayed for five seasons, his longest club cap. After a season at

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club

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, he moved back to Switzerland with stuns at

FC Lugano FC Lugano is a Swiss professional football club based in Lugano. The club was refounded as AC Lugano in 2004 as a result of relegation and the financial situation of FC Lugano, which was founded in 1908. In 2008, the club reverted to its origina ...

, Lausanne-Sports and

. He then briefly played for

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in 2004–05

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(Switzerland's second division) season before moving back to the Super League with Neuchâtel Xamax FC, but failed to avoid relegation to Challenge League. In summer 2008, he joined

FC Stade Nyonnais FC Stade Nyonnais is an association football club based in the town of Nyon, Switzerland. The team currently competes in the Swiss Challenge League, Challenge League, the second tier of the Swiss football league system and plays its home matches ...

, newly promoted to Challenge League from 1. Liga, where he retired as a professional footballer in June 2009.

Managerial career

In 2017, Lombardo was named assistant manager of Swiss side FC Basel. He then joined Servette FC's academy as its manager in 2019, his current position.

References

External links

*http://www.football.ch/sfl/1106/de/Kader.aspx?tId=0&pId=207394 Swiss men's footballers Switzerland men's international footballers Swiss expatriate men's footballers AC Bellinzona players Grasshopper Club Zurich players AC Perugia Calcio players FC Lugano players FC Lausanne-Sport players Servette FC players Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players Swiss Super League players Serie B players Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Bellinzona FC Stade Nyonnais players 1973 births Living people FC Meyrin players {{Switzerland-footy-midfielder-stub