Pietro Di Nardo (born 8 February 1990) is a Swiss professional

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who plays as a

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for the Swiss club

Neuchâtel Xamax FCS Neuchâtel Xamax Football Club Serrières or Neuchâtel Xamax FCS () is a Swiss football club based in Neuchâtel. It was created in 1970 through a merger between FC Cantonal, founded in 1906 and Swiss champions of 1916, and FC Xamax founded ...

Professional career

Di Nardo joined

Neuchâtel Xamax Neuchâtel (, ; ; ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel. Since the fusion in 2021 of the municipalities of Neuchâtel, Corcelles-Cormondrèche, Peseux, and Valangin, the city has ap ...

on 7 June 2014, after a couple of years with

FC Biel-Bienne FC Biel-Bienne is a Swiss association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball ...

and

FC Thun Fussballclub Thun 1898 is a Swiss association football, football team from the Bernese Oberland town of Thun. The club plays in the Swiss Super League from 2025–26, the top tier of the Swiss football league system, following promotion from the ...

in the

Swiss Challenge League The Challenge League (known as the Dieci Challenge League for sponsorship reasons) is the second-highest tier of the Swiss football league system and lower of two professional leagues in the country. Ten teams play in the Challenge League; the wi ...

. On 29 March 2018 at the age of 28, Di Nardo signed his first professional contract after helping Xamax get promoted into the

Swiss Super League The Super League (also known as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsorship reasons) is a professional association football league in Switzerland and the highest level of the Swiss football league system. It has been played in its current fo ...

. Di Nardo made his professional debut in a 2-0

win over

FC Luzern Fussball-Club Luzern (), or simply abbreviated to FCL, is a Swiss sports club based in Lucerne (). It is best known for its professional association football, football team, which plays in the Swiss Super League, Super League, the top tier of the ...

on 21 July 2018. On 7 January 2020, Di Nardo moved to

Yverdon-Sport FC Yverdon-Sport FC is a Swiss football club based in Yverdon-les-Bains that is set to compete in the Challenge League, the second tier of Swiss football, after being relegated from the top-tier Swiss Super League in the 2024–25 season. The club ...

. However, he was not used in any officiel games, as the club's president, Mario Di Pietrantonio, expressed, that he wasn't convinced by Di Nardo since his arrival. Therefore, he left the club at the end of the season.

International career

Di Nardo was born in Switzerland and is of Italian and Portuguese descents. He was a youth international for Switzerland.

Honours

(1): 2016-17 *

Swiss Promotion League The Promotion League, named the Hoval Promotion League for sponsorship reasons, is the third tier of the Swiss football league system. Eighteen clubs compete in the league, playing each other twice over course of the season. The champions are prom ...

(1): 2014-15

References

External links

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Xamax profile

SFL Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Di Nardo, Pietro 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Biel/Bienne Footballers from the canton of Bern Swiss men's footballers Switzerland men's youth international footballers Swiss people of Italian descent Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players BSC Young Boys players FC Biel-Bienne players FC Thun players Yverdon-Sport FC players Swiss Challenge League players Swiss Super League players Men's association football midfielders 21st-century Swiss sportsmen