Stefano Ceccaroni (born 12 January 1961 in

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)Stefano Ceccaroni
''Worldfootball.net'' accessed December 2010 is a retired

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and manager who played as a defender or

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.Stefano Ceccaroni
accessed December 2010 He spent his entire career playing in

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. He is now businessman and works for the foundation of the

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and is in the business management.

Football career

Ceccaroni joined

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's first team for their 1980–81 season under head-coach

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. After playing in one test game Ceccaroni played his domestic league debut for his club in the home game in the

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on 5 April 1981. He scored his first goal for his club in the same game. It was the first goal of the match as Basel won 3–0 against

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. Just two weeks later in the away game against

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he was substituted in the 77th minute with the team one goal down. Ceccaroni scored the equaliser and saved his team from the defeat. Even three years later he was not getting regular playing time, therefore the club loaned Ceccaroni out to play for

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the second half of the

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season. He played 18 games, scoring two goals, but the team suffered relegation. The following season Ceccaroni was loaned out to second tier

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. In this season he played in 27 of the team's 30 matches and scored 10 goals and helped them win promotion. Ceccaroni played one more season with Basel before he moved on. Between the years 1980 and 1986 Ceccaroni played a total of 90 games for Basel scoring a total of 30 goals. 46 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, seven in the

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, one in the

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, three in the

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and 33 were friendly games. He scored five goal in the domestic league, one in the cup, one Alpencup and the other 23 were scored during the test games. Following his time with Basel, Ceccaroni ended his professional career. He played one season semi-professional with

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. Then he played seven seasons with FC Riehen. Here he started and achieved his trainer-license. Ceccaroni then moved onto Old Boys as player-coach for two and a half seasons. From summer 2001 FC Basel employed Ceccaroni for three and a half seasons as youth trainer. After

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had sacked their trainer

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in August 2004,

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took over as caretaker manager. Servette then contacted Ceccaroni, and Basel released him, and he took over as head coach until the end of the season. Following this, he was assistant trainer for

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and the trainer of their youth team. Ceccaroni is a teacher and mentor. Since 2016 he works for the foundation of the

and is in the business management, he is responsible for the sector of schooling, education, the residential building and the restaurant. Stefano is the elder brother of

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who spent his entire professional career (1987–2002) playing with

References

Sources

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