Marco Simone
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| Marco Simone | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | January 7, 1969 | |
| Place of birth | Castellanza, Italy | |
| Playing position | Striker, Winger | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | A.C. Legnano - chairman | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1986-1987 1987-1988 1988-1989 1989-1997 1997-1999 1999-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2004 2005-2006 |
Como Virescit Boccaleone (loan) Como AC Milan Paris SG AS Monaco AC Milan AS Monaco OGC Nice Legnano Total |
2 (0) 33 (15) 34 (6) 168 (49) 58 (22) 69 (28) 9 (0) 5 (0) 7 (0) 1 (0) 386 (120) |
| National team | ||
| 1992-1996 | Italy | 4 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Marco Simone (born January 7, 1969 in Castellanza) is an Italian former professional football (soccer) player in the striker or winger position. He most prominently played for AC Milan, with whom he won four Italian Serie A championships, as well as French clubs Paris Saint-Germain and AS Monaco. He played four games for the Italian national team. Now, he is the chairman of A.C. Legnano.
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[edit] Biography
He debuted in the Italian Serie A championship for Como on January 11, 1987. After a few appearances in the top-flight Serie A, he was put on loan at Virescit Boccaleone in the secondary Serie C1 league. He scored 15 goals for Virescit in the 1987-88 season, and finished as top scorer of the Serie C1 league.
He returned to Como for the 1988-89 Serie A season, in which he scored 6 goals. Como finished dead last in the tournament, and was relegated to Serie B, and Simone was brought into the squad of third-place finishers AC Milan by Milan manager Arrigo Sacchi. His stay at Milan would be long and successful, as he won the 1990 European Cup under manager Sacchi, as well as four Serie A titles in five years from 1992 to 1996 and the 1994 UEFA Champions League under the management of Fabio Capello. Simone made his debut for the Italian national team in 1992 under then national team manager Arrigo Sacchi. He would go on to play four games for the national team, but did not score any national team goals.
His best season for Milan came during the 1994-95 Serie A season, where he scored 17 goals in 30 games. Despite competing for the attacking spots at Milan with the three FIFA World Player of the Year award winners Marco van Basten (1992), Roberto Baggio (1993) and George Weah (1995), he scored a total of 74 goals in 245 games in all competitions for AC Milan.[1]
In 1997, he moved abroad to play for French club Paris Saint-Germain, with whom he won the 1998 Coupe de France. He transferred to AS Monaco in 1999. He scored 21 goals in 34 games in the 1999-00 season, and helped Monaco win the French 2000 Ligue 1 championship. He returned to AC Milan for parts of the 2001-02 Serie A season, though he did not score any goals in his short spell. He returned to Monaco, but rarely played during the 2002-03 Ligue 1 season.
Following an unsuccessful season playing for OGC Nice, he retired from football in 2004, at the age of 35. He made a short come-back as he played a single game for Serie C2 club Legnano in 2005, before becoming part of the technical staff at the club.
[edit] Honours
- Serie A : 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996 with AC Milan
- Ligue 1 : 2000 with AS Monaco
- Coupe de France : 1998 with Paris SG
- Coupe de la Ligue : 1998 with Paris SG
- European Cup and UEFA Champions League:[2] 1990 and 1994 with AC Milan
- European Super Cup : 1989 and 1994 with AC Milan
- Intercontinental Cup : 1989 with AC Milan
[edit] References
- ^ (Danish) Marco Simone at ACMilan.dk
- ^ From the 1992-93 season, the European Cup changed its structure and was renamed the UEFA Champions League.
[edit] External links
- (French) L'Equipe profile
