Marco Simone

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Marco Simone
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Personal information
Full name Marco Simone
Date of birth (1969-01-07) 7 January 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth Castellanza, Italy
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Position(s) Striker / Winger
Team information
Current team
 Tours FC (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986–1989 Como 36 (6)
1987–1988 → Virescit (loan) 33 (15)
1989–1997 Milan 168 (49)
1997–1999 Paris Saint-Germain 58 (22)
1999–2001 Monaco 69 (28)
2001–2002 Milan 9 (0)
2002–2003 Monaco 5 (0)
2004 Nice 7 (0)
2005–2006 Legnano 1 (0)
Total 386 (120)
International career
1988–1990 Italy U21 16 (7)
1992–1996 Italy 4 (0)
Managerial career
2011–2012 Monaco
2014–2015 Lausanne-Sport
2015– Tours FC
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marco Simone (born 7 January 1969 in Castellanza) is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a striker or winger and current manager of Tours FC. He most prominently played for A.C. Milan, with whom he won four Italian Serie A championships, as well as French clubs Paris Saint-Germain and AS Monaco. Simone played four games for the Italian national team.

He was also the head coach of Monaco in the French Ligue 2.

Playing career

He debuted in the Italian Serie A championship for Como on 11 January 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.[1]

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 A.C. Milan by 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.[1][2]

His best season for Milan came during the 1994–95 Serie A season, where he scored 17 goals in 30 games, as well as 4 in the Champions League, for a total of 21 goals in all competitions, as Milan reached the 1995 UEFA Champions League Final, only to be defeated by Ajax. He also managed 11 goals in all competitions during the 1995–96 season, 8 of which came in Serie A, finishing as the club's second highest goalscorer behind George Weah as Milan won the Serie A title. 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 Milan.[1][3]

During his time with Milan, Simone also made his senior debut for the Italian national team on 19 December 1992, under then national team manager Arrigo Sacchi, in a 2–1 away win against Malta. He would go on to play four games for the national team between 1992 and 1996, but did not score any national team goals.[1][4]

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 and made 15 assists in 34 games in the 1999–2000 season, and helped Monaco win the French Ligue 1 championship in 2000. 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.[1]

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.[1]

Post-playing and coaching career

In 2005 he acquired Legnano, becoming shareholder at the club and also appearing once as a player. As a board member, he contributed to guide Legnano back to Serie C1 in 2007.

He successively became a FIFA-licensed football agent and, in 2009, a market consultant for his former club AS Monaco FC. In September 2011, Monaco offered him the head coaching role in attempt to turn the fortunes of the club, freshly relegated to Ligue 2 and last-placed in the second French tier. He was confirmed also after the club takeover led by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, but sacked at the end of the season.

Honours

Club

A.C. Milan[2]
A.S. Monaco[6]
Paris Saint-Germain[6]

Individual

  • Serie C1 Top-scorer (15 goals): 1987–88
  • France Football - Best Ligue 1 Foreign Player (2): 1997–98, 1999–2000
  • Trophées UNFP du football: 1
  • Best player of Division 1: 1998
  • A.C. Milan Hall of Fame[2]

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ (Danish) Marco Simone at ACMilan.dk
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ From the 1992–93 season, the European Cup changed its structure and was renamed the UEFA Champions League.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by Paris Saint-Germain captain
1998-1999		 Succeeded by
Éric Rabésandratana
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