Marco Simone

Marco Simone
Personal information
Full name Marco Simone
Date of birth (1969-01-07) 7 January 1969
Place of birth Castellanza, Italy
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Striker / Winger
Club information
Current team
 Laval
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)
National team
1988–1990 Italy U21 16 (7)
1992–1996 Italy 4 (0)
Teams managed
2011–2012 Monaco
2014–2015 Lausanne-Sport
2015–2016 Tours FC
2016- Laval

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


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

As a manager, Simone, has also served as the head coach of Monaco in the French Ligue 2, and Lausanne-Sport.

Playing career

Early career

Simone 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.

Milan

In the summer of 1989, 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) (as well as the presence of Ruud Gullit, Dejan Savićević, Daniele Massaro, Paolo Di Canio, Jean-Pierre Papin, Christophe Dugarry, and Brian Laudrup), he scored a total of 74 goals in 245 games in all competitions for Milan.[1][3]

International debut

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 in total for the national team between 1992 and 1996, but did not score any goals for Italy.[1][4]

Later career in France and return to Italy

In 1997, Simone 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 during the 1999–2000 season, and helped Monaco win the French Ligue 1 championship in 2000. He returned to 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]
Paris Saint-Germain[6]
A.S. Monaco[6]

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Marco Simone" (in Italian). Maglia Rossonera. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "A.C. Milan Hall of Fame: Marco Simone". acmilan.com. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  3. ↑ (Danish) Marco Simone at ACMilan.dk
  4. ↑ "Nazionale in cifre: Simone, Marco" (in Italian). FIGC. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  5. ↑ From the 1992–93 season, the European Cup changed its structure and was renamed the UEFA Champions League.
  6. 1 2 "Marco Simone". Eurosport. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Raí		 Paris Saint-Germain captain
1998–1999 		Succeeded by
Éric Rabésandratana
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