Dario Zuffi
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Dario Zuffi | ||
Date of birth | 7 December 1964 | ||
Place of birth | Winterthur, Switzerland | ||
Position(s) | Attacking Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | FC Winterthur - U-21 Trainer | ||
Youth career | |||
–1983 | FC Töss | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1983–1985 | FC Winterthur | 56 | (18) |
1985–1991 | BSC Young Boys | 186 | (81) |
1991–1993 | FC Lugano | 65 | (23) |
1993–1998 | FC Basel | 149 | (37) |
1998–2000 | FC Winterthur | 24 | (6) |
Total | 480 | (165) | |
International career | |||
1986–1997 | Switzerland | 19 | (6) |
Managerial career | |||
2000–2017 | FC Winterthur youth | ||
2013–2014 | Switzerland U–21 | ||
2017– | FC Winterthur (assistant) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Dario Zuffi (born 7 December 1964) is a Swiss football coach and former international player. He is currently employed as assistant coach for FC Winterthur.
Career
Playing career
Zuffi played his youth football with the local Winterthur team FC Töss. In 1983 he moved across town to join FC Winterthur's first team and signed his first professional contract for the 1983–84 Nationalliga A season. He prolonged the contract and he played with Winterthur for two seasons before he moved on.
In the off-season before the
Zuffi then transferred to FC Lugano for the 1992–93 season. In this season Zuffi contributed to the team reaching the final and winning the Swiss Cup.[3]
The following season, Zuffi moved home to the town of
Zuffi played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game in the
Zuffi remained with FC Basel until the end of the 1997–98 Nationalliga A season. Between the years 1993 and 1998 Zuffi played a total of 220 games for Basel scoring a total of 70 goals. 149 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, 15 in the Swiss Cup, five in the UEFA Intertoto Cup and 52 were friendly games. He scored 37 goals in the domestic league, nine in the Swiss Cup, four in the Interetoto Cup and the other 19 were scored during the test games.[7]
In 1998, Zuffi returned to the club where he launched his professional career FC Winterthur, who in the meantime had just been relegated to the 1st League, the third tier of Swiss football. He helped the club with seven goals in eleven games to their immediate return to the Nationalliga B. There he completed his last season of his active career in 1999–2000, during which he was used in all possible positions (striker, midfielder, libero). He then retired from professional soccer.
International career
In addition to his club career, Zuffi also scored 19 caps for the Switzerland national football team.
Managerial career
Since the end of his active playing career, Zuffi is employed as coach for FC Winterthur. First from 2000 to 2002 he looked after the U–12 youth team. Then from 2002 to 2004 he was coach for the U–16 team. From 2003 he was also coach of the U–21 team, with whom he achieved promotion to the then third-tier division and he was in this position until 2017, with an interruption between 2011 and 2014.
In addition to this, on various occasions he was required supervisor for their 1st team. From 2008 to 2009 he worked as an assistant under head-coach Mathias Walther for the first team. For the last two games of the FCW season 2015–16 he was ad-interim coach of the first team together with Umberto Romano and he has again performed the same interim function again from February to June 2017. Since 2017 he is assistant to first team head-coach Ralf Loose.[8]
From January 2013 to September 2014 Zuffi was also the assistant coach of the Swiss U-21 national team in addition to his position for his club.
Personal life
Zuffi has three sons, Sandro, Luca, and Nico. Luca Zuffi plays for FC Basel, Sandro and Nico play for SC Young Fellows Juventus in Zürich.
Titles and honours
Young Boys
- Nationalliga A: 1985–86
- Swiss Cup: 1986–87
- Swiss Super Cup: 1986[9]
- Swiss Football Championship top scorer: 1991
Lugano
- Swiss Cup: 1992–93
Basel
References
- ^ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1986/87". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1990/91". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1992/93". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". "FC Basel - Everton FC 1:0 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "FC Basel - BSC Old Boys 1:2 (1:2)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ Erik Garin, Luc Nackaerts. "Nationalliga A+B Promotion/relegation 1993/94". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". "Dario Zuffi- FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "Dario Zuffi". fcwinterthur.ch. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "Switzerland Super Cup Finals". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
Sources
- Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2189-1
- Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
- Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage