Marco Pascolo

Marco Pascolo
Personal information
Date of birth (1966-05-09) 9 May 1966
Place of birth Sion, Switzerland
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986–1989 Sion 17 (1)
1989–1991 Neuchâtel Xamax 52 (0)
1991–1996 Servette 176 (0)
1996–1997 Cagliari 14 (0)
1997–1998 Nottingham Forest 5 (0)
1998–2002 Zürich 115 (0)
2002–2003 Servette 27 (0)
Total 406 (1)
National team
1992–2001 Switzerland 55 (0)

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


Marco Pascolo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko ˈpaskolo]; born 9 May 1966, in Sion) is a retired Swiss international football goalkeeper who spent his best playing days at Servette FC and FC Zürich in the 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He is currently goalkeeping coach for FC Sion.

Career

Pascolo started playing professionally in 1986, with local club FC Sion. At Sion, he failed to break into the first-team and left for Neuchâtel Xamax in 1989. During his first season at Xamax, he was used in a squad rotation system, only playing once every few weeks, but in his second season he hit top form and claimed the Number 1 jersey for himself. He signed for Servette FC in 1991 and became a fans' favourite almost immediately. Shortly after signing for Servette, he earned a call-up to the Swiss national team. After achieving all he could at Servette, he went to Serie A with Cagliari Calcio in 1996, but found first-team action hard to come by. And after just one season in Italy, he left for England's Nottingham Forrest. He played even fewer games there and returned to Switzerland in 1998 with FC Zürich. He was a first-team regular in Zürich for four seasons before he returned to Servette in 2002 to finish his career.

He was capped 55 times for the Swiss national team between 1992 and 2001. He was in the Swiss squad at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, playing all four games, and also at Euro 1996.

He is now a goalkeeping coach at FC Sion.

Career statistics

Season Club Country Matches Goals
1986/87 FC Sion   Switzerland 1 0
1987/88 FC Sion   Switzerland 13 0
1988/89 FC Sion   Switzerland 3 1
1989/90 Neuchatel Xamax   Switzerland 18 0
1990/91 Neuchatel Xamax   Switzerland 34 0
1991/92 Servette FC   Switzerland 35 0
1992/93 Servette FC   Switzerland 36 0
1993/94 Servette FC   Switzerland 35 0
1994/95 Servette FC   Switzerland 35 0
1995/96 Servette FC   Switzerland 35 0
1996/97 Cagliari Calcio  Italy 14 0
1997/98 Nottingham Forest F.C.  England 5 0
1998/99 FC Zürich   Switzerland 12 0
1999/00 FC Zürich   Switzerland 34 0
2000/01 FC Zürich   Switzerland 34 0
2001/02 FC Zürich   Switzerland 35 0
2002/03 Servette FC   Switzerland 27 0
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