Simone Grippo

Club

Born and living in Ettingen, Grippo started his youth football with the local amateur club FC Ettingen. In the summer of 2005, Grippo joined the youth department of FC Basel and played in their U-18 team during the 2005–06 season, under coach Patrick Rahmen and his assistant Marco Walker and with them won both the Swiss U-18 championship and the U-19/18 national cup that season. In the summer of 2006 he advanced to join their U-21 team and before the season started attended the trainings of the first team under head coach Christian Gross. After playing in two test games, Grippo played his debut for the team in the first qualifying round of the 2006–07 UEFA Cup, on 13 July 2006. He was in the starting eleven, playing as central midfielder, as Basel played a home game in the St. Jakob-Park and they won 3–1 against Kazakhi side FC Tobol. On 12 July 2007 Basel announced that they were loaning Grippo out to local feeder club FC Concordia Basel for the 2007–08 Challenge League season. Originally it had been a six month loan period to Concordia, but in December the two clubs, together with the player, agreed to extended it into a full season loan. Grippo had 25 league and two cup appearances, scoring a total of five goals. Concordia ended the league season in seventh position. In summer 2008 he was loaned out to AC Bellinzona, but before he could play any competitive games, he left them again and on 5 August it was announced that he signed for A.C. ChievoVerona of…

Basel Swiss Champion at U-18 level: 2005–06 Swiss Cup Winner at U-19/U-18 level: 2005–06 Lumezzane Coppa Italia Serie C: 2009–10 Vaduz Swiss Challenge League: 2013–14 Liechtensteiner Cup: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17