Sandro Grande
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | September 29, 1977 | ||
Place of birth | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1997–1998 | 6 | (1) | |
1998–1999 | 26 | (12) | |
1999–2000 | Potenza | 22 | (2) |
2000–2001 | Frosinone | 27 | (1) |
2001–2003 | Brescia | 0 | (0) |
2001–2002 | → Catanzaro (loan) | 8 | (1) |
2002 | → Frosinone (loan) | 7 | (0) |
2002–2003 | → Potenza (loan) | 18 | (0) |
2003–2004 | Albalonga | 21 | (0) |
2004–2005 | Montreal Impact | 31 | (6) |
2005 | Viking | 6 | (0) |
2006–2007 | Molde | 14 | (0) |
2008–2009 | Montreal Impact | 17 | (1) |
2010–2011 | FK Sūduva | 24 | (1) |
2012 | FC St-Léonard | 13 | (3) |
2013 | 2 | (0) | |
National team‡ | |||
2004–2006 | Canada | 12 | (1) |
Teams managed | |||
2019 | CS Monteuil | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 October 2009 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23 December 2009 |
Sandro Grande (born September 29, 1977) is a Canadian former soccer player.
Club career[]
Italy[]
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Grande began his career in Italy, He played four years with and Potenza and Frosinone in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[citation needed]
Grande became the first Quebec-born footballer to sign with a Serie A club, signing a three-year deal with Brescia in 2001.[citation needed] After appearing in just one match for the first team, in the Intertoto Cup in July 2001, Grande was loaned back to Serie C side Frosinone, and then later played in Serie D with and Potenza and Albalonga.[1]
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Grande returned to Canada in 2004 to play for the of the USL First Division, where he played 30 games and was selected to the First All-Star Team for 2004.
In July 2005, he moved to Norway to play for Viking in the Norwegian Premier League, before moving on to Molde in March 2006. After his contract with Molde expired in 2007, the club chose not to renew it. After fully recovering from surgery on both knees, he returned to Montreal Impact. Upon his return Grande scored one goal in six regular season games, which he scored on September 5 against the Minnesota Thunder. He helped the Impact qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League quarter finals, playing six games in the tournament.[2]
On December 2, 2008 the Montreal Impact announced the re-signing of Grande. He was released July 20, 2009 following an in-game choking incident with team captain Mauro Biello.
Lithuania[]
On March 16, 2010 Sandro Grande signed a contract with Lithuanian club FK Suduva.[3]
Return to Canada[]
In 2012, Sandro Grande signed a contract with the FC St-Léonard of the Première Ligue de Soccer du Québec. He was capped for 13 games, scoring 3 goals.
Currently, Sandro Grande is the Technical Director of Les Étoiles de L'Est.
International career[]
Grande made his debut for the Canadian national football team in a September 2004 World Cup qualification match against Costa Rica and has earned a total of 12 caps, scoring 1 goal. He has represented Canada in 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches[4] and was a member of Canada's squad at the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
International goals[]
- Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 3 September 2005 | Estadio El Sardinero, Santander, Spain | ![]() |
1–2 | 1–2 | Friendly match |
Coaching career[]
CS Monteuil[]
On September 20, 2018 CS Monteuil announced Sandro Grande as the new team coach for the 2019 PLSQ season season,[5] although he departed before the end of the season.[6]
References[]
- ^ The 24th Minute: Fightin' Sandro Grande released by the Impact Archived 2009-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Impact release Sandro Grande Archived 2009-07-24 at archive.today
- ^ Sandro Grande joined FK Suduva Archived 2010-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Record at FIFA Tournaments – FIFA
- ^ "Masucci nomme Sandro Grande su poste d'entraîneur chef". 20 September 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ "Monteuil – Sandro Grande : divorce à l'amiable" [Monteuil - Sandro Grande: amicable divorce]. Juste Soccer (in French). September 4, 2019.
External links[]
- MontreaImpact.com with Grande's profile
- Sandro Grande – Facebook
- Sandro Grande at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1977 births
- Living people
- 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- Association football midfielders
- Canada men's international soccer players
- Canadian expatriate soccer players
- Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Norway
- Canadian people of Italian descent
- Canadian soccer coaches
- Canadian soccer players
- Frosinone Calcio players
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Expatriate footballers in Lithuania
- Expatriate footballers in Norway
- Molde FK players
- Montreal Impact (1992–2011) players
- Soccer players from Montreal
- Eliteserien players
- U.S. Catanzaro 1929 players
- USL First Division players
- Première Ligue de soccer du Québec players
- Viking FK players