Christian Constantin

Christian Constantin ( born January 7, 1957 in Ayent, Canton Valais) is a Swiss entrepreneur and architect and former football goalkeeper. He is best known as the owner and president of the Swiss football club FC Sion. In the media, it is often called CC.

As a goalkeeper Constantin played from 1978 to 1979 in Neuchâtel Xamax and 1979-1980 with FC Lugano. His football career, he ended 1982 with FC Monthey. From 1992 to 1997 he was the first president of FC Sion, who won the championship and the cup competition under his presidency in 1997. Since 2003, Constantin has held this position again.

About Constantin is reported internationally, as he repeatedly had conflicts with parent organizations such as UEFA or FIFA. So he compared, for example, Sepp Blatter with Muammar al - Gaddafi. Compared with the FC Sion him an eccentric management style is said some critics accuse him of a " dictatorial " style before. He fell to frequent change of trainer: On 22 February 2011 he dismissed the Swiss Bernard Challandes his 28th coach.

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Constantin founded with 22 years of his architectural office. The Christian Constantin SA has 40 employees, sales of his company as per balance sheet to 150 million Swiss francs, be in accordance with WOZ 270 million Swiss francs. He had with his first wife one, with the second wife, two children, he lives now divorced. He lives in Martigny.