Philippe Montandon

Philippe Montandon ( born July 15, 1982 in Uster) is a Swiss football player who is under contract with FC St. Gallen in the Axpo Super League since 2011.

Career

Philippe Montandon began in 1987 at the age of 5 years playing football in junior FC Brüttisellen. In 1996, he joined the junior FC Winterthur, where he was in the 1999/2000 season his debut in the first team. Montandon soon established himself as a regular player and in 2002 a National League A - team FC Wil. He also celebrated at the same time its greatest success yet with the victory in the FA Cup final in 2004 against the Grasshoppers. Nevertheless, the FC Wil dismounted from the Super League at the end of the season.

Montandon then moved to FC St. Gallen, where he became a stalwart in the team. As 2007 came a new coach Ralf Loose and no longer sat on Montandon, this changed during the winter break to FC Schaffhausen, where he played the next one and a half seasons. It was followed by a move to Italy to Chievo Verona. However, he was there immediately loaned for several seasons to FC Lugano, where he also took over the Captain role. In the fall of 2009 at a medical examination at Philippe Mont Anton testicular cancer has been found. Then, a tumor was removed on the right testicle.

After Montandon Lugano with the rise League narrowly missed several times in the super, he moved to losers FC St. Gallen, with whom he made ​​the chances of promotion to the Super League. There he also took over the role of Captain- retired Daniel Imhof and reached with his team the surprising third place and qualification for the UEFA Europa League.

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