Daniel Greco (born 11 July 1979) is a retired Swiss football striker.[1]

Daniel Greco
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-07-11) 11 July 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth Geneva (Switzerland)
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) forward
Youth career
1984-1995 Servette FC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1998 Grasshopper Club 1 (0)
1998–1999 Étoile Carouge FC
1999–2000 Stade Nyonnais
2000–2001 SC Kriens 2 (0)
2001-2002 FC Aarau
2002 FC Luzern
2002 Carrarese Calcio 9 (0)
2003 FC Baden 11 (1)
2004 FC Bulle
2005 FC Winterthur
2006-2007 FC Bulle
2007 FC Meyrin
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Daniel Greco is a retired professional Swiss footballer who was playing position centre-forward for several clubs in Switzerland, in Italy, Carrarese Calcio C1 and was striker for the Swiss National team U18 and U21 which was trained by the Swiss football legend Köbi Kuhn.[2] The Italian Swiss Player forced to retire early from his football profession due to several major injuries during his football career.

Career

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As an active youth football player he played his first Swiss Final championship with Servette FC vs Grasshopper Club Zürich, Category Junior C, in 1993. In 1994 he won the Swiss championship U 15, GEF and in 1995 the Swiss Champion Category B1, Fc Servette vs Fc Lugano.

Daniel Greco [3] signed his first professional contract with Grasshoppers Club Zürich in 1996 for a period of 5 years. There, he made his debut, where he won the Swiss Championship and Swiss cup in 1996 with U21 and scored in total 28 goals. Greco made his first appearance in the LNA league against Servette Fc in 1996. Further up Greco got pitched with Grasshoppers for the UEFA Champions League against Ajax Amsterdam, AJ Auxerre and Rangers F.C.

As a Swiss National Football player he played with U18 and U21 for the Euro Qualifiers with success. With the U21 Team, he scored a total of 6 goals in 8 matches.

Statistics show that Daniel Greco's scores were significant for the U21 Qualification Euro 2002.[4] Overall Greco's stats as in Étoile Carouge FC LNB, SC Kriens LNA-LNB, FC Bulle, FC Luzern and FC Baden show an outstanding performance.

References

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  1. ^ https://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil/daniel-greco/ Weltfussball
  2. ^ "Fussball: Köbi Kuhn testet 17 Nati-Spieler".
  3. ^ "home". grecodani.com. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)