Alessandro Iandoli (born 29 April 1984) is a Swiss former

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who played as a

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. He also holds Italian nationality.

Career

Born in

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, Iandoli first played his youth football with

Nordstern Basel FC Nordstern Basel is a football team from Basel, Switzerland. Currently playing in the Swiss 8th division, FC Nordstern Basel has spent 35 seasons in the Swiss top flight, last in 1982. They were runners-up in the Swiss league in 1924, 1927, and ...

, but after a few years he moved on to

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...

. He advanced to Basel's first team during their 2002–03 season. Iandoli played in a four of the teams test matches that season and travelled with the team to the summer training camp in USA. Here he played in all three test games, including the match in

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on 15 June 2002. He scored his first goal for the club in the same game as Basel won 8–2 against

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. However he played with Basel's U-21 team that season in the third tier of Swiss football. With their U-21 team he played in 25 games scoring 11 goals. Iandoli started his professional career at Switzerland for

Concordia Basel FC Concordia Basel is a Swiss association football, football club based in Basel. The club was founded in 1907. They play in the 2nd regional league which is the fifth level, and their home stadium was Rankhof Stadium until the 2008-09 season. F ...

. He played 139 matches at

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. In August 2008, he returned to Italy for

Pescara Pescara (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label= Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approxim ...

. On 6 August, he was loaned to

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, along with

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. Later he returned to Pescara at

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and player 12 matches. His contract was canceled in mutual consent in July 2009, along with Claudio De Sousa.

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