Arjan Peço (born 26 April 1975) is an Albanian
football coach and former player who was the head coach of
Basel U-21 and currently the first-team coach for
Ligue 1
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club
Nice
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.
Club career
During a playing than span 16 years, Peço played for
Dinamo and
Partizani in Albania, and
Delémont
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History
The area of the municipality was already settled in the middle Bronze Age. Fifteen urn buria ...
,
Yverdon
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,
Concordia and
Laufen in Switzerland.
International career
Peço made his debut for
Albania
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in an April 1996
friendly match
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against
Bosnia and earned a total of 13 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a January 2002 Bahrain Tournament match against
Bahrain
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.
Managerial career
Since 2011 he has been working for
Basel
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, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
in the academy. In summer 2017 he was appointed head coach of
Basel U-21. He left the post in 2020.
Honours
Partizani
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Albanian Cup:
1996–97
References
External links
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1975 births
Living people
Footballers from Tirana
Albanian footballers
Albania international footballers
Albanian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Association football midfielders
FK Dinamo Tirana players
FK Partizani Tirana players
SR Delémont players
Yverdon-Sport FC players
FC Concordia Basel players
FC Laufen players
Albanian football managers
FC Basel non-playing staff
OGC Nice non-playing staff
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