Sébastien Barberis (born 31 May 1972) is a Swiss retired

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who played mainly as defender or

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. He is the son of

Umberto Barberis Umberto Barberis or simply Berto (born 5 June 1952 in Sion, Switzerland) is a former Swiss- Italian footballer, last managing Dubai Club. Playing career Barberis started his career in Switzerland, playing for FC Sion in his native town, an ...

Football career

Barberis started his football career with

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in 1990 and then moved to

Lausanne Sports FC Lausanne–Sport (also referred to as LS) is a Swiss football club based in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud. Founded in 1896, Lausanne Sport played in the Swiss Super League in their most recent 2021-22 season, the highest tier of football ...

in 1992 before moving to Servette FC one year later. After four seasons with Servette he moved to Swiss giants

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in 1997. Barberis joined Basel's first team for their 1997–98 season under head coach

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. After playing in five test games, Barberis played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game in the Olympique de la Pontaise on 9 July 1997 as Basel were beaten 0–3 by Lausanne-Sport. He scored his first goal for the club on 13 September that year, in the away game in the

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as Basel lost 2–3 against

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. Between the years 1997 and 2005 Barberis played a total of 416 games for Basel scoring a total of 28 goals. 223 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, later called Super League, 20 in the

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, 39 in the UEFA competitions ( Champions League,

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and

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) and 134 were friendly games. He scored 16 goal in the domestic league, two in the Cup and the other 10 were scored during the test games. With Basel he won three Swiss league titles and two

s as well as progressing to the Second Group Stage of the

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. Then in 2005, he signed for 1. Liga side

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on a free transfer. He retired from his active playing career at the end of the 2006/07 season.

References

Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barberis, Sebastien Swiss men's footballers 1972 births Living people FC Basel players FC Lausanne-Sport players Servette FC players Swiss Super League players Men's association football midfielders