Michel Morganella
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1989 (34 years old)
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Defender
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White
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Michel Morganella (born 17 May 1989) is a Swiss-Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Chiasso.
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Youth
Born to an Italian father and a Swiss mother, Morganella grew up in Chippis, on the boarder to Sierre. Morganella started his youth football with local amateur club FC Chippis. After a few years he moved to the youth department of Sion and in August 2004 he moved to the youth department of FC Basel. He played in their U-18 team during the 2005–06 season, under coach Patrick Rahmen and his assistant Marco Walker and with them won both the Swiss U-18 championship and the U-19/18 national cup that season. Thereafter, in summer 2006 he advanced to join their U-21 team and played as a right-back or a wide-right midfielder.
Basel
In the winter break of their 2006–07 season he was brought up to the first team by head coach Christian Gross. After playing in four test games Morganella played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game in the Stade Tourbillon on 25 February 2007, coming on as substitute in the 79th minute, as Basel played a goalless draw with Sion. He played two further games that season, both over the full 90 minutes. The following season Basel played in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup and in the last match of the group stage, as they played in the HSH Nordbank Arena on 20 December 2007, Morganella came on as substitute replacing David Degen in the 50th minute, after fellow right back Reto Zanni had been shown the second yellow card and been dismissed. The game against Hamburger SV ended with a 1–1 draw. At the end of their 2007–08 season Morganella won the Double with the club. They won the league championship title with four points advantage over second placed Young Boys. In the Swiss Cup Basel advanced to the final, and winning this 4–1 against AC Bellinzona they won the competition.
In the first half of their 2008–09 season Morganella had just two league appearances and one in the Swiss Cup 2008–09. Nevertheless, the club offered Morganella a new contract, to freshen up his expiring deal. On 2 November 2008 they signed a three-year contract which was intended to keep him at St. Jakob-Park until summer 2011. On 9 December Morganella played his Champions League debut in the last matchday of the group stage. He played the full 90 minutes, but Basel were defeated 1–0 by Sporting CP.
Following days of speculation about his future, Basel announced, on 30 January 2009, that Morganella had left the club. During his time with the club, Morganella played a total of 36 games for Basel's first team, but without scoring a goal. Six of these games were in the Swiss Super League, one in the Swiss Cup, two in the UEFA competitions (Champions League and UEFA Cup) and 27 were friendly games.
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