Gion Chande
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gion Fadri Chande | ||
| Date of birth | 3 May 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Thusis, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2005–2008 | FC Thusis/Cazis | ||
| 2008–2010 | Team Graubünden | ||
| 2010–2013 | St. Gallen | ||
| 2013–2016 | Basel | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2018 | Basel U21 | 13 | (0) |
| 2016 | → Vaduz II | 8 | (0) |
| 2017 | → Grasshoppers U21 (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2016–2018 | Wil II | 8 | (0) |
| 2018–2023 | Vaduz | 5 | (0) |
| 2024 | Wil | 2 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2012–2013 | Switzerland U15 | 4 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Switzerland U16 | 4 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Switzerland U17 | 3 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Switzerland U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Switzerland U19 | 1 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | Switzerland U20 | 1 | (0) |
| 2023– | Mozambique | 1 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:49, 1 April 2023 (UTC) | |||
Gion Fadri Chande (born 3 May 1998) is a footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. Born in Switzerland, he plays for the Mozambique national team.
Career
[edit]Chande is a youth product of his local clubs FC Thusis/Cazis and Team Graubünden, before spending time with St. Gallen, and finally joining the youth academy of Basel in 2013 to finish his development.[1] He began his senior career in 2016 on loan to the reserves of Vaduz for the first half of the 2017–17 season, and in 2017 moved to Grasshoppers' reserves for the second half; at both clubs, he was also the third goalkeeper for their main squads.[2] He returned to Basel for the 2017–18 season where he played for their U21s, but managed to appear on their main squad's bench a couple of times in the season due to injuries to other goalkeepers ahead of him.[3]
In the summer of 2018, he moved to Wil where he was again a reserve goalkeeper. He transferred to the Liechtenstein club FC Vaduz in May 2019, and helped the club achieve promotion to the Swiss Super League.[4] In February 2021, he extended his contract with the club for 2 more years.[5] On 19 December 2021, he finally made his senior and professional debut as a late substitute in a 3–2 Swiss Challenge League win over FC Winterthur.[6]
International career
[edit]Chande was born in Switzerland to a Mozambican father and a Swiss mother.[7] He was a youth international for Switzerland, having played all levels up to the Switzerland U20s. He was called up to the senior Mozambique national team for a set of 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches in March 2023.[8] He debuted with Mozambique in a 5–1 loss to Senegal on 24 March 2023.[9]
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]Vaduz
Individual
[edit]- Bündner Verbandssportpreis: 2015[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Gion Fadri Chande leihweise zum FC Vaduz". FC Basel 1893. 25 July 2016. Archived from the original on 31 July 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ (AU), Anonymer Autor (18 November 2020). "Challenge League - Torwart Gion Fadri Chande wechselt vom FC Basel zu GC". Aargauer Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ Kieslich, Christoph (27 October 2017). "Der Klassiker als Amuse-Gueule". TagesWoche (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Vaduz verpflichtet Chande und Gasser". Vaterland online (in German). 10 May 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Kaderupdate beim FC Vaduz :: FC Vaduz". FC Vaduz (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "WIN - VAD - Match". Swiss Football League ORG (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ Meile, Ralf (1 April 2023). ""Ein riesiges Erlebnis" – der Bündner Gion Fadri Chande ist Nati-Goalie von Mosambik". Watson (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ Maputo, Folha de (14 March 2023). "Acesso ao CAN: Gion Chande é novidade dos Mambas para confronto com Senegal". Folha de Maputo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Vom FC Vaduz direkt in die Nati von Mosambik". blue News (in German). 28 March 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Verbandssportpreis für Gion Fadri Chande". Südostschweiz (in German). 5 October 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
External links
[edit]- Gion Chande at Soccerway
- SFL Profile
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Chur
- Mozambican men's footballers
- Mozambique men's international footballers
- Swiss men's footballers
- Switzerland men's youth international footballers
- Mozambican people of Swiss descent
- Swiss people of Mozambican descent
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- FC Basel players
- Grasshopper Club Zurich players
- FC Wil players
- FC Vaduz players
- Swiss Challenge League players
- Mozambican expatriate men's footballers
- Swiss expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein
- Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein
- 21st-century Swiss sportsmen