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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_MorganellaMichel Morganella
Personal information
Date of birth 17 May 1989 (1989-05-17) (age 22)
Place of birth Sierre[1], Switzerland
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Right back / Right midfielder
Club information
Current club Novara
Number 14
Youth career
2005–2006 FC Sion
Senior career*
Years Team Apps†(Gls)â€
2006–2009 FC Basel[1] 8 (0)
2009–2011 Palermo 2 (0)
2010–2011 → Novara (loan) 20 (0)
2011– Novara 11 (0)
National team‡
2007– Switzerland U-21 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 January 2011.
†Appearances (Goals).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 31 January 2011
Michel Morganella (born 17 May 1989) is a Swiss footballer who plays as a defender for Novara, in a co-ownership agreement with Palermo. He is usually nicknamed "Train".
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Football careerBorn to an Italian father and a Swiss mother,[2] Morganella is a product of the FC Basel youth system and plays as a right-back or a wide-right midfielder. He first came in to the Basel team at the end of the 2006–07 season, playing in 3 games that campaign. In the 2007–08 campaign he was given the #4 jersey, later starting being featured into the first team.
Morganella then signed a new three-year contract at Basel, with the club moving quickly to freshen up his expiring deal. This deal was intended to keep him at St. Jakob-Park until 2011.
However, on 30 January 2009, following days of speculation about his future, Palermo officially announced to have signed Morganella from FC Basel on a four-year and a half contract,[3] thus becoming the first Swiss footballer to play for the rosanero.[4]
During his early times at Palermo, Morganella never broke into the first team and he was eventually loaned out to Serie B club Novara on July 2010.[5]
On 31 January 2011 Palermo announced to have sold 50% of Morganella's transfer rights to Novara, as part of a bid involving striker Pablo Andrés González.[6]
He concluded the season with 37 appearances: 31 in the league, 3 in the promotion play–off and 3 in the Coppa Italia. Novara is promoted to Serie A after 55 years of absence.