youthclubs years youthyears clubs birth_place nationalteam position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
fc deitingen fc grenchen until 1970 1968-1979 1984-1986 until 1970 1968-1979 fc deitingen fc grenchen fc grenchen switzerland switzerland defender 1 1977 19 february 1954 jean-pierre maradan
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jean-pierre maradan

jean-pierre maradan -lrb- born 19 february 1954 -rrb- is a former swiss football player who played as a defender during the 1970s and 1980s .
maradan was brought up in deitingen in the canton of solothurn and started his football with the youth teams of the local football club .
he transferred to fc grenchen in 1970 , played for their youth team interregional and their first team nationalliga b .
the team won the uhrencup 1971 .
they also won promotion to the nationalliga a in 1971 , but were relegated again at the end of the season 1972 -- 73 .
in the summer of 1976 maradan transferred to fc basel , with coach helmut benthaus , back into the nationalliga a. despite the team already having a number of especially good players -lrb- mundschin , stohler , geisser , maissen , ramseier , muhmenthaler and fischli -rrb- the right footed maradan quickly became a key player .
with basel he won the swiss championship twice and played in the swiss cup final 1982 , but they were defeated 1:0 by fc sion .
he was coppa delle alpi winner once and four times winner of the uhrencup .
in the uhrencup final 1983 he scored the only goal of the game from the penalty spot .
following his successful time in basel , maradan returned to his family in grenchen .
he played for fc grenchen for another two years before he retired .
with the team he won the uhrencup again in 1985 .
