Felipe Caicedo

In the 56th minute, the away team went 2–0 up, Basel coach Gross reacted and brought in Caicedo as substitute immediately.

In the 73rd minute Caicedo scored for the team, who were able to equalise another seven minutes later.

During the extra time Basel achieved the third goal to the 3–2 victory to advance to the quarter-finals.

Coming on in the 74th minute he scored the team's second goal just three minutes later and Basel went on to win 4–0 against Lugano.

He scored his first league goal for the team in the home game on 9 November.

Just six minutes later Caicedo scored his team’s first goal and in the 85th Cristiano netted the equaliser.

Another goal worth mentioning, came just three days later, on 12 November in the Swiss Cup away match against lower-classed Baulmes.

Caicedo was substituted on at half-time as Basel were two goals down.

Felipe Salvador Caicedo Corozo (born 5 September 1988) is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a striker.

A full international from 2005 to 2017, Caicedo represented Ecuador at the Copa América in 2007 and 2011, as well as at the 2014 World Cup.

Caicedo is also Ecuador's sixth highest goalscorer of all-time with 22 goals to his name.

Caicedo began his professional career with lower-class Rocafuerte a club based in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

At that time, they played in the third level of professional football in the Ecuadorian regional league.

Caicedo was signed by Swiss Super League side FC Basel during the 2005–06 season for an undisclosed fee while he was just 17 years old.

Due to his age, he was trained in the Basel youth department playing with their U-21 team, apart from a few test matches with the senior team.

Following his coming of age on 5 September 2006, he joined Basel's first team for their 2006–07 season under head coach Christian Gross, who started his eighth season with the club in that position.

In the final, played on 28 May 2007 in the Stadion Wankdorf in Bern, Basel won 1–0 against Luzern and Caicedo, therefore won his first professional title- Caicedo was included in the starting lineup.

That season Caicedo had 27 league appearances, scoring seven goals and he had five cup appearances, scoring twice.

The team ended the league as runners-up.

On 19 July 2007 it was announced that Caicedo had prematurely prolonged his contract with Basel, intending to keep him with the club summer 2010.

Nevertheless, it was also known that the end of the season, Everton and Juventus had shown interest in the player, with Milan even said to have failed with their offer during the summer break.

Basel played in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup.

Winning both matches in the qualification round against SV Mattersburg and both matches in the play-off round against Sarajevo, they team advanced to the group stage, which they ended undefeated in second position, after playing 1–0 at home against Stade Rennes, 0–0 away against Dinamo Zagreb, 1–0 at home against Brann and 1–1 away against Hamburger SV, to continue the knockout stage.

Caicedo had played in all eight of these matches and he had scored three goals.

He had also played in all 18 matches in the first half of the 2007–08 Swiss Super League season, netting four times.

He also played in three of the four matches in the 2007–08 Swiss Cup, but without scoring.

The UEFA published on their internet site on 31 January 2008, that Manchester City had reached an agreement with FC Basel 1893 and had signed the player on a long term deal.

The transfer fee stated on the site of €6.9m was a Swiss transfer fee record for that time.

During his time with the club.

Caicedo played a total of 79 games for Basel scoring a total of 23 goals.

45 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, eight in the Swiss Cup, eight in the UEFA Cup and 18 were friendly games.

He scored 11 goals in the domestic league, two in the cup, three in the European games and the other seven were scored during the test games.

On 31 January 2008, it was announced that Manchester City had secured Caicedo's services on a four-and-a-half-year deal through a £5.2 million transfer fee (€7 million), which would make his sale one of the highest transfers in the history of the Swiss Super League.

His transfer to Manchester City was completed after Caicedo was granted a work permit.

Caicedo was described by his manager as "one of the great South American talents" and was also compared to the Brazilian Adriano.

He made his debut on 10 February 2008, in a 2–1 away win against rivals Manchester United, coming on in the second half.

He ended the season with 10 appearances in the Premier League, all of them coming on as a substitute.

Caicedo scored his first goal for City the following season in a UEFA Cup group stage loss against Racing de Santander.

After playing in seven test games, Caicedo played his domestic league debut for the team on 10 September, at the home game in the St. Jakob-Park as Basel won 2–1 against Zürich, being substituted on in the 82nd minute.

He scored his first professional goal, three weeks later on 1 October, in an away game in the Swiss Cup.