Giacomo Tedesco

Giacomo Tedesco
Personal information
Date of birth	February 1, 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth	Palermo, Italy
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1994–1997	Palermo
1997–2002	Salernitana
2000–2001	→ Napoli (loan)
2003	Cosenza
2003–2007	Reggina
2007–2009	Catania
2009	Bologna
2010–2011	Reggina
2011–2013	Trapani
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 September 2013

Giacomo Tedesco (born February 1, 1976 in Palermo) is a former Italian football (soccer) midfielder.

Club career

Giacomo Tedesco started his professional career with his hometown club U.S. Città di Palermo in 1994. He remained in the Sicilian capital for 3 seasons, making nearly 70 total appearances and scoring 3 goals. In 1997, he moved to Salernitana, where he would go on to make 133 appearances scoring 13 goals between 1997 and 2002. Although he was loaned out to Napoli, for the 2000–2001 season. In six months with the southern Italian club, he played in 14 total games. In 2003, he briefly moved to Cosenza where he scored a single goal in 14 appearances. Later in 2003, he was sold to Serie A side Reggina Calcio, where he would spend a solid 4 years in Calabria, all in Italy's top flight. He scored 5 goals for Reggina in a total of over 120 appearances. In 2007, despite having a successful spell in Calabria, Tedesco transferred to Sicilian side Calcio Catania. Since joining Catania, he has made over 50 appearances scoring 4 goals in just two seasons. Under former coaches, Walter Zenga and Silvio Baldini Tedesco was consistently part of the starting XI and is always a hard working consistent performer on the left wing. On 9 July 2009, Tedesco was very surprisingly sold to Bologna FC who have signed the midfielder from Calcio Catania on a two-year deal. On 14 January 2010, Tedesco was sent back to Reggina in an exchange deal for Antonio Buscè.

Personal

Giacomo Tedesco has two brothers who were also footballers: Giovanni, formerly of Palermo and Perugia among others, and Salvatore, who mostly spent his career in the lower ranks of professional football.

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