Giovanni Tedesco

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Giovanni Tedesco
Personal information
Date of birth May 13, 1972 (1972-05-13) (age 36)
Place of birth    Palermo, Italy
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Center midfielder
Club information
Current club Palermo
Number 4
Youth clubs
 ?-1990 Reggina
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1990–1993
1993–1995
1995–1997
1997–1998
1998–2004
2004–2006
2006–		 Reggina
Fiorentina
Foggia
Salernitana
Perugia
Genoa
Palermo		 074 0(6)
047 0(2)
063 0(5)
041 0(3)
152 (24)
077 (10)
057 0(8)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 2008-05-19.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of N/A.
* Appearances (Goals)

Giovanni Tedesco (born May 13, 1972 in Palermo) is an Italian footballer who currently plays for US Palermo of Serie A. He is a centre midfielder. His last name literally translates into "German".

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[edit] Club career

Despite being a native of Palermo, Tedesco was initially refused by the local team, Palermo, because of his thin build, and moved to Reggina. At Reggina, he quickly became a regular in 1990. After three seasons with Reggina (1 in Serie B, 2 in Serie C1), Tedesco moved to Fiorentina in 1993 and helped the team to win the Serie B league. The following season, he then debuted in Serie A in a 2-1 win against Cagliari on September 4, 1994.

Successively, Tedesco has also played for Foggia, Salernitana and Perugia, where he stayed for six seasons and became popular as a valuable midfielder and team leader, especially during his time with Serse Cosmi as manager.

In January 2004, Tedesco was signed by Genoa of Serie B in an attempt to strengthen the team for the end of the season, which was seeing the rossoblu fighting for the promotion to Serie A. However, Tedesco only settle in with the arrival of Serse Cosmi, his former coach at Perugia, for the following season, who replaced Luigi De Canio who had not been able to maintain the team into the top table positions. Genoa eventually won Serie B in 2005. However the club was denied promotion and instead relegated to Serie C1 due to alleged match frauds. After relegation to Serie C1, Tedesco chose to stay and played in Genoa for the first half of the 2005–06 season before accepting an offer from Palermo which he would not have ever refused.

In January 8, 2006, Tedesco played his 500th professional match, a home debut match against Lazio, which the club won 3-1, and he scored the second goal. His contract with Palermo, due to expire on June 2007, was renewed for one more year after the final matchday.[1] He was later stated to have refused offers from several other clubs in order to stay in Palermo and expecting to end his playing career with the rosanero.[2] On April 10, 2008 he agreed terms with Palermo for another one-year extension of his contract with the rosanero.[3]

[edit] Personal life

Giovanni Tedesco has two brothers who are also football players, Salvatore (formerly of Perugia and Lucchese) and Giacomo, who is playing for Reggina.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Tedesco pens new deal", Football Italia, 2007-05-28. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. 
  2. ^ "Tedesco:"Mi sono arrivate tante offerte"", Stadionews.it, 2007-05-31. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. (Italian) 
  3. ^ "Prolungato il contratto di Tedesco", US Città di Palermo, 2008-04-10. Retrieved on 2008-04-10. (Italian) 

[edit] External links

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U.S. Città di Palermo – current squad

1 Agliardi • 3 Capuano • 4 Tedesco • 7 Cavani • 8 Migliaccio • 9 Çani • 10 Miccoli • 11 Amauri • 12 Fontana • 14 Guana • 16 Cassani • 17 Janković • 18 Carbonaro • 20 Caserta • 21 Biava • 22 Di Matteo • 23 Bresciano • 30 Simplício • 42 Balzaretti • 43 Barzagli • 53 Cossentino • 88 Ujkani • -- Nocerino • -- Liverani • -- Giovio • -- Amelia • -- Raggi • -- Túlio de Melo • Coach: Colantuono


Persondata
NAME Tedesco, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tedesco, Giovanni
SHORT DESCRIPTION footballer
DATE OF BIRTH 1972-5-13
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo , Italy
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH