Pietro Maiellaro

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Pietro Maiellaro
Personal information
Date of birth	September 29, 1963 (1963-09-29) (age 44)
Place of birth	Candela, Italy
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Central midfielder
Club information
Current club	retired
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1980-1981 1981-1982 1982-1983 1983-1984 1984-1985 1985-1987 1987-1991 1991-1992 1992-1993 1993-1994 1994-1995 1995-1996 1996-1997	Lucera Avellino Benevento Avellino Palermo Taranto Bari Fiorentina Venezia Cosenza Palermo UANL_Tigres Benevento	024 0(4) 000 0(0) 017 0(1) 006 0(0) 029 0(2) 057 (10) 119 (26) 025 0(4) 019 0(1) 031 0(7) 030 0(9) 00? 0(?) 024 0(1)
Teams managed
2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007	Lucera Noicattaro Barletta
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2007-10-02. * Appearances (Goals)

Pietro Maiellaro (born September 29, 1963 in Candela, Province of Foggia) is a former Italian football (soccer) player, in the role of midfielder, and now a coach.

Grown to Lucera, after a past spent in various teams, such as Benevento and Avellino) as wella s Palermo and Taranto, he moved to Bari in 1987.

He is best known for his four-year stay at Bari, scoring 26 goals (13 in Serie B and 13 in Serie A) with the biancorossi. Maiellaro earned a reputation as an enormously talented playmaker, displaying exceptional ball skills and scoring outstanding goals. He later moved to ACF Fiorentina, where he was not however able to repeat his early successes.

Afterwards, he played for Varese, Palermo and Cosenza. He also played with UANL Tigres before retiring and dedicating himself to the career of head coach in his hometown club Lucera and then for Noicattaro. He trained Barletta, a leading Serie D team with the goal of promoting to professional Serie C2 league, until 9 January 2007, when he was fired.