Giacomo Tedesco
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | January 2, 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Palermo, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1994–1997 | Palermo | 67 | (3) |
| 1997–2002 | Salernitana | 133 | (13) |
| 2000–2001 | → Napoli (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 2003 | Cosenza | 15 | (1) |
| 2003–2007 | Reggina | 121 | (5) |
| 2007–2009 | Catania | 60 | (4) |
| 2009 | Bologna | 8 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Reggina | 39 | (0) |
| 2011–2013 | Trapani | 49 | (3) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 September 2013. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Giacomo Tedesco (born January 2, 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 an 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 transfed 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 brother who were footballers too: Giovanni, formerly of Palermo and Perugia among others, and Salvatore, who mostly spent his career in the lower ranks of professional football.