Giovanni Tedesco

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 4 September 1994. Successively, Tedesco has also played for Foggia, Salernitana and Perugia, where he stayed for six seasons as a midfielder, 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 settled 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 in 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 allegations of match-fixing. 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. On 8 January 2006, Tedesco played his 500th professional match, a home debut match against Lazio, which the club…

Giovanni Tedesco has two brothers who are also football coaches and former players: Salvatore (formerly of Perugia, Trapani and Lucchese) and Giacomo, who played at the Serie A level with Salernitana, Napoli, Reggina, Catania and Bologna.

Player

Perugia UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2003

Manager

Floriana Maltese FA Trophy: 2016–17 Birkirkara Maltese FA Trophy: 2022–23