Antonio De Vitis
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 16 May 1964 | ||
Place of birth | Lecce, Italy | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Piacenza (technical director) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1982–1983 | Napoli | 1 | (0) |
1983–1984 | Campania | 27 | (7) |
1984–1985 | Palermo | 24 | (8) |
1985–1986 | Salernitana | 25 | (16) |
1986–1988 | Taranto | 71 | (28) |
1988–1991 | Udinese | 74 | (20) |
1991–1995 | Piacenza | 120 | (49) |
1995–1999 | Hellas Verona | 107 | (38) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Antonio "Totò" De Vitis (born 16 May 1964) is a retired Italian footballer who played as a striker.[1]
Playing career
[edit]A prolific striker, De Vitis started his career with Napoli, making his Serie A debut with the Campanian club in a home game against Genoa.[2] He successively started a career in the minor leagues of Italian football; in 1988, after winning promotion to the top flight with Udinese, he returned to play at Serie A level.
In 1991, De Vitis signed for newly-promoted Serie B club Piacenza, becoming a star player for the Biancorossi and a major factor in the club's promotion to Serie A in 1993 and the following campaigns in the Italian top flight. He left Piacenza in 1995 to sign for Hellas Verona, playing for the Gialloblu until 1999.
Post-playing career
[edit]On 1 November 2023, De Vitis returned to Piacenza as the club's new technical director, working alongside sporting director Alessio Sestu.[3]
Personal life
[edit]He is the father of professional footballer Alessandro De Vitis.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Antonio De Vitis". weltfussball.de. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ "Correva l'anno 1982: il 12 dicembre Napoli e Genoa pareggiarono segnando dal dischetto" (in Italian). PianetaGenoa1893.net. 7 April 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ "Piacenza - Esonerato Maccarone. Panchina a Stefano Rossini con Totò De Vitis direttore tecnico" (in Italian). SportPiacenza.it. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ "Totò presenta Alessandro: ecco chi è De Vitis" (in Italian). PadovaSport. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Italian men's footballers
- SSC Napoli players
- Palermo FC players
- US Salernitana 1919 players
- Taranto FC 1927 players
- Udinese Calcio players
- Piacenza Calcio 1919 players
- Hellas Verona FC players
- Men's association football forwards
- Serie A players
- Sportspeople from Lecce
- Footballers from the Province of Lecce
- 20th-century Italian sportsmen
- Italian football biography stubs