Pietro Accardi

Pietro Accardi (born 12 September 1982) is an Italian former professional footballer who works as the sporting director of Empoli. His usual position was at left-back but he could also play at centre-back.

Pietro Accardi

Personal information
Date of birth	(1982-09-12) 12 September 1982 (age 41)
Place of birth	Palermo, Italy
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Left-back
Team information
Current team	Empoli (sporting director)
Youth career
1997–1999	Palermo^[citation needed]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2006	Palermo	70	(0)
1999–2000	→ Marsala (loan)	14	(1)
2006–2012	Sampdoria	96	(1)
2011	→ Brescia (loan)	8	(1)
2012	Brescia	1	(0)
2012–2014	Empoli	18	(0)
Total		207	(3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Palermo

Born in Palermo, Sicily, Accardi started his senior career with Serie C1 side Marsala. In 2000, he left for Franco Sensi's Palermo and played two seasons in its youth teams. In although Maurizio Zamparini took over the club in 2002 and bought several players from Venezia his previously own, Accardi secured a place in starting line-up at the start of 2002–03 Serie B season and won promotion to Serie A in 2004.

He also received several call-up from Italy U21 Serie B team for training sessions from 2002 to 2004. He was pulled out from squad by injury before the match against Belgium U21.^[1]

In 2004–05 Serie A season, the club signed Fabio Grosso and Accardi worked as the understudy of Grosso.

Sampdoria

In 2006–07 Serie A season, Palermo sold both Grosso and Accardi.^[2] Accardi (€2 million), along with midfielder Massimo Bonanni (50% for €2 million) and centre-back Christian Terlizzi (50% for €1.5 million) moved to Sampdoria, which as the piece-weight to sign midfielder Aimo Diana (€5 million) and left-back Marco Pisano (€4 million).^[3]

Accardi immediately became one of the starting XI for the Genoa based club. He was injured in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup 2nd qualifying round.^[4] whin ruled him out until November.^[5]

In the 2009–10 Serie A season he lost his place in starting line-up to Reto Ziegler.

After the club's relegation to Serie B and the departure of Ziegler, he re-took the starting place.

Empoli

On 22 September 2012, he joined Empoli until summer 2013.^[6]

Post-playing career

In 2014, Accardi was appointed as the team manager of Empoli.^[7] Two years later, he was promoted as the club's new sporting director.^[8]

Honours

Palermo

• Serie B: 2003–04

Sampdoria

• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2007^[9]

References

1. (PDF). FIGC Archive (2003–04 season) (in Italian). 29 March 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
2. "Palermo plump for Pisano promise". UEFA. 16 June 2006. Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
3. "Preso Pisano dalla Sampdoria, ceduto Accardi". US Città di Palermo (in Italian). ilpalermocalcio.it. 16 June 2006. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
4. Islamović, Elvir (16 August 2007). "Hajduk feel heel of destiny". UEFA. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
5. "Accardi in campo con la Primavera, Lucchini a parte". UC Sampdoria (in Italian). 28 November 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
6. "UFFICIALE: Empoli, tesserato Pietro Accardi" (in Italian). tuttomercatoweb.com. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
7. . Empoli F.C. 11 June 2014. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016.
8. "Empoli, le novità di Corsi: "Accardi ds e Carli direttore generale"" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. 27 May 2016.
9. Sampdoria won the third round and qualified to UEFA Cup. The overall winner of 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup was Hamburg which had the highest position in UEFA Cup among the third round winner

External links

• Football.it Profile (in Italian)^{[dead link]} (in Italian)^{[dead link]}
• Pietro Accardi at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)
• La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile (2005–06) (in Italian)^{[dead link]}
• La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile (2006–07) (in Italian)^{[dead link]}
• La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile (2007–08) (in Italian)^{[dead link]}
• La Gazzetta dello Sport Profile (in Italian)^{[dead link]}
• Pietro Accardi at ESPN FC