Gianluca Litteri (born 6 June 1988) is an Italian
footballer
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who plays as a
striker for club
Catania
Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by ...
.
Career
Litteri was signed by Inter in 2006 from
Serie D
The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...
club
Giarre
Giarre ( scn, Giarri) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily. The town is located about southeast of Palermo and around north of Catania.
Geography
Giarre is bounded by the municipalities of Acireale, Mascali ...
, being then loaned out to Slavia Prague during the summer 2008 transfer window. From July 2008 until January 2009
Treviso
Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...
holds half of player's registration rights before bought back by Inter.
In August 2009, he was loaned to
Vicenza
Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan.
Vicenza is a th ...
. In August 2010 he was loaned out to
Salernitana
Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919, commonly referred to as Salernitana, is
an Italian football club based in Salerno, Campania. The original club was founded in 1919 and has been reconstituted three times in the course of its history, most recentl ...
, with an option for his new club to acquire half of the player's rights from Inter.
On 31 January 2019, he signed a 2.5-year contract with
Cosenza
Cosenza (; local dialect: ''Cusenza'', ) is a city in Calabria, Italy. The city centre has a population of approximately 70,000; the urban area counts more than 200,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Province of Cosenza, which has a populati ...
.
On 7 January 2020, he joined
Padova
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
in
Serie C
The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C.
The unification of the Lega Pro ...
on loan with an option to buy.
On 5 October 2020 he moved to
Triestina
Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to as Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Originally founded in 1918, the club has been re-established several times in its history. As of the ...
on a two-year contract.
After two seasons with Triestina, on 20 August 2022 he was unveiled as a new signing of newly-refounded
Catania
Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by ...
for their
Serie D
The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...
campaign.
References
External links
Career profile (from Slavia Prague website, in Czech)
1988 births
Living people
Footballers from Catania
Footballers from Sicily
Italian footballers
Association football forwards
Serie B players
Serie C players
Inter Milan players
L.R. Vicenza players
U.S. Salernitana 1919 players
Ternana Calcio players
Virtus Entella players
Latina Calcio 1932 players
A.S. Cittadella players
Venezia F.C. players
Cosenza Calcio players
Calcio Padova players
U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918 players
Catania S.S.D. players
Czech First League players
SK Slavia Prague players
Italian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in the Czech Republic
Italian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
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