Luigi Vitale (born 5 October 1987) is an Italian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as a

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, left back, or a left wing back.

Career

A former Napoli youth product, Vitale began his professional career with the

Napoli Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

senior side in 2005, but spent several seasons on loan with other clubs in Italy. On 12 July 2011, he joined

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

from Napoli on a season-long loan. On 4 August 2012, he moved on loan to

Ternana Ternana Calcio, commonly referred to as Ternana, is an Italian football club based in Terni, Umbria. The club was founded in 1925 and refounded in 1993. In its history, Ternana has twice played in Serie A (in the 1972–73 and 1974–75 seas ...

. In July 2016, he joined

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 ...

. On 31 January 2019, he signed a 2.5-year contract with

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in nor ...

. On 31 January 2020, Vitale joined

Spezia La Spezia (, or , ; in the local Spezzino dialect) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy. La Spezia is the second largest cit ...

on loan. On 1 February 2021, he joined

Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the ...

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* 1987 births People from Castellammare di Stabia Footballers from Campania Living people Italian footballers S.S.C. Napoli players S.S. Virtus Lanciano 1924 players U.S. Livorno 1915 players Bologna F.C. 1909 players Ternana Calcio players S.S. Juve Stabia players U.S. Salernitana 1919 players Hellas Verona F.C. players Spezia Calcio players Frosinone Calcio players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Association football forwards Association football defenders {{Italy-footy-defender-1980s-stub