Salvatore Foti (born 8 August 1988) is an Italian

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coach and former professional player. He is currently assistant coach at

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Club career

Sampdoria

Foti started his professional career with

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, where he was occasionally featured under the guidance of

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. Foti joined the club in mid-2005 after his previous team, Venezia, disbanded because of financial troubles.

Udinese

He was sold to Udinese in summer 2006 in a co-ownership deal for €2 million.UC Sampdoria Report and Accounts on 31 December 2007 At the same time Sampdoria acquired Fabio Quagliarella and Mirko Pieri for €1.5M and €0.5M respectively in co-ownership deal. He was loaned back to Sampdoria for the first half of 2006–07 season, and then to Serie B's Vicenza for the second half in order to give him the opportunity to play more first team football. Foti started the 2007–08 season again with Sampdoria, mostly being featured as a backup player, being later loaned again to a Serie B club, this time

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. In the summer of 2008, he was loaned to Treviso for the entire 2008–09 season.

Return to Sampdoria

Foti returned to Sampdoria in June 2009 for free. Foti then spent seasons at Serie B teams Piacenza and

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. In January 2012 Foti was loaned to again to another Serie B team Brescia; while Juan Antonio joined Sampdoria definitely.

Lecce

In the summer of 2012, he joined Lega Pro Prima Divisione side

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following their relegation from the Serie A and subsequent expulsion from the Serie B. On his debut, he scored the opening goal and created the second for

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in a 2–0 win over San Marino, and scored his second goal a week later in a 3–1 win against Treviso. After scoring again in a 2–2 against Como, he made his first start for the club at home to Virtus Entella, and scored a

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, taking his tally to six goals from just one start and four substitute appearances.

Chiasso

Foti signed for Swiss side Chiasso in the summer of 2014. However, he failed to make any appearances due to a knee injury and after an equally appearance-less loan spell at Balerna, a lower division club, he retired in January 2016.

International career

Foti played all five matches of

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. He also played seven friendlies for U17 team and twice in

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Coaching career

In July 2016 he became part of

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's coaching staff at

and later at Milan. In January 2022, he was unveiled as the new assistant coach to

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. Foti has taken charge of Roma's league matches on five occasions due to touch-line bans served by Mourinho and remains undefeated. In the 2021–22 season, he was the head coach against Atalanta and Spezia, with both games ending 1-0 to Roma. In the 2022–23 season, he oversaw Roma's 2-1 away win over Internazionale, their 1-0 home win against

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and their 2-2 draw against AC Milan at the San Siro.

References

External links

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FIGC archive
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