Fabio Rossitto (; born 21 September 1971) is an Italian

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manager and a former player who played as a

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from 1989 to 2007.

Club career

Born in

Aviano Aviano ( fur, Davian; cim, Pleif) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Pordenone at the foot of the Dolomites mountain range in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northern Italy. Aviano is home to the C.R.O. (Oncological Referral Center), a cancer rese ...

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, Rossitto's career saw him play for a number of Italian and one foreign club during his eighteen-year spell as a player. He began his career with

Udinese Udinese Calcio, commonly referred to as Udinese, is a professional Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that currently plays in Serie A. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a fo ...

(1989–1997 and 2002–2004), where he spent a large part of his career, becoming an import part of the side. He later moved to

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 ...

(1997–1999),

Fiorentina ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional football club based in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while the actual club was refounded in August 2002 fo ...

(1999–2002),

Germinal Beerschot Koninklijke Beerschot Antwerpen Club (), simply known as Beerschot AC, was a Belgian football club based in southern Antwerp. Beerschot played in the Belgian Pro League from 1999–2000 (as Germinal Beerschot) until 2012–13, when they were ...

(2004),

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(2005), and Sacilese (2005–07), where he ended his career. During his time with Fiorentina, he won the

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of 2001. Fiorentina paid 15 billion lire to sign Rossitto (€7.75 million) as well as another 5 billion for half of the registration rights of

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. in the same window, Napoli signed

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from Fiorentina.

International career

Rossito represented Italy at Under-21 level on nine occasions and was part of the team that won the

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in France under the management of

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, for the first time in Italy's history. All of his appearances at Under-21 level came in 1994. Rossitto had one appearance for the senior

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, coming on as a substitute in a 2–0 away win over Hungary on 1 June 1996. He was part of Italy's squad at the

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in England.

Managerial career

From January 2013 to the end of the season Rossitto served as head coach of

Pordenone Pordenone (; Venetian and fur, Pordenon) is the main ''comune'' of Pordenone province of northeast Italy in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. The name comes from Latin ''Portus Naonis'', meaning 'port on the Noncello (Latin ''Naon'') River'. ...

in the

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. In the 2013–14 season he was the coach of

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. In November 2014, he agreed a comeback at

, then bottom-placed in the

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. After failing to save the team from relegation, he left Pordenone by the end of the season. In January 2016, he was then hired as new head coach of Lega Pro club

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, leading the club till the end of the season. In April 2017, he agreed to accept an offer to serve as Diego Bortoluzzi's assistant at Serie A strugglers

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till the end of the season. On 15 February 2018, he once again returned to

in the

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 ...

until the end of the season.

Honours

Fiorentina *

: 2000–01

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rossitto, Fabio 1971 births Living people People from the Province of Pordenone Italian footballers Footballers from Friuli Venezia Giulia Association football midfielders Italy under-21 international footballers Italy international footballers Udinese Calcio players S.S.C. Napoli players ACF Fiorentina players Venezia F.C. players Serie A players Serie B players Beerschot A.C. players UEFA Euro 1996 players Belgian Pro League players Italian football managers Italian expatriate footballers Italian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate footballers in Belgium