Gaetano Vasari

Gaetano Vasari

Personal information
Date of birth	9 January 1970
Place of birth	Palermo, Italy
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	Right winger
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1990–1993	Partinicaudace	55	(18)
1993–1994	Trapani	33	(11)
1994–1995	Acireale	36	(4)
1995–1997	Palermo	69	(17)
1997–1999	Cagliari	69	(3)
1999–2002	Sampdoria	76	(13)
2001	→ Lecce (loan)	12	(2)
2002–2003	Cesena	11	(1)
2003–2004	Palermo	25	(1)
2004–2005	Vittoria	32	(1)
2006	Trapani	3	(3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Gaetano "Tanino" Vasari (born 9 January 1970 in Palermo) is an Italian former football midfielder.

Career

Vasari, a native of the Palermo neighbourhood of Borgo Vecchio, started his playing career with Partinicaudace, a team from Partinico playing in the Serie D. He then signed for Serie C1 club Trapani in 1993, showing himself as one of the mainstays of the team which narrowly missed a historical promotion to Serie B. However Vasari had the opportunity to play in the national second-highest division next year, as he was signed by Acireale. From 1995 to 1997 he then played in his native city for Palermo. In 1997 he signed for Cagliari, where he also made his Serie A debut. The experience in Cagliari was followed by three seasons with Sampdoria, staggered by a five-months stay at Lecce. In 2002 he moved to play for Serie C1 club Cesena. In 2003, despite not a brilliant season in a lower division, Vasari proposed himself to Palermo, citing a promise made to his father's deathbed to bring Palermo back to Serie A;^[1] the club then accepted to sign him, with a salary proportional with the caps he would have gained with the first team. Despite not playing often, mainly only as a substitute, Vasari offered his experience to help Palermo to win the league and gain a spot in the Serie A for the first time in 31 years, and also scored the final goal in Palermo's successful Serie B campaign, in the final minutes of a home game against Bari. He then played for newly promoted Sicilian Serie C1 side Vittoria, and retired after a two-months stay at Trapani, after having been signed on March 2006 in a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to save the team from relegation to Eccellenza.

Following his retirement from football, Tanino Vasari became owner of a bakery of which he is also a cashier, located nearby the Stadio Renzo Barbera.^[2]

References

1. (Italian) La Repubblica, Palermo edition
2. (Italian) Il Secolo XIX

External links

• Playing career