Ruggiero Rizzitelli
Rizzitelli with Cesena at the end of the eighties
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 2 September 1967 | ||
| Place of birth | Margherita di Savoia, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1984–1988 | Cesena | 62 | (7) |
| 1988–1994 | Roma | 154 | (29) |
| 1994–1996 | Torino | 60 | (30) |
| 1996–1998 | Bayern Munich | 45 | (11) |
| 1998–2000 | Piacenza | 33 | (1) |
| 2000–2001 | Cesena | 14 | (6) |
| Total | 369 | (84) | |
| National team | |||
| 1987–1989 | Italy U21 | 16 | (4) |
| 1988–1991 | Italy | 9 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ruggiero Rizzitelli (Italian pronunciation: [rudˈdʒɛro rittsiˈtɛlli]; born 2 September 1967) is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward.
Due to his goalscoring ability, he was given the nickname "Rizzi-gol" by the fans.
Rizzitelli started his professional career for Serie B team Cesena during the 1984–85 season, making his Serie A debut in the 1987–88 season. He played four seasons with the small side from Emilia-Romagna before joining A.S. Roma in 1988, where he scored a total of 29 goals in six seasons with the giallorossi, winning a Coppa Italia in 1991. In the same year reached the UEFA Cup Final, but his goal was unable to prevent them from losing to Inter Milan. Roma were also subsequently defeated in the 1991 Supercoppa Italiana.
From 1994 to 1996 he then played for Torino, scoring a very impressive 30 goals in 60 appearances with the granata. Despite his good performances, Torino were relegated to Serie B in 1996, and Rizzitelli agreed for a move to German team FC Bayern Munich, then coached by fellow Italian Giovanni Trapattoni. In his second season with Bayern, he seldom appeared as a regular starter due to injury and the emergence of Carsten Jancker, but proved to be a more than useful player on the bench, thanks to his quickness that made him skillful and dangerous on the counter-attack. He scored a total of 11 goals in 45 appearances with the Bavarian team, winning a Bundesliga title in 1997 and a DFB-Pokal (German Cup) in 1998. He returned to Italy in 1998 to join Piacenza where he however failed to impress. Rizzitelli retired in 2001 after a season with Cesena.
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