Pietro Accardi

Pietro Accardi intrigues me as a defender who lasted in the professional game at only 176 cm, a height that suggests he survived on reading the play and positioning rather than physical dominance. Born in Palermo in 1982, he came up under the Sicilian sun and built a career on the unglamorous art of defending. Now retired, he has likely moved into the front-office or scouting side of the game, where that hard-earned tactical sense pays off. I am consistently drawn to these self-made defensive specialists who win with their heads, and Accardi strikes me as exactly that type.

Name (English)

Pietro Accardi

Name (Japanese)

ピエトロ・アッカルディ

Reading

ぴえとろ・あっかるでぃ

Born

September 12, 1982 (age 43)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

Origin

Palermo, Province of Palermo, Italy

Height

176 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%82%A8%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3

Tags

• Province of Palermo
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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