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 built a career on the unglamorous art of defending. Now retired, he moved into the front office, serving as sporting director at Empoli from 2016 to 2024 and then at Sampdoria, 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.

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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 44)

Origin

Palermo, Province of Palermo, Italy

Height

176 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro%20Accardi
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529204

Tags

• Province of Palermo
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.