Amedeo Tessitori


Amedeo Vittorio Tessitori is an Italian professional basketball player for Virtus Bologna of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A and the Italian National Basketball.

Professional career

Tessitori was raised in the youth team of Virtus Siena Basket, where made his first team debut in the 2010–2011 season playing in the Serie A Dilettanti. In March 2011, he was nominated MVP of the 2010-11 LNP Italian Cup, won by Virtus Siena. In the 2011–12 season, he averaged 13.5 points, 7.6 rebounds and 0.6 assist.
On 17 September 2012, he was signed by Dinamo Sassari, but he was loaned to Fulgor Libertas Forlì for the 2012–13 season, where averaged 7.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 0.3 assist. Tessitori played for Sassari in the 2013–14 season, scoring 4.3 points, with 2 rebounds and 0.3 assists.
In the 2014–15 season, Tessitori was signed by JuveCaserta Basket, where he averaged 3.0 points and 2.1 rebounds.While in the 2015–16 season, he moved to Pallacanestro Cantù, where he scored 2.2 points, 1 rebound and 0.2 assist. In the 2016–17 season, played for Pallacanestro Biella, in Serie A2, where he averaged 11.9 points, 5.9 rebounds and 0.7 assist, becoming one of the most prominent centers of the league. In the following, he even improved his averages, being able to score 14.7 points per games; he also collected 6.8 rebounds and 0.9 assist.
In the 2018–19 season, he moved Universo Treviso Basket, with which he was promoted in Serie A, scoring 12.3 points and collecting 5.3 rebounds, with 1.1 assist. After an excellent 2019–20 season in the Italian Serie A, Tessitori signed a contract with Virtus Bologna on June 5, 2020.

National Team Career

Junior Team

Tessitori played in the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, where he averaged 15.3 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.1 assists.

Senior Team

Tessitori represented the Italian National Basketball team at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in China, where he averaged 6.4 points, 2.4 rebounds and 0.6 assists.