![]() Scuto in November 2013 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 13 November 1964 | ||
Place of birth | Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1981–2002 | Jeunesse Esch | 424 | |
International career | |||
1988–1993 | Luxembourg | 7 | (0) |
* Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Denis Scuto (born 13 November 1964) is a Luxembourgish historian and retired football midfielder.
He was voted Luxembourgish Footballer of the Year for the 1987–88 season. [1] He played a club record 424 league games for Jeunesse Esch, winning 9 league titles and 4 domestic cups with them. [2]
Scuto made his debut for Luxembourg in a September 1988 World Cup qualification match against Switzerland and earned a total of 7 caps (no goals). His final international was another World Cup qualifier, against Iceland in May 1993. [3]
Outside of football he was a secondary school history teacher in Echternach and Esch-sur-Alzette, [4] and from 2003 an academic historian at the University of Luxembourg. He took his PhD in 2009. [5]