Denis Scuto

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Denis Scuto
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Scuto in November 2013
Personal information
Date of birth (1964-11-13) 13 November 1964 (age 60)
Place of birth Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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.

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Football career

Club

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]

International

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]

Post-playing career

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]

References

  1. Denis Scuto at WorldFootball.net
  2. Majerus, Jean-Claudel (18 May 2025). "Denis Scuto: Geschicht a Fussball". Radio 100komma7 (in Luxembourgish). Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  3. "Denis Scuto, international football player". EU-football. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  4. "Denis Scuto". Global Citizenship Observatory7. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  5. "Denis Scuto is the Vice-Director of the C²DH". Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. Retrieved 20 July 2020.