Pantaleo Corvino

Pantaleo Corvino (born 12 December 1949) is an Italian director of football, currently working for Lecce.

He then worked for Scorrano before moving to then Serie C1 side Casarano, thus turning to professional football.

He was sporting director of Lecce from 1998 to 2005, gaining a reputation for scouting and signing new talents such as strikers Javier Chevantón, Valeri Bojinov (whom he discovered at the age of 14 while playing for Pietà Hotspurs), Mirko Vučinić and midfielder Cristian Ledesma.

Corvino said in an interview[2] that Berbatov had already underwent a medical, but when it came to signing the contract, the move collapsed, probably due to another request[2] by the player himself.

At Fiorentina, he most notably signed Zdravko Kuzmanović, Stevan Jovetić, Pablo Daniel Osvaldo, Felipe Melo, Juan Manuel Vargas, Artur Boruc, Luca Toni, Alberto Gilardino, Adrian Mutu and many other players [citation needed].