Davide-Jerome Itter (born 5 January 1999) is a German professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as a

right-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

right midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

Regionalliga West The Regionalliga West is a German semi-professional football division administered by the Western German Football Association based in Duisburg. It is one of the five German regional football associations. Being the single flight of the Western ...

club

Wuppertaler SV Wuppertaler SV is a German association football club located in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. The city was founded in 1929 out of the union of a number of smaller towns including Elberfeld, Barmen, Vohwinkel, Cronenberg and Ronsdorf – e ...

Early and personal life

Itter was born in

Gießen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univer ...

. He is the twin brother of fellow professional footballer

Gian-Luca Itter Gian-Luca Itter (born 5 January 1999), commonly known as Luca Itter, is a German professional footballer who plays as a left-back for 2. Bundesliga club Greuther Fürth. Career On 27 May 2019, VfL Wolfsburg announced that Itter would be joini ...

, the son of former amateur player Frank Itter and grandson of Oswald Itter, who played for FC Cleeberg before his career was ended by a meniscus injury, aged 18.

Club career

Itter played youth football for FC Cleeberg,

Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The team is currently playing in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the Germa ...

and

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg () or Wolfsburg, is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of W ...

alongside his twin brother Gian-Luca. He made his senior debut for

VfL Wolfsburg II VfL Wolfsburg II was a German association football team from the city of Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. It is the reserve team of VfL Wolfsburg. The team's greatest success has been two league championships in the tier four Regionalliga Nord in 2013� ...

in 2018 and scored once in 38 appearances for the reserve side across three seasons. in June 2021, he signed for

3. Liga The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...

club

VfL Osnabrück VfL Osnabrück is a German multi-sport club in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It currently fields teams in basketball, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, and tennis but is by far best known for its football section. History Foundation to WW2 The c ...

on a two-year contract.

International career

Itter has represented Germany at under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-20 levels, and was part of their squad for the

2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship The 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the 15th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (34th edition if the Under-16 era is included), the annual European international youth football championship contested by the men's under ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Itter, Davide 1999 births Living people German men's footballers Sportspeople from Giessen Footballers from Giessen (region) Men's association football fullbacks Men's association football wingers Eintracht Frankfurt players VfL Wolfsburg players VfL Wolfsburg II players VfL Osnabrück players Regionalliga players 3. Liga players Germany men's youth international footballers German twins