| Intro | Association footballer |
| Is |
Athlete Football player Association football player |
| From | South Africa |
| Type | Sports |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
27 January 1982 |
| Age | 38 years |
Giovanni Rector (born 27 January 1982) is a South African professional football (soccer) player, who is playing at a Western Province United.
Rector started his career with South African club FC Fortune, before moving abroad to play for Excelsior Mouscron in Belgium. In three years at Mouscron, he played nine league games without scoring any goals. In August 2005, he trained with English club Bolton Wanderers under manager Sam Allardyce, but did not secure himself a contract. He moved back to South Africa to play for Ajax Cape Town. In August 2006, he signed a three-year contract with Brøndby IF in the Danish Superliga championship. Brøndby faced a shortage of strikers at the start of the 2006-07 Superliga season, due to the long-term injuries of Morten Rasmussen and Jean Philippe Peguero. Initially signed as a striker, Rector showed himself more of an attacking midfielder, and saw little playing time in his first half year at Brøndby. He spent the second half of the season in the Brøndby reserve team. Rector played a total nine games and scored one goal for Brøndby, before his contract was terminated in June 2007.[1]
Later that year he returned to South Africa to play at Western Province United.