Alessandro Del Piero

Alessandro Del Piero is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker. Some other positions he played were attacking midfielder and centre forward. Since 2015 he is working as a Sky Sports Italia pundit. Del Piero is a creative supporting forward who was also a free-kick specialist and one of the best Italian player of all time. He also wins the Serie A Italian Footballer Of The Year award in 1998 and 2008

His youth clubs were San Vendemiano and Padova. His first debut as professional was with Padova in 1991. He joined Juventus in 1993 and played 19 seasons and 11 seasons as Juventus Captian. Del Piero is currently the second-highest all-time Italian top scorer in all competitions with 346 goals behind only Silvio Piola with 390 goals. He left Juventus in 2012 and joined Australian side club Sydney FC; he retired after season with Delhi Dynamos FC in the Indian Super League in 2014 where he made 10 appearances and scored 1 goal.

In May 2006 Juventus got relegated to Serie B for the first time in its history. Many key players like Fabio Cannavaro, Emerson, Gianluca Zambrotta, Patrick Vieria, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Lilian Thuram left. Del Piero close to stay close and help the club to gain promotion of. During that season he quoted
" A true gentleman never leaves his lady."
(About the "Old Lady", Juventus, during Calciopoli) . His final season with Juventus was 2011-12 in which he won his sixth Italian Champion and it was his final trophy with The Old Lady, Juventus.

Diego Maradona
" He is different to Zinedine Zidane. He likes to play, he feels it in his soul. Between him and the Frenchman, I choose him."

Raúl
" Del Piero is the best player in the history of Italian football. He is a person for who I do not only have a lot of respect but a lot of affection as well."

Ryan Giggs
"Del Piero is the best Italian footballer."

Gonzalo Higuain
" Del Piero has been an inspiration for me throughout my career."

Del Piero has won 4 times top scorer. One time Footballer Of The Year. One World Cup for his national country Italy. One time Champions League with Juventus in 95/96 season. 6 times Italian Champion with Juventus. One time Italian Cup winner. Four times Italian Super Cup Winner with Juventus. 2 times European under 21 competition with Italy. One time Italienscher Zwetigameister in 06/07 season. One time Intercontinental Cup Winner in 1996 with Juventus. One time UEFA Supercup Winner

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