Alessandro Del Piero, whose photo is shown below, is an Italian professional ex-football player, the legendary striker of Turin Juventus, who also played in other positions. It is considered one of the best players in the Turin club in its history. In the period from 1995 to 2008, he played as part of the national team of Italy, in 2006 became the world champion. Since 2015, she has been working as a football expert on the Sky Sport Italia channel.
Biography, family
Alessandro Del Piero was born on November 9, 1974 in the city of Conegliano, Italy. He was brought up in an ordinary Italian family, Gino's father was an electrician, and Brun's mother worked as an economist. As a child, Alessandro regularly played football with friends in the yard and watched the national championship on television. The guy, like his best friends Nelson and Pierpaolo, dreamed of becoming a professional footballer. However, it happened only with Alessandro.
Del Piero has a brother, Stefano, who played for a short time at the professional level for Sampdoria, until a serious injury put an end to his career. Stefano later worked as an agent of Alessandro.
In his youth, when the younger Del Pierrot went to the Academy of San Vendemiano, he acted as a goalkeeper. Mother was glad that her son was playing in a safe position, where there was the least chance of injury. The fear was justified by the fact that his brother Stefano had already received his. However, later Stefano managed to reassure and convince everyone of the family that Alessandro has great potential in an offensive game. As a result, Del Piero changed his role and began to gradually gain in skill.
Professional career, suggestions from Juventus
In 1991, Alessandro began his football career at the Padova club, where he played at the youth level for several seasons. In the 1991/92 season, he joined the adult team and at the age of seventeen, in March 1992, made his debut against the Messina (Series B). The next season, the young striker began to appear in the team more and more, occasionally marking a beautiful goal.
In 1993, he was spotted by the scouts of Turin Juventus, who offered a professional contract. Del Piero was bought for five billion Italian liras and a salary of 150 million liras per season.
The legendary goals of Del Piero in the composition of Juventus
Alessandro was the master of free kicks and penalty kicks. A total of 19 seasons in the “black and white” striker scored 62 goals from the penalty position. Del Piero is the third best penalty and penalty kicker in Serie A history after Francesco Totti and Robert Baggio. Del Pierro's unique free kick technique was usually characterized by a strong twisted kick, after which the ball quickly flew over the wall. And then, suddenly for the goalkeeper, he sank into the upper corner of the goal. The footballer stated that he worked out the penalty kicks at every training session, and he looked at the performance technique from Michel Platini.
Your attention is presented to the top of the best goals of Del Piero.
Achievements of the legendary Italian striker
Del Piero is a technically gifted and creative footballer who was famous for his goal flair and masterful punch. In “Juventus” he was called the “master of free kicks”, because many goals of Alessandro flew into the opponent’s net after the execution of free kicks. The Italian striker is widely known to the world as one of the most titled football players in Serie A. He is included in the list of the best Italian football players of all time. Del Piero has 346 goals in all Italian tournaments, which is the second result after Silvio Piolo, who has 390 goals. In Serie A, he scored 188 goals and is ranked ninth on the scorer list, along with Giuseppe Signori and Alberto Gilardino.
Club career: 19 seasons in Serie A
After several seasons at Padova, at the start of his professional career, Del Piero joined Juventus in 1993, where he subsequently spent 19 seasons, 11 of which as captain of the team. During this time, the striker spent 705 official matches and scored 290 goals. During his time as part of the “zebras,” the Italian football player Del Piero became the six-time winner of the Scudetto (Italian Championship, Serie A), the six-time winner of the Italian Super Cup, as well as the winner of the Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Intertoto Cup and Intercontinental Cup. Having finished his career in Turin in 2012, he signed a contract with the Australian club Sydney, where he spent two seasons and in 2013 became the best player in the club and the entire championship. The Italian spent the final season of 2014/2015 in his football career at the Delhi Dinamos club in India.
In the ranking of the best football players in Europe and the world
It is also noteworthy in the career of a football player that he managed to score absolutely in every tournament in which he had the honor to play. In 2004, Del Pierrot entered the list of 100 best FIFA players, and was also honored to be on the personal list of the 125 best players in the world according to the legendary Pele. In the same year, Alessandro was ranked among the 50 best European football players over the past 50 years according to the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll, where he took 49th position.
In 2007, Alessandro won the annual Golden Foot Award, which is awarded to football players for high successes and achievements in the team, as well as individually. The peculiarity of this award is that the owner leaves his footprints on the Champions Alley, referred to as Champions Promenade - that is, it is a kind of football Walk of Fame, which is located on the promenade of the Principality of Monaco.
Achievements at the international level: world champion 2006
As part of the national team, Alessandro Del Piero began playing since 1995. Previously performed in all age categories of the team. He represented his team at three world football championships, in one of which (in 2006), Italy became the winner, having defeated France in the penalty shoot-out. Del Piero is also the finalist of the 2000 European Championship, where Italy lost 2-1 to the French.
In the history of the composition of the “people's team” Alessandro is the fourth scorer, dividing the position with Roberto Baggio (27 goals each). The three leaders are Silvio Piola (30), Giuseppe Meazza (33) and Luigi Riva (35). In total, from 1995 to 2008, Del Piero spent 91 matches for the national team. According to this indicator, he takes 10th place in the history of the national team.