Il Capitano Alessandro Del Piero (249 Viewers)
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A quick question: Would you recommend me to order a jersey (with my name on it) from www.juvestore.com ?
I have many jerseys with our actual players, so I felt like doing this, it's gonna look so cool, you get to feel how it's like to be a Juve player, kind of 
lol Too late now, I already completed the order int:
PS and remember: Spending money on Juve is like charity!
:groan:
god punished him
Me too.
Elvin, put Juventus player name, If you'll put yours, people will wonder why Elvin isn't playing and when did Secco bought him.
god punished him
Me too.
Elvin, put Juventus player name, If you'll put yours, people will wonder why Elvin isn't playing and when did Secco bought him.
int:PS and remember: Spending money on Juve is like charity!
"It has been a wonderful day for Alessandro with the glorious and storical NBA Team, the Boston Celtics. This year are playing for the team Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce alias "the big three". Boston Celtics went for a european tour before the start of the season. In Rome, they met Alessandro."
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From Channel 4
Deschamps backs 'hungry’ Juve Wednesday 21 November, 2007
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Former Juventus Coach Didier Deschamps has backed the Old Lady as Scudetto challengers and discussed his exit last summer.
The French tactician guided the Old Lady back to Serie A from the Cadetti, but he left Turin on a sour note after relations with the board became untenable.
“Was I angry at leaving? No as I had done what I had to do,” Deschamps told Sky Sport Italia.
“I was disappointed, but that’s normal when you leave somewhere. I was at fault too. I need to become more flexible as I am only young and a little too rigid.”
It seems that there are no hard feelings on the former midfielder’s part as he is impressed with Claudio Ranieri’s team and hopes they can continue to assert themselves.
“Juve are contenders and they have already shown it with the results they have picked up at the start of the season,” he insisted.
“I think that the Bianconeri have a unique mentality – a winning mentality that they have always had.
“You can win games without being the strongest side on paper as a hunger for victory can compensate for tactical and technical weaknesses.
“Juve have quality, but it’s the mindset that can make the difference in tough times.
“For the players and the fans I hope that Juve return to the European stage because this is a club built to win. Everyone there wants to see the return of a victorious Juve.”
Deschamps also paid tribute to former teammate and last season’s star man Alessandro Del Piero.
“Del Piero has given so much to the club,” he said. “Last year he was extraordinary and he hit so many goals. He isn’t 25 any longer, but Del Piero will always be 25 and he’s loved so much despite his criticism.”
The ex-Monaco man concluded the interview by revealing his desire to get back into the game.
“I will return to coaching next season if not before,” he declared.
Deschamps backs 'hungry’ Juve Wednesday 21 November, 2007
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Former Juventus Coach Didier Deschamps has backed the Old Lady as Scudetto challengers and discussed his exit last summer.
The French tactician guided the Old Lady back to Serie A from the Cadetti, but he left Turin on a sour note after relations with the board became untenable.
“Was I angry at leaving? No as I had done what I had to do,” Deschamps told Sky Sport Italia.
“I was disappointed, but that’s normal when you leave somewhere. I was at fault too. I need to become more flexible as I am only young and a little too rigid.”
It seems that there are no hard feelings on the former midfielder’s part as he is impressed with Claudio Ranieri’s team and hopes they can continue to assert themselves.
“Juve are contenders and they have already shown it with the results they have picked up at the start of the season,” he insisted.
“I think that the Bianconeri have a unique mentality – a winning mentality that they have always had.
“You can win games without being the strongest side on paper as a hunger for victory can compensate for tactical and technical weaknesses.
“Juve have quality, but it’s the mindset that can make the difference in tough times.
“For the players and the fans I hope that Juve return to the European stage because this is a club built to win. Everyone there wants to see the return of a victorious Juve.”
Deschamps also paid tribute to former teammate and last season’s star man Alessandro Del Piero.
“Del Piero has given so much to the club,” he said. “Last year he was extraordinary and he hit so many goals. He isn’t 25 any longer, but Del Piero will always be 25 and he’s loved so much despite his criticism.”
The ex-Monaco man concluded the interview by revealing his desire to get back into the game.
“I will return to coaching next season if not before,” he declared.
Kobe Byrant is actually a Milan fan, not a Juve fan
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TOKYO (AFP) - Globe-trotting US basketball coach Joe Bryant insists that his superstar son Kobe should be named the NBA Most Valuable Player this season, despite an unprecedentedly long list of contenders.
The senior Bryant, who has led the Tokyo Apache to the final play-offs this weekend in the inaugural season of Japan's first-ever professional basket league, admits "there are great candidates out there."
He cited last year's winner Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns, Detriot Pistons' Chancey Billups and LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
But he believes Kobe deserves his first MVP honour for scoring a stunning 81 points -- the second most in the NBA's history -- in the Los Angeles Lakers' 122-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors in January.
"As a coach, I would say it this way. If they don't give him the MVP, they've got to create another award that's for the best player of the NBA (National Basketball Association).
"You have to give the title to Kobe. It's a slap in the face if you don't," said the 51-year-old, who played eight seasons in the NBA himself before spending nine more as player and/or coach in Italy, Germany, France and Israel.
Only Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points, for Philadelphia against New York in 1962, now tops the 27-year-old Lakers guard who was also the leading scorer of the 2005-2006 season, averaging 35.4 points per game.
Joe attributed his only son's on-court excellence, often slammed by critics as selfish and detrimental to team work, to "just the will."
"He's like a basketball nerd and he's very serious about the game. He comes early and stays late. A lot of players resent that," he said.
Kobe, named after Japan's famous beef which Joe came across in Philadelphia where he played for the 76ers three decades ago, almost didn't become a basketball player.
Joe revealed his son really wanted to become a football player and loved Juventus when the family lived in Italy for eight years from when he was six.
"We used to go to the playground and, of course, (Kobe) wanted to shoot the basket. But all the kids wanted to play soccer," Joe said. "So he had to play soccer with Italian kids. He used to be a good goalie."
After coaching independent and women's clubs at home, Joe signed last year with one of the six teams in the bj-league which was launched to emulate the success of the 12-year-old football J-League.
"We really don't know how well this league will do," he said. "But I've never lost the focus of the reason why I'm here -- just to make the Japanese players better."
