hi there, I've been lurking on this forum using a disabled username for quite some time now (before, that account had been inactive for 1 year and after I came back here I could no longer post)
so I'm creating a new one now.
I've only been watching this team since 97/98 season, but so I'm familiar with this man of legend to this day.
however I'm not the cultist type of a person, del piero may be have the status of a saint for some juventini but I don't support that, for me he is still and should be just another player that have great contribution for juve and not untouchable
and frankly I think he (should) already finished in capello era and juve SHOULD HAVE BEEN looking for another hero at that time
why?
1. well he never came back/became his old self
2. it is club/team that make a legend not vice versa
sadly the reality is opposite of it, while I agree that guys like miccoli, giovinco and other 'ADP heirs' may not destined to be like him, but I do not believe that these guys are worthy to simply be cast away for almost nothing and not given proper chance
the truth is, aside from 97/98 and 07/08 (amazing coincidence?), ADP contribution is not like what some juventini make it up, yes he provided many things for the team, but how can you say it cannot be produced by other guys? I'm sure guys like dennis bergkamp (IMO the closest type of a striker to ADP, in fact both created what I precieved as 2 most unique if not the most uncloneable -means not so easy to reproduce it- goals I've ever seen) able to do what ADP did and so is certain other types of players
and then we all know how bad ADP could be on numerous occassions in all these years
so, this fixation of ADP, I'm strongly against it, and guess what, I agree that in a way he has been sort of a cancer for this team for quite many times in all these years
and this juve? well this team has so many problems that it is now laughable for me than pathetic, but what concerns me the most is that we've been even unable to play proper football for quite some time now! on europe it even worse, it has been since capello that the team clearly looks outdated in the matter of playing style, and yet we're still using that approach, some even using history and tradition to justify that.
just for my 2 cents