Il Capitano Alessandro Del Piero (186 Viewers)
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- Pleasant?
"Pleasant, yeah"
- Of your 182 goals there is one that is worth more than the others?
"The two I scored in Wembley, but they are not part of them. England-Europe 4-4: two unforgettable goals in the temple of football, in front of the English masters, that found themselves under 3-1 and that would have never reached the draw if, at the very end, the Welsh referee Griffith hadn't give them a penalty "as a present". It was October 21rst '53: for me, the only Italian in the Europe team, it was the most exciting day of my career. I played as a wing, on the right: I scored both goals with the right foot, the first on assist of Vucas, the second on a cross by Zebec".
TBC
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The dinamc of the goals is explained much better in Italian, but I'm not able to translate it properly.
"Pleasant, yeah"
- Of your 182 goals there is one that is worth more than the others?
"The two I scored in Wembley, but they are not part of them. England-Europe 4-4: two unforgettable goals in the temple of football, in front of the English masters, that found themselves under 3-1 and that would have never reached the draw if, at the very end, the Welsh referee Griffith hadn't give them a penalty "as a present". It was October 21rst '53: for me, the only Italian in the Europe team, it was the most exciting day of my career. I played as a wing, on the right: I scored both goals with the right foot, the first on assist of Vucas, the second on a cross by Zebec".
TBC
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The dinamc of the goals is explained much better in Italian, but I'm not able to translate it properly.
- But these two don't count, they're not Juve's. Which is the best of the 182 with the bianconeri?
"The 13 I scored in the derbies. The goals against Torino are always something else. I remember foremostly two goals at the Filadelfia, especially the penalty (Oct, 18th 1953 Torino-Juventus 2-4). Scoring on a penalty at the Filadelfia wasn't something everyone was cabable of: the spectators were very close to the goal, grasping the nets, not more than 10-15 meters from you, screaming anything. An inferno, that brought you shivers. But the satisfaction I had seeing the ball in the net! I shot powerfully under the bar: the keeper, Romano, a very good/nice guy, couldn't do anything. When we went back to the lockerooms, Parola told me: "I've seen many reckless guys, but never like you". I took it as a great compliment."
TBC
"The 13 I scored in the derbies. The goals against Torino are always something else. I remember foremostly two goals at the Filadelfia, especially the penalty (Oct, 18th 1953 Torino-Juventus 2-4). Scoring on a penalty at the Filadelfia wasn't something everyone was cabable of: the spectators were very close to the goal, grasping the nets, not more than 10-15 meters from you, screaming anything. An inferno, that brought you shivers. But the satisfaction I had seeing the ball in the net! I shot powerfully under the bar: the keeper, Romano, a very good/nice guy, couldn't do anything. When we went back to the lockerooms, Parola told me: "I've seen many reckless guys, but never like you". I took it as a great compliment."
TBC
You're welcome Azzurri, I'm glad you like them!
- Excuse me, President, does your memory work excellently also with the goals of Del Piero?
It works. Boniperti doesn't need to ponder. "I put first the one he scored, very young, against Fiorentina. We were losing 2-0, we won 3-2 and the last goal was his (Dec. 4th '94). Wonderful. ... (Too difficult to translate, but I guess you all remember that one, right? :wink: ). I wasn't at Juventus anymore, but that action by Alessandro has remained in my head. So young and already so good.
- Del Piero's greatest quality.
"Two of them: he's a classy player* and a golden boy**"
* means that he a wonderful player.
** means that he is a great guy.
(I could have translated it better, but I liked the words Boniperti used
)
- Excuse me, President, does your memory work excellently also with the goals of Del Piero?
It works. Boniperti doesn't need to ponder. "I put first the one he scored, very young, against Fiorentina. We were losing 2-0, we won 3-2 and the last goal was his (Dec. 4th '94). Wonderful. ... (Too difficult to translate, but I guess you all remember that one, right? :wink: ). I wasn't at Juventus anymore, but that action by Alessandro has remained in my head. So young and already so good.
- Del Piero's greatest quality.
"Two of them: he's a classy player* and a golden boy**"
* means that he a wonderful player.
** means that he is a great guy.
(I could have translated it better, but I liked the words Boniperti used
)
int:Overshadowed? If Alex's surname was Totti yeah, probably. But it's Del Piero, he's Juventino, and so no one will put much effort to celebrate him, I'm afraid. :frown:
It's probably the only thing they agree on :biggrin:
Anyway, last part:
- Good also in accepting the role of a luxury reserve. Half hour of match, often with goal. Not anyone could, or?
"Not anyone and it's a shame. It would have been ideal for me, fun. I would have played till 36 too. I say this to Del Piero with love: "Enjoy that half hour and thank the heavens that you have fun. You enter, score and you can give the best of yourself without tiring for a whole match". Alessandro has to be happy and the other players too: a team like Juventus, between Serie A and CL, playes a double season and has to interchange all the players of the team. They're 25-26 and they are good. Turnover is a great thing, too bad it didn't exist when I played".
So Capello is good at using his players?
"Very good, and it's not like we discover it today. He has excellent forwards and he's right in interchanging them: Ibrahimovic, Trezeguet, Del Piero, Mutu, even Zalayeta: whatever you choose, you choose well."
END
It's probably the only thing they agree on :biggrin:
Anyway, last part:
- Good also in accepting the role of a luxury reserve. Half hour of match, often with goal. Not anyone could, or?
"Not anyone and it's a shame. It would have been ideal for me, fun. I would have played till 36 too. I say this to Del Piero with love: "Enjoy that half hour and thank the heavens that you have fun. You enter, score and you can give the best of yourself without tiring for a whole match". Alessandro has to be happy and the other players too: a team like Juventus, between Serie A and CL, playes a double season and has to interchange all the players of the team. They're 25-26 and they are good. Turnover is a great thing, too bad it didn't exist when I played".
So Capello is good at using his players?
"Very good, and it's not like we discover it today. He has excellent forwards and he's right in interchanging them: Ibrahimovic, Trezeguet, Del Piero, Mutu, even Zalayeta: whatever you choose, you choose well."
END
Here's the whole article together.
And the day of the 182th came. The day of the goal that changes a "chart" that had been left unchanged since '61. Boniperti now shares the record with Del Piero, author of 2 goals against Rapid in CL, on the very same field were the presidentissimo made his debut with the NT. And it wasn't a happy debut (9th november '47: Austria-Italy 5-1).. But this is another story. Today's story is of Alessandro, a young boy brought to Turin by Boniperti himself. It was the summer of '93.
- Do you remember, president?
'Of course. Pietro Aggradi, Padova's sport director, that had been one of my teammate at Juve in the second half of the fifties, had talked me highly about him. I went to see some matches, also because I was interested in Di Livio too. Then I made other scouts follow him, Causio included. Del Piero was for sure Juve material. But I had to hurry, because Marino Puggina, Padova's president with a rossonero heart, would have been glad to sell him to Milan. Blitz succeeded, in 24 hours. Then we met in my office in Crimea square. The boy came to sign the contract accompained by Gastone Rizzato, his manager, then I took Alessandro to see the trophies. "Have you seen how many they are? Well, try to win some yourself too. To make Juve even greater. And don't worry about the contract. We'll write the amount of the wage ourselves, don't worry".'
- A very fair meeting.
Boniperti laughs, but doesn't have regrets. "He was a young boy, it was ok like that".
- 12 years later that young boy has dethroned you. How much does it sadden you from 1 to 10?
"What are you talking about? I love/care about Del Piero and it was me that brought him to Juve, but you can't compare the 2 situations. I have scored 182 goals, 178 of them in Serie A, because in the years when I played as a forward the cups had still to be born. Now in one season a player plays two championships: Serie A and the cups. Not only: when I played the deflections were counted as own goals, now they don't exist anymore, because the goal is alway of who has shot.. And my career as a forward ended in '57, with the arrival of Charles and Sivori: I became a wing, I made them score the goals. But I had already had my satisfactions. The day of my "try out" (If you have a better word to say it let me know) I scored 7 goals and my first 100 were scored in 161 matches. When I was 20 I was the top scorer in Serie A before Mazzola, I had scored 27, he 25. I'm talking about Valentino Mazzola, the greatest. What could I have asked more, considering that my dream when I was a child was to dress, at least once, the Juve shirt? I received a lot from football, I had fun, how could I complain? And this record has remained still since '61, after more than 40 years it's time for a change. If it's Del Piero, even better. Want to know the truth? This thing gave me a popularity within the young people that I hadn't before. They knew me as the president of Juventus, but not as a player, as a scorer. Now, at 77, I'm once again on the front line, incredible".
- Pleasant?
"Pleasant, yeah"
- Of your 182 goals there is one that is worth more than the others?
"The two I scored in Wembley, but they are not part of them. England-Europe 4-4: two unforgettable goals in the temple of football, in front of the English masters, that found themselves under 3-1 and that would have never reached the draw if, at the very end, the Welsh referee Griffith hadn't give them a penalty "as a present". It was October 21rst '53: for me, the only Italian in the Europe team, it was the most exciting day of my career. I played as a wing, on the right: I scored both goals with the right foot, the first on assist of Vucas, the second on a cross by Zebec".
- But these two don't count, they're not Juve's. Which is the best of the 182 with the bianconeri?
"The 13 I scored in the derbies. The goals against Torino are always something else. I remember foremostly two goals at the Filadelfia, especially the penalty (Oct, 18th 1953 Torino-Juventus 2-4). Scoring on a penalty at the Filadelfia wasn't something everyone was cabable of: the spectators were very close to the goal, grasping the nets, not more than 10-15 meters from you, screaming anything. An inferno, that brought you shivers. But the satisfaction I had seeing the ball in the net! I shot powerfully under the bar: the keeper, Romano, a very good/nice guy, couldn't do anything. When we went back to the lockerooms, Parola told me: "I've seen many reckless guys, but never like you". I took it as a great compliment."
- Excuse me, President, does your memory work excellently also with the goals of Del Piero?
It works. Boniperti doesn't need to ponder. "I put first the one he scored, very young, against Fiorentina. We were losing 2-0, we won 3-2 and the last goal was his (Dec. 4th '94). Wonderful. ... (Too difficult to translate, but I guess you all remember that one, right? ). I wasn't at Juventus anymore, but that action by Alessandro has remained in my head. So young and already so good.
- Del Piero's greatest quality.
"Two of them: he's a classy player* and a golden boy**"
- Good also in accepting the role of a luxury reserve. Half hour of match, often with goal. Not anyone could, or?
"Not anyone and it's a shame. It would have been ideal for me, fun. I would have played till 36 too. I say this to Del Piero with love: "Enjoy that half hour and thank the heavens that you have fun. You enter, score and you can give the best of yourself without tiring for a whole match". Alessandro has to be happy and the other players too: a team like Juventus, between Serie A and CL, playes a double season and has to interchange all the players of the team. They're 25-26 and they are good. Turnover is a great thing, too bad it didn't exist when I played".
So Capello is good at using his players?
"Very good, and it's not like we discover it today. He has excellent forwards and he's right in interchanging them: Ibrahimovic, Trezeguet, Del Piero, Mutu, even Zalayeta: whatever you choose, you choose well."
* means that he a wonderful player.
** means that he is a great guy.
And the day of the 182th came. The day of the goal that changes a "chart" that had been left unchanged since '61. Boniperti now shares the record with Del Piero, author of 2 goals against Rapid in CL, on the very same field were the presidentissimo made his debut with the NT. And it wasn't a happy debut (9th november '47: Austria-Italy 5-1).. But this is another story. Today's story is of Alessandro, a young boy brought to Turin by Boniperti himself. It was the summer of '93.
- Do you remember, president?
'Of course. Pietro Aggradi, Padova's sport director, that had been one of my teammate at Juve in the second half of the fifties, had talked me highly about him. I went to see some matches, also because I was interested in Di Livio too. Then I made other scouts follow him, Causio included. Del Piero was for sure Juve material. But I had to hurry, because Marino Puggina, Padova's president with a rossonero heart, would have been glad to sell him to Milan. Blitz succeeded, in 24 hours. Then we met in my office in Crimea square. The boy came to sign the contract accompained by Gastone Rizzato, his manager, then I took Alessandro to see the trophies. "Have you seen how many they are? Well, try to win some yourself too. To make Juve even greater. And don't worry about the contract. We'll write the amount of the wage ourselves, don't worry".'
- A very fair meeting.
Boniperti laughs, but doesn't have regrets. "He was a young boy, it was ok like that".
- 12 years later that young boy has dethroned you. How much does it sadden you from 1 to 10?
"What are you talking about? I love/care about Del Piero and it was me that brought him to Juve, but you can't compare the 2 situations. I have scored 182 goals, 178 of them in Serie A, because in the years when I played as a forward the cups had still to be born. Now in one season a player plays two championships: Serie A and the cups. Not only: when I played the deflections were counted as own goals, now they don't exist anymore, because the goal is alway of who has shot.. And my career as a forward ended in '57, with the arrival of Charles and Sivori: I became a wing, I made them score the goals. But I had already had my satisfactions. The day of my "try out" (If you have a better word to say it let me know) I scored 7 goals and my first 100 were scored in 161 matches. When I was 20 I was the top scorer in Serie A before Mazzola, I had scored 27, he 25. I'm talking about Valentino Mazzola, the greatest. What could I have asked more, considering that my dream when I was a child was to dress, at least once, the Juve shirt? I received a lot from football, I had fun, how could I complain? And this record has remained still since '61, after more than 40 years it's time for a change. If it's Del Piero, even better. Want to know the truth? This thing gave me a popularity within the young people that I hadn't before. They knew me as the president of Juventus, but not as a player, as a scorer. Now, at 77, I'm once again on the front line, incredible".
- Pleasant?
"Pleasant, yeah"
- Of your 182 goals there is one that is worth more than the others?
"The two I scored in Wembley, but they are not part of them. England-Europe 4-4: two unforgettable goals in the temple of football, in front of the English masters, that found themselves under 3-1 and that would have never reached the draw if, at the very end, the Welsh referee Griffith hadn't give them a penalty "as a present". It was October 21rst '53: for me, the only Italian in the Europe team, it was the most exciting day of my career. I played as a wing, on the right: I scored both goals with the right foot, the first on assist of Vucas, the second on a cross by Zebec".
- But these two don't count, they're not Juve's. Which is the best of the 182 with the bianconeri?
"The 13 I scored in the derbies. The goals against Torino are always something else. I remember foremostly two goals at the Filadelfia, especially the penalty (Oct, 18th 1953 Torino-Juventus 2-4). Scoring on a penalty at the Filadelfia wasn't something everyone was cabable of: the spectators were very close to the goal, grasping the nets, not more than 10-15 meters from you, screaming anything. An inferno, that brought you shivers. But the satisfaction I had seeing the ball in the net! I shot powerfully under the bar: the keeper, Romano, a very good/nice guy, couldn't do anything. When we went back to the lockerooms, Parola told me: "I've seen many reckless guys, but never like you". I took it as a great compliment."
- Excuse me, President, does your memory work excellently also with the goals of Del Piero?
It works. Boniperti doesn't need to ponder. "I put first the one he scored, very young, against Fiorentina. We were losing 2-0, we won 3-2 and the last goal was his (Dec. 4th '94). Wonderful. ... (Too difficult to translate, but I guess you all remember that one, right? ). I wasn't at Juventus anymore, but that action by Alessandro has remained in my head. So young and already so good.
- Del Piero's greatest quality.
"Two of them: he's a classy player* and a golden boy**"
- Good also in accepting the role of a luxury reserve. Half hour of match, often with goal. Not anyone could, or?
"Not anyone and it's a shame. It would have been ideal for me, fun. I would have played till 36 too. I say this to Del Piero with love: "Enjoy that half hour and thank the heavens that you have fun. You enter, score and you can give the best of yourself without tiring for a whole match". Alessandro has to be happy and the other players too: a team like Juventus, between Serie A and CL, playes a double season and has to interchange all the players of the team. They're 25-26 and they are good. Turnover is a great thing, too bad it didn't exist when I played".
So Capello is good at using his players?
"Very good, and it's not like we discover it today. He has excellent forwards and he's right in interchanging them: Ibrahimovic, Trezeguet, Del Piero, Mutu, even Zalayeta: whatever you choose, you choose well."
* means that he a wonderful player.
** means that he is a great guy.
:thumbs:
