Il Capitano Alessandro Del Piero (145 Viewers)

[Elvin]

People are smart, crowds are stupid.

 

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[Christina]

FIFA U-17 World Championship 1991 Rising Star
Bravo award for Europe’s most promising youngster in 1996
FIFA Young Player of the Year award 1995
U-21 European Footballer of the Year
Twice chosen 4th for the Ballon D'or (1995, 1996)
World Soccer Football Player of the Year runner up award 1995
1994-1995 "Onze Mondial" World All-Stars Squad
MVP of the Intercontinental Final Award 96
MVP of Supercoppe Italiane
Chosen as Best Forward in the European Sports Magazines All-Stars Squads (1996, 1997, 1998 and in 2003)
Gazzetta dello Sport Rosa d'oro
Gazetta dello Sport Azzurri del Secolo
Best Italian Player Award 1998 (Oscar del Calcio)
Best Overall Player Award 1998
UCL Top Scorer 1997
UCL Top Scorer 10 goals in 10 matches 1998
Most Popular Italian Player Award
Sporting Personality of the Year Award
Chosen for All Stars Team for Pre Sydney-Olympics Celebration Match 1999
Selected by voters 8 times between 1992 to 2001 (3rd highest in Consistency Ranking table) in Rec.sport.soccer Player of the Year Award
Included in World Soccer's 100 greatest football players of the 20th century list
Most Charismatic Striker in Italy 2001 Football Awards
UEFA Champions League 10 Years Jubilee Poll Best Attacker
Footbalitalia greatest players in Serie A in the 90's list
Top 5 Strikers in the World CL 2003
2002-2003 Soccer Digest World All-Stars Squad
Datasport's Top Voted Ranked Forward in Italy 2002, 2003
Rai Sport Voted Best Player 2002, 2003
Included in the 50 Best Ever Players in UEFA Jubilee Poll
Included in Pele's 100 best players (still alive) of all-time as part of FIFA's Centennial commemorations
Guest of Honour MTV Europe Music Awards Rome 2004
Associazione Soomaaliya Special Award for Fairness 2005
Chosen for Best XI in Europe for Tsunami Victims Match 2005
Best Goal Scorer of Juventus of All Times Special Trophy 2006
Prisco award for contribution to the up-keeping of moral sporting values 2006
San Siro Gentleman 2006 Serie A TIM
Coppa d'Argento' Premio Speciale Gentleman 2006 (highest prize for sport awarded by the Presidency of the Italian Republic).
Goal.com Best Player in Serie A 2006
Special trophy 500th appearance (3rd most capped of all times) 2007
“Telegatti 2007: Gran Premio dello Spettacolo” –Sportsman of the Year

That's a lot of awards.

 

[Seven]

Wow, I just read that extract of his autobiography and that's a very hard attack on Capello. He's not really saying what's so bad about Capello, but the way the argument is built up is quite nice. His ghostwriter really performed well there. It's quite nice to blast Capello by saying what you would all leave behind to get away from him .

 

[Daria_Uruguay]

Wow, I just read that extract of his autobiography and that's a very hard attack on Capello. He's not really saying what's so bad about Capello, but the way the argument is built up is quite nice. His ghostwriter really performed well there. It's quite nice to blast Capello by saying what you would all leave behind to get away from him .

Well is not only alex that has had that kind of talk about capello.
Last week I saw Gigi Buffon in a long interview in Rai and he said mostly the same.

 

[isha00]

Wow, I just read that extract of his autobiography and that's a very hard attack on Capello. He's not really saying what's so bad about Capello, but the way the argument is built up is quite nice. His ghostwriter really performed well there. It's quite nice to blast Capello by saying what you would all leave behind to get away from him .

It makes you also once again notice what a "strange" football player Ale really is.

He makes analogies between his situation and the one of Achilles, Agamemnon and the Achaeans. I think only Pessotto could have done better

99% of the other players, if asked "What about the Iliad?", would have answered "Huh? Se magna*?"


*Is it something to eat? :wink:

 

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[Turk_Bianconero]

Del Piero deserved a golden ball,but pathetic joga bonito clown lovers dont consider this

I wanted at least 1 golden ball in Del Piero's career

 

[mnementh]

That's a lot of awards.

I collected all I could found.

 

[Il Re]

Del Piero deserved a golden ball,but pathetic joga bonito clown lovers dont consider this

I wanted at least 1 golden ball in Del Piero's career

its true, the problem for ale was that when he was at his best, so was zidane and ronaldo, had that not been the case he surely would have won it in 98, and had he had a good world cup in 98 im sure he would have, thats what let him down

 

[Elvin]

Maradona never won a Golden Ball. Not a big deal. I'm sure that if asked Ronaldo would trade his Golden Ball to a CL win, anyday of the week.

 

[K0STA]

Maradona never won a Golden Ball. Not a big deal. I'm sure that if asked Ronaldo would trade his Golden Ball to a CL win, anyday of the week.

 

[Daria_Uruguay]

Del Piero deserved a golden ball,but pathetic joga bonito clown lovers dont consider this

I agree with that line.
joga bonito lovers are pathetic and clown

if you wanna have fun with us the jogafeio lovers you must visit this site http://jogafeio.blogspot.com

 

[.zero]

its true, the problem for ale was that when he was at his best, so was zidane and ronaldo, had that not been the case he surely would have won it in 98, and had he had a good world cup in 98 im sure he would have, thats what let him down

still considered the golden years of talent in the game in my eyes recalling all the great players at that time battling for glory. man i miss those days, long b4 the zlatans and 'dinos

 

[Daria_Uruguay]

Golden what??

That ball that a french magazine gives every year to someone like Mathias sammer or shevchenko doesnt mean anything....
Specially when you have a carrer like alex has. Come on

 

[Marc]

The Golden Ball award was never a failure, it goes to the most consistant player of the season.

Del Piero deserved it in 1998.

 

[petersmit]

1998 was del pieros year..

 

[ĵџvє_вãвγ]

The Golden Ball award was never a failure, it goes to the most consistant player of the season.

Del Piero deserved it in 1998.

..***..

 

[Daria_Uruguay]

The Golden Ball award was never a failure, it goes to the most consistant player of the season.

Del Piero deserved it in 1998.

I honestly dont see any consistance in a group of journalists given an award to whoever player they choose. It is totally personal. And the fact neither maradona- the best player ever existed- nor alex has won it show it.

The point is who cares about a magazine award when you have won EVERYTHING.

 

[Marc]

The fact that Maradona is the best player ever is very debatable.

 

[V]

The fact that Maradona is the best player ever is very debatable.

No, not really.