Il Capitano Alessandro Del Piero (231 Viewers)

JuveJay

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I started watching Juve when Moller came here, and i have stayed with Juve because of Del Piero so I'm quite old fan with regards to DP since I have been from almost the beggining of his career with the team.

And I have never said that DP is not a big part or whatever. He is the biggest part of Juve I have seen and will stay for long time as the biggest legend of the club. But suggesting he is equal to club is nonsense. Suggesting retiring #10 is nonsense too. Our club has produced many legends and will produce many more after him, I bet 20 years from now new generation will think their legend is the biggest. The club never retired numbers because it is the institution that makes these players legends, that it gives them a chance to shine and become fan favorite, and to take away the magic #10 imo is inconsiderate and just plain stupid.

I'm really happy that we such people running the club who keep the tradition to not retire jerseys.

Name a stadum, build a statute, construct a fucking theme park, or give one curva to DP, like Scirea has.

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As did the guys before him. Look I'm not saying he's not the greatest. He even is statisticly now. But the thing is that every generation has its own legend which they say is the best. So i'm quite sure after 20 or so years there will be a new legend with the same impact as DP has today, or others had before him. At least I hope Juve will have others legendary players after him.

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It will be too much and would be very disrespectfull to legends that came before him.
 

Elvin

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Del Piero is the greatest ever statistically - true, but there is another thing: he stuck with us in the darkest period in club history and not just stayed with us he united us, lead us out of there, into Serie A where he became Cappocanoniere right away, and later made Europe remember us by that beauty of a FK against CL in our first CL comeback after B, he put us back on the radar... in the mids of anti-Juventussness all over, he shed light into haters' hearts...

With all due (endless) respect to Gai Scirea, but this ^ just puts Ale above everyone else and even if someone one day might surpass him statistically, no one will be able to top that.
 

Raz

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Nov 20, 2005
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Far from. It's only debateable that Del Piero is the biggest legend of the club.

I am only saying that I know many Juventini who witnessed Scirea who says that he is the biggest legend.
It's always like that, childhood hereos are for life. That's why for us, I think, there won't be anyone bigger then DP.
 

Raz

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Nov 20, 2005
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Del Piero is the greatest ever statistically - true, but there is another thing: he stuck with us in the darkest period in club history and not just stayed with us he united us, lead us out of there, into Serie A where he became Cappocanoniere right away, and later made Europe remember us by that beauty of a FK against CL in our first CL comeback after B, he put us back on the radar... in the mids of anti-Juventussness all over, he shed light into haters' hearts...

With all due (endless) respect to Gai Scirea, but this ^ just puts Ale above everyone else and even if someone one day might surpass him statistically, no one will be able to top that.
I agree, he is truly special, even among legends.
 
May 22, 2007
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absolutely not, show me someone from history who would come even close to alex in terms of what he did for juve and what he means for juve
I haven't seen nearly enough of others Juve legends (such as Scirea, Platini, Boniperti) to make that comparison. Del Piero is the biggest since I started watching. But I highlighted the below because Del Piero broke someone else's records, and for young players hoping to join Juve, there are Del Piero's records ready for him to try and break as well.

No player can ever come close to him and his status
 

Elvin

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Nov 25, 2005
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I hate that no one knows the exact/official number of goals he has scored :groan:

according to juworld.net (Gods when it comes to Juve stats) it's 286.
 

Elvin

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Nov 25, 2005
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so even Ale himself says it's 286.
Guys who have 287 in their sigs, may I kindly ask you to fix it please, let's keep the record straight.

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message from the Captain:

I'll never forget last night, but today there's enough space for just one thought: we are Juve, our team is worth to be in the finals ( again), the opportunity earned in a tough match against Milan, the Champion of Italy and the team that leads the championship's ranking.

No target to close the door on, our team has everything what it takes to win, and we'll be fighting for the victory till the last drop of sweat.

Thank you all, guys.

We just can't stop now, there's still too little to celebrate... let's focus on the next one.

There are still ten matches to be played till the end of the championship and the final of Italian Cup at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

I'll give my best to make this season's final to be worth top mark 10, no, even better, 10+!!!

Alessandro
 

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