Il Capitano Alessandro Del Piero (398 Viewers)

[icemaη]

One statement can earn huge brownie points for the management, If Ale wants to stay, there's always a contract waiting. Or something along those lines. The fact that the club doesn't, shows that they are hesitant to give another year to Del Piero. Whatever the reason, the least the club can do is offer another contract and let Del Piero leave on his terms. If Del Piero doesn't want to stay, the fans will respect his decision. But if he is being nudged out, a lot of us will be infuriated. It's all romantic to say that it's best for him to leave on a high and all that, but if his desire is to keep playing, who are we do deny him of that happiness? He has shown time and again, that he will accept any role without complaining about it. He has always been a great influence in the dressing room. His mere presence offers a lot to the club. If nothing, it sells a lot of shirts. He doesn't even have a fat contract. If we can't offer the man who has carried us for 19 years another year, then this club loses a lot of respect. To stay or not is Del Piero's decision, but to offer a contract is the club's responsibility.

 

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[blondu]

this current president has disrespected ale since he came...he won't change now.

 

[Tommy]

Del Piero: 'Wrong blurb!'


Alessandro Del Piero has reassured fans his book does not state he will leave Italy at the end of the season, as the wrong blurb was published.

There was controversy this morning when Amazon.it put the upcoming autobiography on pre-order with a synopsis suggesting it was his final campaign in Serie A.

“After 20 years of an extraordinary career, Alessandro Del Piero leaves Italian football. But he leaves it in his own way,” read the blurb for Giochiamo Ancora (Let’s keep playing), which is released on April 24.
However, Del Piero’s official website released a statement this afternoon confirming a completely different synopsis was sent to all bookstores.
“20 years after his debut in professional football, having won (and lived through) everything with the Juventus shirt and Italian Nazionale jersey, Alessandro Del Piero is going through a turning point in his career.
“He still wants to live life to the full in his final years as a player, but also has the experience to commit a first outline to the pages of a fresh, agile and intense book.
“This is how Del Piero has decided to share what he learned from the world’s most beautiful game, including what guided him through these years: the values he intends to transmit, maybe to those who today dream of wearing that Number 10 jersey.”

 

[Azzurri7]

One statement can earn huge brownie points for the management, If Ale wants to stay, there's always a contract waiting. Or something along those lines. The fact that the club doesn't, shows that they are hesitant to give another year to Del Piero. Whatever the reason, the least the club can do is offer another contract and let Del Piero leave on his terms. If Del Piero doesn't want to stay, the fans will respect his decision. But if he is being nudged out, a lot of us will be infuriated. It's all romantic to say that it's best for him to leave on a high and all that, but if his desire is to keep playing, who are we do deny him of that happiness? He has shown time and again, that he will accept any role without complaining about it. He has always been a great influence in the dressing room. His mere presence offers a lot to the club. If nothing, it sells a lot of shirts. He doesn't even have a fat contract. If we can't offer the man who has carried us for 19 years another year, then this club loses a lot of respect. To stay or not is Del Piero's decision, but to offer a contract is the club's responsibility.

Thank you.

 

[RAMI-N]

Any one knows if his new book will be published in English?!

 

[RAMI-N]

Any one knows if his new book will be published in English?!

Where are the informers?

 

[Badass J Elkann]

Any one knows if his new book will be published in English?!

zlatans book was so i dont see why Ale's wont be. but it will take a while longer to wait for it though.

 

[RAMI-N]

I think he should publish it in English as he has a big base of fans outside of Italy :xfinger:

 

[Badass J Elkann]

I think he should publish it in English as he has a big base of fans outside of Italy :xfinger:

or just buy the italian version and get the app on the smart phone where by whatever foreign word you scan over translate it automatically for you

 

[RAMI-N]

or just buy the italian version and get the app on the smart phone where by whatever foreign word you scan over translate it automatically for you

Which app? and will the translation be accurate or just like Google?

 

[Alen]

zlatans book was so i dont see why Ale's wont be.

I assume that Del Piero's book won't really be provocative to the public and that's why it won't sell as much as Zlatan's thus I doubt it will be published in other languages bar Italian. It's just that the public wants to read more about Balotelli, Zlatan and the likes than about model professionals who don't get into conflicts. Just like, say, an excellently written scientific study about the Byzantine diplomacy in the last decades of the 8th century, written by some eminent scholar from Cambridge, will earn much less interest from the public than a book written in 3 days by some bimbo, titled "The night I had sex with John Terry".

 

[Badass J Elkann]

I assume that Del Piero's book won't really be provocative to the public and that's why it won't sell as much as Zlatan's thus I doubt it will be published in other languages bar Italian. It's just that the public wants to read more about Balotelli, Zlatan and the likes than about model professionals who don't get into conflicts. Just like, say, an excellently written scientific study about the Byzantine diplomacy in the last decades of the 8th century, written by some eminent scholar from Cambridge, will earn much less interest from the public than a book written in 3 days by some bimbo, titled "The night I had sex with John Terry".

would i be a geek for saying the scientific study about byzantine diplomacy sounds appealing did chiumento write that too?

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Which app? and will the translation be accurate or just like Google?

honestly cant remember the name of the app itself, someone showed me on their iphone where it uses the camera on the phone to scan the word as you move the phone along and gives you the direct translation as you scan along

 

[gray]

or just buy the italian version and get the app on the smart phone where by whatever foreign word you scan over translate it automatically for you

Yeah, I'm sure that wouldn't be a total pain in the butt to read!

 

[JuveJay]

You could get it done in 6 months, no problem.

 

[Badass J Elkann]

You could get it done in 6 months, no problem.

by that time the english version might be out

 

[RAMI-N]

Yeah, I'm sure that wouldn't be a total pain in the butt to read!

You could get it done in 6 months, no problem.

by that time the english version might be out

 

[Elvin]

DP's book will be philosophic, where one could learn something valuable, unlike Zlatan's paparazzi bullshit...

 

[Raz]

I assume that Del Piero's book won't really be provocative to the public and that's why it won't sell as much as Zlatan's thus I doubt it will be published in other languages bar Italian. It's just that the public wants to read more about Balotelli, Zlatan and the likes than about model professionals who don't get into conflicts. Just like, say, an excellently written scientific study about the Byzantine diplomacy in the last decades of the 8th century, written by some eminent scholar from Cambridge, will earn much less interest from the public than a book written in 3 days by some bimbo, titled "The night I had sex with John Terry".

True, but Alex has a very big fanbase. And most of them have been fallowing him for a long time now, I think there will be a lot of interested to read the book. I think it will be quite popular book.

 

[Badass J Elkann]

DP's book will be philosophic, where one could learn something valuable, unlike Zlatan's paparazzi bullshit...

or balotelli's which will be a colouring book with pop up pictures and if you order now through amazon comes with free crayola crayons (green/yellow and red)

 

[Elvin]

Who says Zlatan's book was published in English, it was translated by some Milan fans, no?