All through his unmatched stint at Juventus, Alessandro Del Piero scored a plethora of great freekicks. Maybe his final one towards Lazio wasn’t his most splendid, however, his significance stays unquestioned.
On the time, Juventus have been embroiled in a troublesome Scudetto battle towards Milan and desperately wanted all three factors once they hosted Lazio in April 2012.
Whereas the end result was 1-1, Antonio Conte launched the legendary Italian in seek for a winner. Whereas Andrea Pirlo was principally the designated freekick taker on the time, he determined to go away this one to Del Piero, who handed the Previous Girl a valuable win.
“Pirlo and myself all the time understood each other in a second. Whether or not it’s with Juventus or the nationwide group,” stated Del Piero throughout an interview with Juve’s Twitch Channel by way of ilBianconero.
“We checked out one another and I stated ‘the shot’, he stated ‘certain, go’. A second once you really feel respect between two folks, you don’t say it out of selfishness, you say it since you really feel issues.
“that’s what occurred on that event. Then, Pirlo additionally turned an actor with the referee and the defensive wall.”
The Padova native additionally revealed that Michel Platini was his childhood idol, the identical man that he ended up inheriting his quantity 10 jersey.
“After I was a child there have been no TVs. There have been solely clips that I all the time hated. There wasn’t a lot to have the ability to do with a view to be impressed, aside from following icons,” he stated in response to one other article by ilBianconero.
“As a Juventus fan, Platini used to put on the quantity 10 and so he turned my idol, my level of reference.”
