Alessandro Del Piero

Italian association football player

Alessandro Del Piero was an Italian football legend who played as a second striker for Juventus for 19 seasons, winning numerous titles and becoming the club’s all-time top scorer. He also represented Italy’s national team, winning the 2006 World Cup, and is considered one of the greatest Italian players of all time.

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About the Alessandro Del Piero

Alessandro Del Piero is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker, although he was capable of playing in several offensive positions. Since 2015, he has worked as a pundit for Sky Sport Italia. A technically gifted and creative supporting forward who was also a free-kick specialist, Del Piero won the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year award in 1998 and 2008 and received multiple nominations for the Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year.

A prolific goal-scorer, he is currently the second highest all-time Italian top-scorer in all competitions, with 346 goals, behind only Silvio Piola, with 390 goals; he is also the joint ninth highest goalscorer in Serie A history, with 188 goals, alongside Giuseppe Signori and Alberto Gilardino. After beginning his career with Italian club Padova in Serie B in 1991, he moved to Juventus in 1993, where he played for 19 seasonsand appearances (705). During his time at the club, he won six Serie A titles, the Coppa Italia, four Supercoppa Italiana titles, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup, the UEFA Intertoto Cup, and the Intercontinental Cup. After leaving the club in 2012, he also spent two seasons with Australian side Sydney FC; he retired in 2014, after a season with Delhi Dynamos FC in the Indian Super League.

Del Piero has scored in every competition in which he has participated. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers selected by Pele as a part of FIFA’s centenary celebrations. In the same year, he was also voted into the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll, a list of the 50 best European players of the past 50 years. Along with six awards in Italy for gentlemanly conduct, he has also won the Golden Foot award, which pertains to personality as well as playing ability.

At international level, Del Piero has also represented the Italy national team at three FIFA World Cups and four UEFA European Football Championships, most notably winning the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and reaching the final of UEFA Euro 2000 with Italy. He is the joint fourth highest scorer for the Italy national team, with 27 goals, alongside Roberto Baggio, and behind only Silvio Piola with 30 goals, Giuseppe Meazza with 33 goals, and Luigi Riva with 35 goals; with 91 appearances for Italy between 1995 and 2008, he is also his nation’s eleventh-most capped player of all-time. In his career Del Piero scored 462 goals.

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Alessandro Del Piero was a versatile forward who mainly played as a second striker, but was capable of playing in several offensive positions.

Alessandro Del Piero scored a total of 462 goals in his career, making him the second highest all-time Italian top-scorer in all competitions, behind only Silvio Piola.

During his 19 seasons with Juventus, Alessandro Del Piero won 6 Serie A titles, the Coppa Italia, 4 Supercoppa Italiana titles, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup, the UEFA Intertoto Cup, and the Intercontinental Cup.

Alessandro Del Piero made 91 appearances for the Italy national team between 1995 and 2008, making him his nation’s eleventh-most capped player of all time.

Alessandro Del Piero won the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year award in 1998 and 2008, and was nominated multiple times for the Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. He was also named in the FIFA 100 list of the 125 greatest living footballers and the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll of the 50 best European players of the past 50 years.

After leaving Juventus in 2012, Alessandro Del Piero spent two seasons with Australian side Sydney FC and one season with Delhi Dynamos FC in the Indian Super League before retiring in 2014.

Alessandro Del Piero is the joint ninth highest goalscorer in Serie A history, with 188 goals, alongside Giuseppe Signori and Alberto Gilardino.