Alessandro Del Piero
Del Piero with Sydney FC in 2014
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| Full name | Alessandro Del Piero | |||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 9 November 1974 | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Conegliano, Italy | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1988 | San Vendemiano | |||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1993 | Padova | |||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | Juventus | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||
| 1991–1993 | Padova | 14 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 1993–2012 | Juventus | 513 | (208) | |||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Sydney FC | 48 | (24) | |||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Delhi Dynamos | 10 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 585 | (234) | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1991 | Italy U17 | 3 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Italy U18 | 14 | (12) | |||||||||||||||
| 1993–1996 | Italy U21 | 12 | (3) | |||||||||||||||
| 1995–2008 | Italy | 91 | (27) | |||||||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:48, 9 December 2014 (UTC). |
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Alessandro "Alex" Del Piero (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro del ˈpjɛːro]) Ufficiale OMRI (born 9 November 1974) is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a deep-lying forward, although he was capable of playing in several offensive positions. In 2015, he worked as a pundit for Sky Sport Italia.
A technically gifted, and creative supporting forward, who was also a free-kick specialist, Del Piero is widely regarded by players, pundits, and managers as one of the greatest players of his generation, and as one of the best Italian players of all time, winning the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year award in 1998 and 2008. 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 F.C. in 1993, where he played for 19 seasons (11 as captain), and holds the club records for most goals (290) and 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 after a season with Delhi Dynamos FC in the Indian Super League, in 2014.
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