Del Piero Set To Smash Juve Record
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Juventus icon Alessandro Del Piero admits that he is extremely proud as he is about to break the club’s all time appearance record.
Del Boy has played 550 games for the Old Lady since signing for them in 1993 from Padova. Pinturicchio has come along way since then and he has won many honours during his 15 year reign.
He burst on to the scene and he ended Roberto Baggio’s reign at the club. Baggio at the time was one of the world’s greatest players.
At the moment Gaetano Scirea holds the record with 552 appearances and it seems likely that Del Piero will surpass that figure.
“Reaching Scirea’s record in terms of appearances is something which will make me proud in so many ways,” Del Piero told Sky Sport Italia.
“It’s an important achievement by I hope to enter the hearts of people like he did. I’m different to him but I want to emulate the respect he had in the world of football.
“It’s important at reaching this record but what’s more important is what I did to get here.
“Sometimes the way in which you reach this level is more important than the reaching the final objective, this is what I like most because the records say a lot but so does the way in which you reach those levels.”
Del Piero is perhaps Juve’s all time greatest player right up there with the likes of Scirea, John Charles, Omar Sivori, Zinedine Zidane, Roberto Bettega, Michel Platini, Dino Zoff and Claudio Gentile.