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Alessandro Del Piero
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 Position:
Forward
Hometown: Italy
Team: Juventus Football Club
Del Piero started his professional career in 1991 with Padova of
Italian Serie B. In 1993, he transferred to Juventus,
and has been there ever since. With the Turin club, he won the Serie
A championship six times (1995, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, and 2005),
the Champions League (1996), and the Toyota Cup (1996). His best
season was in 1997-98, when he scored 21 goals in Serie A and finished
top scorer in the UEFA Champions League with 10 goals, which included
a peach of a freekick against Monaco in the semi finals. Del Piero
struggled for form at the beginning of the 1998-99 season, whilst
many doping allegations were wrongly aimed at him. In October he
picked up a serious knee injury in the 2-2 draw with Udinese. This
kept him out of action for the remainder of the season. Juventus
struggled without him and limped home to a lowly 6th place in Serie
A. Many people claim that Del Piero has never fully recovered from
this injury, and therefore never quite fulfilled the potential he
had shown at a very young age.
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