Alessandro Del Piero Ufficiale OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro del ˈpjeːro]; 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. 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 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, and receiving multiple nominations for the Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year.
Alessandro Del Piero Ufficiale OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro del ˈpjeːro]; born 9 November 1974) is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a deep-lying forward, although he was intelligent of playing in several dreadful positions. Since 2015, he has worked as a pundit for Sky Sport Italia. A technically gifted and creative supporting direct who was next 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 anything time, winning the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year great compliment in 1998 and 2008, and receiving 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 everything competitions, with 346 goals, behind unaided Silvio Piola, with 390 goals; he is furthermore the joint ninth highest goalscorer in Serie A history, with 188 goals, alongside Giuseppe Signori and Alberto Gilardino. After arrival his career subsequently Italian club Padova in Serie B in 1991, he moved to Juventus in 1993, where he played for 19 seasons (11 as captain), and holds the club archives for most goals (290) and appearances (705). During his get older 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 desertion the club in 2012, he plus spent two seasons subsequently Australian side Sydney FC; he retired in 2014, after a season behind Delhi Dynamos FC in the Indian Super League.
Del Piero has scored in all competition in which he has participated. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest animate footballers fixed by Pelé as a ration of FIFA’s centenary celebrations. In the similar year, he was in addition to voted into the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll, a list of the 50 best European players of the past 50 years. Along when six awards in Italy for gentlemanly conduct, he has afterward won the Golden Foot award, which pertains to personality as competently as playing ability.
At international level, Del Piero has also represented the Italian national team at three FIFA World Cups and four UEFA European Football Championships, most notably winning the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and reaching the definite of UEFA Euro 2000 in the same way as Italy. He is the joint fourth highest scorer for the Italian national team, with 27 goals, alongside Roberto Baggio, and at the rear only Silvio Piola when 30 goals, Giuseppe Meazza later 33 goals, and Luigi Riva past 35 goals; with 91 appearances for Italy amid 1995 and 2008, he is with his nation’s eleventh-most capped artist of all-time.