GIORGIO CHIELLINI: "One day after drawing 0-0 with Milan at San Siro, we were all happy in the locker room because that Milan team was very strong and we were a new team, still forming.
Del Piero saw us and started kicking everything in sight. We began to look at him strangely, and Buffon told us to leave him alone. After we had showered, Alex called us and said, 'All this happiness irritates me. We cannot be happy with a draw. We need to have a better mentality; a draw for Juventus is a defeat. Get that into your head.'
That was the day I understood what it meant to play for Juventus."
Sir Alex Ferguson on Alessandro Del Piero: "After a game against Juventus, Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville asked me to do everything possible to sign Del Piero for United because he had destroyed our whole defence. So I contacted him, but he refused to listen to my proposal.
In 2006, when Italy won the World Cup and the match-fixing affair in Serie A came to light, I contacted him again, knowing that Real Madrid wanted him too. I was sure he would end up playing for us or for Real this time, so I said to him: ‘Alessandro, after so many years, I still want you. Don't go to Madrid, now is the time to come here to England. You will be the star of our team.’.
He just laughed and replied: ‘Mister, I believe we already had this conversation several years ago. I respect you a lot, but Juventus have problems at the moment (relegated to Serie B and I can't to be a coward now’.
He preferred to stay at Juve to bring the club back to Serie A rather than sign for United.”
Things that scare me:
• Employment
• Unemployment
• Getting married
• Never getting married
• Having kids
• Never having kids
• Falling in love
• Never falling in love
• Living
• Dying
This guy has an INCREDIBLE COLLECTION of Juventus shirts and memorabilia!!! 🤯🤯
400 shirt, 150 pairs of boots, ultra-rare pieces. 🤩
Honestly, RESPECT. 👏
- no Giannis
- no Ja Morant
- only East team to not make a move
- Herro gets saved again
- Terry Rozier still on my team
- Spo still hates Ware
- franchise is ran by two 80 year olds
I’m just tired of all the lies and false hope.
🚨🗣 Kaka: “I did everything I could to save my marriage, but there's something I learned: you can't force someone to stay with you if they've already decided to leave.
“In 2015, my wife told me she didn't want to be married anymore. I clung to the idea of fighting, of showing her we could get back what we had. I read a book that proposed a 40-day challenge to win back your partner; I did it twice. Gifts, letters, unexpected surprises… but in the end, she just kept repeating, 'I don't want it anymore.'
“It was a brutal blow. As a Christian, divorce wasn't in my plans. The Bible says marriage is forever, but what do you do when the other person no longer wants to continue? I fought until the end, until I understood something key: love can't be forced. Love is a daily choice. And if someone stops choosing you, you have to learn to let go.”