Soccer: Del Piero's daughter joins Juve under-17 team

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 9 - The 15-year-old daughter of Juventus legend Alessandro Del Piero has joined the Under-17 team of the Bianconeri women.
    Dorotea Del Piero learned her soccer in Los Angeles where her father, a 2006 World Cup winner with Italy, lived for several years after retiring after short stints in Sydney and Delhi after his glorious 19-year career at Juve ended in 2012.
    The new Juve women's signing has played for the USA at youth level and lifted a Juventus Academy 'world cup' in 2022.
    Dorotea has a brother, Tobias, who has been playing for Empoli under 18s since August.
    Her arrival in the Juve Under-17s has been hailed by fans on social media with comments like "how wonderful!", "this is great news", and "good blood doesn't lie", an Italian saying meaning that 'blood will out' and that talent usually runs in the family.
    Alessandro Del Piero joined Juve aged 19 from Padova in 1993 and played 513 Italian league games for the Bianconeri until retiring in 2012, scoring 208 league goals for the club and even staying with them, unlike some other stars, when they were relegated to Serie B for the Calciopoli scandal in 2006, the year he figured in the Azzurri's fourth World Cup victory in Germany.
    'Pinturicchio', as Gianni Agnelli nicknamed him, won six scudetti, an Italian Cup, four Italian Super Cups, the 1996 Champions League, a European Super Cup and an Intercontinental Cup with Juve.
    He played 750 games for them in all competitions, scoring 290 goals.
    Many Bianconeri fans are hoping the 49-year-old will return to the club as an executive after he spent the last few years as a pundit. (ANSA).