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.
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