Bonus: Interview with Alessandro Del Piero
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this bonus episode of the Tifo Football Podcast, Mike Zimmermann is joined by Alessandro De Piero.
What is the most memorable moment from his Juventus career?
Reliving the World Cup triumph in 2006.
How is he helping to grow Serie A in the United States?
What are the expectations for Italy heading into Euro 2024?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:07.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm John McKenzie, I'm joined as ever by my good friend |
| 0:13.3 | and producer Mike Zimmerman. Mike, hello. Hi, John. Excited for this bonus episode of the TIFO |
| 0:19.2 | football podcast. Yeah, it is a very exciting bonus podcast because you have the opportunity to talk to a very |
| 0:25.6 | special footballer from the past, and I will let you tell the listeners who you spoke to. |
| 0:31.7 | Yeah, John, thanks. |
| 0:32.6 | So I sat down with Juventus legend and World Cup winner for Italy, Alessandro Del Piero. He was actually |
| 0:39.4 | in New York last week. So I was able to sit down and chat with him for about 20 minutes or so, |
| 0:45.2 | kind of reflecting on his club career, that 2006 World Cup run he had with Italy, as well as the |
| 0:52.2 | things he's doing in the New York area to help promote |
| 0:54.7 | Saria to help underserved communities and students enrolled in the street soccer USA program, |
| 1:03.0 | as well as looking ahead towards the Euros and the Copa America and which countries he |
| 1:07.8 | thinks might be dark horses. And it was a very good conversation to have. |
| 1:12.7 | So in your words, I think the best thing to do is toss it right to that conversation. |
| 1:25.8 | Alessandro Del Piero, thank you so much for sitting down with the athletic. |
| 1:28.3 | You're welcome, thank you for him having me. |
| 1:31.3 | Let's start with 19 seasons at UVA, right? |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.3 | Club's leading score, plenty of Scudetti, Champions League trophy. |
| 1:38.3 | Is there one moment in particular that sticks out to you from your club career? |
| 1:42.3 | Well, one moment, it's's uh i want to pick uh the the first |
| 1:48.9 | time that i wear the jersey you know because uh as a uve fan when i was a kid and still now of course |
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