Alessandro Del Piero

Biography

Alessandro Del Piero (born November 9, 1974 in Conegliano) is an Italian (Italian: A native or inhabitant of Italy) football (football: Any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal) player. He usually plays as a forward (forward: A position on a basketball team) or between the midfield (midfield: (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse)) and the strikers.

Del Piero started his professional career in 1991 with Padova (Padova: A city in Veneto) of Italian Serie B (Serie B: serie b is the name of the second highest football league in italy....
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Despite a large amount of success on the club level, Del Piero has experienced a lot of inconsistency with the Italian national team (Italian national team: the italy national football team is one of the most successful national football teams, having...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) . Coming into the 1998 World Cup (1998 World Cup: more facts about this subject) with huge expectations, he competed with fan favorite Roberto Baggio (Roberto Baggio: roberto baggio (born february 18, 1967, in caldogno, italy) is an italian...
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