Legendary Italian fluffs Peace Cup Final winner
Despite sort of devaluing the idea of a ‘Peace’ Cup by contriving to have both a player and manager sent off during the tournament, Aston Villa beat Juventus on penalties to lift the trophy yesterday.
In a shootout played out in front of literally tens of people, both teams put in some suitably pre-season-esque shanks and mishits before Alessandro Del Piero stepped up for Juve’s match winning spotkick (forward to 5:40)
Channelling the spirit of Dimitar Berbatov’s limp-dicked penner against Everton in last year’s FA Cup Semis, the mercurial Italian playmaker took a menacing stuttered run-up before gently stroking the ball into Brad Guzan’s waiting arms. Clearly beyond caring by this point, the Bianconeri went on to lose after a rubbish fifth penalty from Nicola Legrottaglie.
To his credit, after the match Del Piero admirably tried to make out like he actually cared about losing football’s most girly pre-season cup, saying: “It is a sour loss. However, we have to use it in order to grow stronger.”
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3 responses so far
1 MattyDub // Aug 4, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Channelling the spirit of Dimitar Berbatov’s limp-dicked penner against Everton in last year’s FA Cup Semis
Classic, classic line!! Excellent
2 Bokolis // Aug 4, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Del Piero was never one for taking penalties. When his teams have gone to PKs and looking for takers, he has always been nowhere to be found.
3 Roberto // Aug 5, 2009 at 1:57 am
Whoever said Del Piero isn’t one for Penalties is crazy. He has always been first choice pk at Juve in his long storied career. If you knew anything he always asks to be part of the 5 during pk’s, he just likes to choose his spot. He actually chose to go last the other night. Last I recall Alex was one of the final 5 in the 2006 world cup in which Italy won! Hmm i guess he didn’t step up in the grandest stage. He is always the first to ask for club and country to step up for a penalty.