Claudio Marchisio: A Look Back at His Career with Juventus

He is remembered as one of the best midfielders in Italy, as long as his body held up. With great elegance, speed, and physicality, Claudio Marchisio was for several years one of the best players of Juventus. Despite the last years spent in the infirmary due to various injuries, the bianconeri fans have always loved him. And it was to them that he wanted to give some anecdotes about his past in an interview with Radio Serie A with Rds. Here he revealed his past, from the meaning of the nickname, to when Del Piero found him in the parking lot before training complimenting him, without knowing why. On Juventus and the nickname Claudio began by talking about what Juve left him: "It was an intense life, many successes and many defeats. The company was fundamental in making me understand how we all work together towards a single goal, it's something that managers and coaches already instill in you from the youth sector". Marchisio then continued on his nickname Il Principino: "At 18-19 years old I became the Principino because I was dressed elegantly on the field and Balzaretti gave me this nickname, I never took it off". Del Piero and the nights in the parking lot "My idol was Del Piero and I entered Juventus the year he arrived from Padova. At that time I played in his same role and then moved behind. It was a fortune to be able to play with him, to have him as a teammate. My first goal came on his assist and I remember well that day". Then the former midfielder continued talking about when the former number 10 found him one day in the parking lot before training complimenting him: "It happened a few times to sleep in the parking lot of the sports center, but it only happened when the previous nights there were university parties and so I wouldn't have had time to go home and come back in time for training; at one of those I met my wife. Del Piero when he saw me in the parking lot complimented me for being already there and I never told him the truth". On Conte and Allegri Marchisio then continued on the coaches he had, in particular Conte and Allegri: "With Antonio's arrival, the group really started to form. The earthquake was not with his arrival, but with his way of working. He has a crazy stubbornness, he has a capacity to show that he believes in everything he does. I consider him the best coach I've had because he really made me grow". As the former midfielder claims, Allegri gave him a lot from a football point of view: "He taught me a lot. He saw in me the ability to move autonomously without having his instructions. According to him, I was able to manage and set up the game in total absence of his control". On the end of the career Finally, Marchisio closed by talking about his farewell to Juve: "It ended at the wrong times, but now it's the past. I want to acknowledge Juventus that gave me the opportunity to write together an important part of football history; I know I gave everything".