Giuseppe Galderisi (Salerno, 22 March 1963) is an Italian football coach and former footballer, playing as a striker.
Guest of the program “L’ora della Vecchia Signora” hosted by Alberto Mauro on Radio Bianconera, former Juventus striker Giuseppe Galderisi praised the technical and human qualities of his former teammate and former Juventus captain, Alessandro Del Piero. These are his statements:
“Del Piero is someone I saw growing up. He was a kid who came to train with us, but he was only 14 years old, which means he already deserved to train with a professional team. When he trained with us, he had already the carefreeness of someone who knew how to play football and at the same time the balance of someone who already knew how to express his opinion with a couple of words, even without anyone asking them. We had meetings because the results were not good and there was. they were difficulties, if you asked him he knew how to analyze the issue with balance.
Everyone listened to Galderisi, but if someone else needed to intervene to make sense of the situation to overcome, Alex was one of them.
An anecdote?
When Boniperti called me to ask me what that boy was like, I replied ‘He looks like Johan Cruijff’ precisely because he was elegant and beautiful to watch play. I am very close to him and I am also proud because in his first goal with Ternana I was the one who jumped two men and gave him a ball inside the area.
With extreme ease, Alex crossed that ball, low to the ground, like a true player. Everything he created from then on he created not only with his technical qualities, but also with his human qualities. So we weren’t wrong to say to our coach ‘Mister, look, he’s strong, let me play him closer as it’s convenient for me’. I am proud to have been part of the career of a great champion, we made him grow with good ideals that he already had within himself together with his innate abilities. I love Del Piero’s humility and ambition, that is, the humility to always improve himself and the ambition to get where even he perhaps couldn’t imagine. I’m happy that he showed the whole world what kind of footballer and man he is. In his plays there was the very essence of football, all its beauty and all its concreteness.”