Del Piero glad with the over-time

November 11, 2001
TeamTalk

Although many of his Juventus colleagues were given a rest, Alessandro Del Piero is glad to have played in the 2-1 Tim Cup win over Sampdoria. The Italy striker said after the first-leg win in Genoa that he did not mind being called in to do some extra work: "These are nice games to play in. I really enjoyed being on the field tonight."

Del Piero went on to say that he was quite pleased with the performance by the bianconeri in light of the fact that most of the team had hardly ever played together: "I believe we have played very well because we had a lot of first team players missing. The youth team players did pretty well."

Alex, as Del Piero is known, also mentioned Diego Armando Maradona, the retired Argentina and Napoli legend who in his book, has written words of praise for the Juve star stating that he is even better than Zinedine Zidane: "I don't think that there are any words left to really describe Maradona. Therefore the fact that he even thought about me fills me with pride and makes me incredibly happy."

Maradona enjoyed a spectacular farewell game on Saturday in front of 50,000 adoring fans in Boca Juniors' Bombonera stadium where he scored twice from the penalty spot for the Argentina national side in a 6-3 win over a select World XI.
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