Boniperti died, the farewell of Juve

“It’s the news we never wanted to give you.” Giampiero Boniperti dies and his Juventus says goodbye to the ‘Presidentissimo’ through a long post on the official website. In fact, the bianconeri announce the disappearance of the historic flag by retracing the stages in the career of the former player and president. Read also “Today, June 18, 2021 – we read -, we greet forever Giampiero Boniperti, who died in Turin at the age of 92: he would have turned 93 in a few days, next July 4. The emotion that in this moment all of us are experiencing does not prevent us from thinking strongly about him, about all that the Presidentissimo was and will always be in the life of Juventus. An indelible figure, which from today is handed over to memory, because in the history books football has been over for some time “.” Because when you express a thought – continues the post -, and that thought becomes part of the DNA of the company to which you have dedicated your life, it means that your character has become its identity and way to be. Forever “. In the words of the club, Boniperti” is the champion who helped make the Juventus fans forget the war soon (“with his kindness and his class he took post-war Juventus in his hand, and together with it participated in giving back lights of hope for the ‘future “, wrote Hurrà Juventus in 1966) has a football curriculum that everyone knows”. And he remembers that day “in the spring of 1946, at eighteen years old”, when “he left Barengo (where he was born in 1928) and came to Turin to support the usual audition in Juventus. It was a pioneering football, romantic and carefree “. Then, almost a year later,” at the beginning of March 1947, Boniperti made his debut in the First Team against Milan “while the following year Vittorio Pozzo already dressed him in blue, at Vienna, against Austria “.” He became top scorer in Serie A in 1947/48, barely 20 years old, with 27 goals scored. It was the prelude to his first Scudetto (of five) with the black and white shirt on, the one in 1950, his favorite “, Juventus remembers until the end of his career in 1961,” as Italian Champion, with 179 goals. He was 33 years old, and hung up his boots with a simple ceremony: “Guys, I’ll stop” “. Then the years as president, when” in July 1971 a second Era Boniperti began for Juve “and the last few years” always close to his lady. Perhaps the most touching moment of the stadium’s inauguration was just when, that one. September 8, 2011, he headed to a bench in the center of the field, alongside another Juventus legend, Del Piero, the only one able to score more than him “.” Up there, now, there is another star in the black and white firmament that shines to show us the route: that of Giampiero Boniperti, who spent a life with Juventus, for Juventus, and who have always been able to show them the way. Thanks for everything. Have a good trip, Presidentissimo “, the Juventus farewell.