Turin, May 16, 2022 – Giorgio Chiellini is in goodbye with the Juventus. The match against Lazio will be the last match in front of the audience at the Allianz Stadium for the Juventus defender and captain, as well as for Paulo Dybala. An evening full of emotion is therefore to be expected, as it has been in the past for the various Buffon, Barzagli, Del Piero, just to name a few. Former comrades who in these hours have filled the former Fiorentina with messages of affection, who has yet to dissolve his reservations about what he will do after June 30, the day of the expiry of the contract that binds him to Madama: try an experience in America or close your football career?
“Joy, serenity and gratitude”
Meanwhile, Chiellini has decided to write a long post to tell the feelings that are accompanying him before the kick-off of Juve-Lazio. “The day has come. Tonight a whirlwind of emotions will cross me. Juve for me – we read – was everything. My youth, experience, maturity. The desire to win, the joy of triumph, the acceptance of defeat. The thrill of the challenge, the duel on the pitch, my head always bandaged. And then the champions, on and off the green lawn, the coaches, the managers, all the staff … Men who they passed by always leaving me something. Something that I took care to collect, preserve and cherish. Three. My number. But also the sensations that now coexist in my soul. Joy, for an adventure that ended like this, for making every dream come true, imaginable or not, and to remain forever in the history of this great club. Serenity, to choose the right moment to say goodbye, to leave still at a level appropriate to what I have been, to have shared so many values and emotions that no one will be able to never cancel Gratitude, for all Juventus, for the Agnelli family who have adopted me all these years, for my dearest loved ones and for all the people I love, without whom I would not be the person I am now, because they have been an inexhaustible source of support and energy and have always accompanied me on this long journey “.
Still a footballer?
Journey, the one as a player, which could continue, as Chiellini suggests. “So I find myself in front of the most beautiful of sunsets trying to imagine a new dawn. Because the journey does not end. I still don’t know what awaits me next. But it will be another time and another story. This instead is the moment to say goodbye. , and an infinite and profound gratitude. Thank you. Thank you all, the fans and opponents. Thank you for welcoming me, enduring me, supporting me. Thank you for making sense of the meaning of the word dream. Thank you, until the end, thank you. ” .
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