Seven hundred and sixteen professional matches, nine championships, five Italian cups, forty-four goals. And then the national team, with 117 appearances for the senior team, eight goals and a European Championship won against everyone, at Wembley, as captain. This extract from his palmares would be enough to describe the extraordinary career of Giorgio Chiellini who reaches the finish line today.

The former Juve player, in the last two seasons at Los Angeles FC, has decided to say enough to playing football . The official announcement will arrive in days, perhaps hours. For the former national team centre-back, one of the strongest and most feared in the history of Italian football, a future now looms in the management of the Juventus club.

Chiellin, the undisputed protagonist of the Italian campaign at the 2021 European Championships, is the first to withdraw from the Italian expedition.

(Unioneonline/L.Ne.)

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