Alessandro Del Piero insists Juventus aren’t cursed in Champions League finals – “for players there’s no such thing”.
The Bianconeri have won the competition twice, but have also lost six finals, including their last four in a row.
“Curses don’t exist for players, not for anyone who will go onto that pitch,” Del Piero insisted, speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport.
“In Berlin in 2006, all of us were coming off disappointments, finals lost on penalties or in the last minute, but no-one thought about that.
Alessandro Del Piero insists Juventus aren’t cursed in Champions League finals – “for players there’s no such thing”.
The Bianconeri have won the competition twice, but have also lost six finals, including their last four in a row.
“Curses don’t exist for players, not for anyone who will go onto that pitch,” Del Piero insisted, speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport.
“In Berlin in 2006, all of us were coming off disappointments, finals lost on penalties or in the last minute, but no-one thought about that.
“You just think about winning, that it’s your time. And I really hope it will be.”
The Juve legend was then asked if he thinks the current side is stronger than the one which lost to Barcelona in 2015.
“In my opinion they aren’t more or less strong. That Juventus had a midfield on Barcelona’s level which spoke for itself: [Andrea] Pirlo, [Arturo] Vidal, [Claudio] Marchisio, [Paul] Pogba.
“The point is the level of maturity, how aware they are of their strength and how they can use it on the pitch. I think today Juve are more mature and more aware.
“They play a very ‘European’ game, a way of being on the pitch which every player feels is his. In short, they believe.
“As for Real, I don’t think they’re inferior to that Barcelona, they’re a very strong team and for that season it will be hard.
“Three reasons to believe? [Gigi] Buffon, [Giorgio] Chiellini, [Claudio] Marchisio. Three lads, three teammates, three friends.
“Here are the three reasons. They were in Serie B, they have to complete the work. For Juve, for all the fans, for all of us who were there then.
“For me it has a sense of everything, or almost everything.
“You can’t make comparisons between different eras, not in a team which has always had legendary champions.
“But what’s certain is that if Juve win this trophy after the six Scudetti, they’ll have done something legendary and rewritten the history of the club.
“Maybe the main merit of everyone is that they’ve always believed firmly and without doubt in being Juve, in the DNA of this team and this club, in the fact that even in difficult moments Juve was always Juve and would get back there. And that’s what happened.”