18 June 2022
It happened exactly one year ago.
On June 18, 2021, at the age of 92 and a few days before his 93rd birthday, Giampiero Boniperti left us.
That day for us was a moment of emotion, of sadness, but it was also an opportunity to look, once again, at the great, immense story that linked that boy from Barengo, in the province of Novara, to the black and white colors.
A true love story, which lasted a lifetime, in which Giampiero first gave everything as a footballer, an extraordinary career kicking off in 1947, writing pages of history that almost always began with that trio of names, to be pronounced by heart: Boniperti-Charles-Sivores. 179 goals in total, but the numbers are something static, in that they do not tell of all the emotions, embraces and stories.
And the life of Boniperti and that of Juve, from then on, were destined to proceed forever in parallel: in 1971, the second half of this crazy story began. A second half in which Boniperti made the world understand the motto that all Juventini know by heart, and which he himself shouted that night, when our new home, the Allianz Stadium, was inaugurated: "Winning is not important: it's the only thing that matters.”
Because since he became president, Juve simply won everything.
But today, exactly one year after his death, we don't just remember his story, his victories, his triumphs: today we remember one of the men who most of all wrote the Juventus legend, because Juventus was his DNA.
An infinite story: infinite, like him.
