In collecting his 440th official match in the Juventus shirt against the Olympiacos, Giorgio Chiellini is now among the giants of Bianconeri history. Giorgio has reached Cabrini’s total, and the names he is among will remain Juve legends forever. The list is as follows: Del Piero (705), Buffon (629), Scirea (552), Furino (528), Bettega (482), Zoff (476), Boniperti (459), Salvadore (450) and Causio (447). A rock in the middle of the defense, a team man in the locker room, a player likely in the future to also cover corporate affairs within Juve. Chiellini is all this and even more, as evidenced by his master's degree in business administration.

RENEWAL AND CAPTAIN - There is an indissoluble link between Chiellini and Juventus, who are talking about a contract renewal. The current (3.5 million EUR a year) expires at the end of the season, and the project is to extend until 2020. And in the coming season, the first without Buffon, the role of an 'elder' like Chiellini will be even more important, to connect the gap between the generations in the locker room, and most likely to inherit the captain's band. Bonucci wanted it, but it will have definitively go between Chiello and Marchisio. It’s a symbol they both deserve, by time, belief, militancy, victories, loyalty, and even scars (yesterday, Chiellini required eight points of suture to the head).