The possibility that it could happen was very striking, because it meant removing from the club’s record books one of the most beloved players in the history of Juventus and putting in his place someone who, despite himself, had become, not only due to his own responsibilities, one of the least appreciated of the last years. But in the end, Alex Sandro will not overtake Pavel Nedved as the foreign player with the most appearances for Juventus: now it is certain after the penultimate Juventus match of the season against Bologna. At -1 from 327 overall appearances with the Juventus shirt of the “Czech Fury”, after not appearing at the Dall’Ara now Alex Sandro can at most match him and join him in the last round of the championship on Saturday against Monza, still a notable achievement , but he can no longer surpass him and lift himself to the top of this special ranking.
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The 33-year-old Brazilian, one of the group’s senators and vice-captain (he wore the armband twice this year), is in his ninth season in Turin where he arrived in 2015 from Porto, winning the Scudetto five times and the Italian Cup five times with Juventus. and the Super Cup twice. But his contract is expiring and there are no plans for a renewal, after the one that started automatically last summer under the previous economic conditions (now out of scale for the club’s current accounts) thanks to the achievement of the pre-established number of seasonal appearances with the management of Massimiliano Allegri. After the 37 matches played a year ago, this year there are currently 17 (15 in Serie A, 2 in the Italian Cup), but in the last two and a half months of the season in nine matches Alex Sandro only played the last 12 minutes of the derby with Torino. Among the current active Juventus players, the only other player in the Top 10 of Juve’s most present foreigners is Wojciech Szczesny at 252, ninth. Seventh, at 278, the current… coach (interim) Paolo Montero.
