All smiles, the defender greeted his teammates and entrusted the captain’s armband to Argentinian striker Paulo Dybala, another player to bid farewell to the Turin tifosi on Monday evening before leaving at the end of the season.
He then made a lap of honor waving to the fans as the game continued.
The European champion with 116 caps, who will bid farewell to the Italian national team on June 1 during the match once morest Argentina in London, announced on Wednesday his departure from Juve, where he has been playing since 2005 and with whom he won 19 trophies.
He has not yet decided between definitively stopping football or embarking at the age of 37 on an ultimate adventure, for example in the North American Championship, a hypothesis which would hold the rope according to the Italian press.
“Juve have been everything to me. My youth, the experience, the maturity. The will to win, the joy of triumph, the acceptance of defeat,” Chiellini said in a post on Instagram ahead of the final match at residence.
“From today you will start to miss this team, these colors, this locker room. You have been an example, a guide, a brother, a friend”, wrote to him on the same network his teammate Leonardo Bonucci, who will be the captain next season.