Alessandro Caparco (39 years old) went through youth training at Juventus, where the legendary Angelo Peruzzi told him, either jokingly or more seriously: “If you want to be a goalkeeper, you have to start smoking.”

Alessandro Caparco during his time as a goalkeeper in Ligue 1Photo: Agerpres

The Italian took the received “advice” seriously and bought the first pack of cigarettes. After performances on the peninsula in Ivrea and Grosseto in 2010, Caparco signed with ASA Târgu Mureș. He also played for Poli Iași, Concordia Chiajna and Dunărea Călărași, before leaving this activity in 2020.

Alessandro Caparco stayed in Romania and is now the goalkeeping coach of Dynamo.

“I am in the first camp of Juventus. No one went there, it was barricaded. We were children, we stayed away, but not because we weren’t allowed, but out of common sense. At that time, they played cards in the camps. You can see he wasn’t without a cigarette in his mouth and a glass of amaretto,” Caparco said.

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