Bonucci's announcement: 'I'll stop playing next year'

Leonardo Bonucci announced when he will leave football played: "Next year I will stop and I believe an era will close."

The one against Lecce for Leonardo Bonucci was the number 500 presence with the Juventus shirt: a huge number, built over the course of 13 years in the Bianconeri.

With Juve he won a lot and, above all, he realized one of the most important and iconic defensive phases of the last decades, in Italy and beyond: the BBC, with Barzagli and Chiellini.

To celebrate the 500 appearances in the Bianconeri, Juventus has published on You Tube a series of videos that have Bonucci himself as the protagonist, who tells himself, also talking about the future and his upcoming retirement from football.

"When I stop playing next year, I think an era will end, a way of interpreting the Italian defense."

Fixed, therefore, the moment in which he will hang his boots on the nail: "next year", as the defender explains.

"It is a reason for pride to be there among the greats and we also hope that many of the defenders who will grow up, as we have had as idols the various Baresi, Maldini, Nesta and Cannavaro, will take as idols the four of us (Buffon, Bonucci, Barzagli, Chiellini, ed): this means having done

Important words that go to close the circle of 500 appearances with Bonucci's Juventus: with the future already written.