Del Piero said he would leave Turin next week for his new home and expressed a desire to get on the training ground with his new team.

“I prepared myself with my personal trainer for the last two months but it is different working alone and working with the team,” he told Fox Sports.

“I need to work with the team, I need to know the other players soon and play a game. We all work so hard but maybe I need some time.”

The Juventus all-time top goal scorer spoke glowingly of the country he will call home for at least the next two years.

“From my friends and a lot of people I know, everybody says the same thing – wonderful city, wonderful country, wonderful continent, wonderful everything," he said.

They love Australia and I think, I hope, I’m sure, after this kind of experience, I think I will say the same thing.”

As for swapping the black and white stripes of Juventus for the sky blue of Sydney FC, he added: “I know what is the past, I don’t know what is the future but the present is the more important thing.

“And the present for me is FC Sydney, a new jersey, a new world, a new league, a new everything.”

He even fielded questions about the infamous penalty in Australia’s World Cup match against Italy in 2006 which saw the 10-man Azzurri progress and eventually win the cup.

Australia, he said was a great team...but destiny was with the Italians.

Sydney FC fans may have to wait for the first home game of the season to see whether the supporter’s group The Cove will break with tradition and unfurl a banner welcoming superstar signing.

The club’s fan forum went into meltdown in the hours after news broke that the Juventus great and World Cup winner had snubbed more lucrative offers to join the Sky Blues.

Hundreds of football fanatics logged onto the forum – many of them supporters of other A-League clubs who put aside their rivalries to welcome the football icon to Australia.

Spokesperson for The Cove, Grant Muir, said the Del Piero excitement gripping fans of Sydney FC and the wider football community was palpable.

“The likelihood of it happening seemed very remote even when there were so many rumours flying about.it was very hard to be realistic about it,” Muir said.

“The Sydney FC forum went very close to crashing.”

Muir said The Cove would look to carve out a new and unique relationship with the Italian legend separate to that shown by fans of the Serie A club.

“One of the things we have been talking about is the difference between the way Juventus supporters view Del Piero and the way that we do,” Muir said.

“They’ve had nearly 20 years to build up this fantastic relationship with the guy and they worship him like a god, and for what he’s done for them that’s completely deserved.

“He seems like a fantastic bloke and we’ve all seen him play. We’re incredibly stoked that Del Piero is going to be here but we’re not going to react in the same way.

“We’re Sydney FC supporters. We’re overjoyed that he’s part of the team, but he is exactly that – part of the team.

“We’re not going to turn into the Alessandro Del Piero choir. We’re not going to sing Juventus songs.”

The Cove, known for its elaborate and mega-sized tifos, has only created two player-focused banners in seven seasons of the A-League and that may not be about to change even for the great man himself.

Of the previous player banners, one marked the retirement of much-loved captain Steve Corica and the other showed solidarity with foundation player and current captain, Terry McFlynn, who lost family members in a car accident.

Muir said he had asked the Sydney Tifo Crew whether they were creating a display specifically for the club’s legendary signing.

“Basically they said ‘you’re just going to have to wait until October to find out’,” Muir said. “That’s the way that they work. They don’t come out and say, ‘oh we’re going to do this and we’re going to do that’.

“But I will say this, we’ve only ever done the two player oriented displays and I suspect that that trend is going to continue.

“It’s not for me to say but traditionally our group does displays to support the team and not individuals.”