Juventus

Juventus (Ofic "Juventus Football Club SpA ', lat. Iuventus, youth, pron. AFI: juvɛntus), known simply by its name, Juventus, or popularly as Juve (AFI: ju ː ve), is a club Italian football based in Turin, capital of the Piedmont region. It was founded on November 1, 1897 under the name "Sport Club Juventus' by a group of local students. Currently involved in the top Italian professional football (known from 1929 Series A), which has spent most of its history with the exception of the 2006-07 season.The origin of the club, from the journalistic point of view, is shrouded in mystery since the late nineteenth century the sport was not sufficiently widespread in the country to justify the interest of the press. In fact, the only document that made reference to the origins of Juventus with sufficient certainty was published in the institutional review December 26, 1915. The club colors are identified by white and black, who used his uniform since 1903. The local club acts as Juventus Stadium, which has a capacity or total capacity for 41,000 spectators and dimensions of 105x68 meters.Historically it is the most successful club in Italy and at the same time one of the most successful and renowned clubs in the world. The club Juventus was the first Italian and Southern European to win the UEFA Cup (season 1976-77), is the fourth and seventh European club in the world with as many official titles won in the international arena, and is also the first club in European football history to win three major competitions organized by the European Union of Football Associations (currently one of only three to do so by the Ajax Amsterdam and Bayern Munich) and the first club in the world and only so far in all competitions to win the world title confederations and interclub.In 2009, she was recognized as the best Italian club of the twentieth century and second at the European level during the same period by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an institution recognized by FIFA. Their traditional rivals are Torino Football Club with which disputes the Turin Derby and Inter Milan, club against which disputes the Derby called Italy. Linked to the Agnelli industrial family since the early 1920, the Turin club took part, as a founding member of the European Club Association (formerly G-14), an international organization which brought together the most important and influential clubs of Europe.

History

Foundation and early years (1897-1930)

Juventus Football Club was founded on November 1, 1897 under the name "Sport Club Juventus' by a group of local students of Liceo Classico Massimo D'Azeglio, who would gather around a bench in a Square station (which is currently in the clubhouse). His first uniform, which he used during his first six years, was comprised of a jacket with scarf pink or black tie and shorts color also negro.19 Under the name of "Foot-Ball Club Juventus' society officially enrolled in the Italian Football Federation on May 11, 1900 and debuted in the third edition of the Federal League, but failed to reach the knockout stage (1-0 defeat against FC Torinese). It was in 1905 during the presidency of the Swiss textile businessman Alfred Dick, the club won the first national championship, before the Genoa F. C. in the decisive match of the championship final group, with twenty-five wins, five draws and four defeats, and seventy-nine goals scored.A year later Alfred Dick was pondering the possibility of equipment abroad, even change the name of the company by Fussballverein Jugend, after several discussions with club members decided to resign the presidency to found (with the support of some players and dissenting shareholders) the Foot-Ball Club Torino. Therefore, the Bianconeri team was left with few players and few financial resources, creating a critical period in the economy of the club that lasted for a long time. On July 24, 1923, the Agnelli family, owners of Fiat Group, Juventus took participation in the first through the figure of Edoardo Agnelli, son of company founder and elected president of the society. In that same season saw the debut of goalkeeper Giampiero Combi, with Virginio Rosetta (who joined the club from the Pro Vercelli Calcio in 1926), Federico Munerati, Aldo Borel, Carlo and Giuseppe Bigatto Grabbi, plus the arrival in the capital Piedmont head coach in the history of the bianconeros, Hungarian Károly Jenő.

The Golden Five Years (1931-1935)

Under the guidance of Italian coach Carlo Carcano who arrived at the club in 1930 with footballers Varglien Mario, Giovanni Varglien, Luis Monti, Luigi Bertolini, Renato Cesarini, Giovanni Ferrari, Raimundo Orsi and Felice Borel, the club managed for five consecutive years conquest of the scudetto. Juventus ended the so-called Golden Five Years with the debut of the young Pietro Rava and Alfredo Foni (who later won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and World Cup Soccer 1938) in the first team this season 1934-35, winning by two points for the third consecutive year, up from Inter Milan. On July 14, 1935, the company bianconera suffered the loss of its chairman Edoardo Agnelli in a plane crash occurred in the city of Genoa.

The Magical Trio (1957-1961)

In 1957, during the presidency of Umberto Agnelli (Gianni's younger brother), arrived at the club Argentine striker Omar Sivori, from River Plate and the Welshman John Charles, from the Leeds United, who helped Giampiero Boniperti, in the function coupling, to form a trio of attack known in Italy as the Magical Trio. They were important in the conquest of the tenth Scudetto with fifty-one points and therefore the first "Gold Star for Sporting Merit" awarded by the Italian Football Federation, together won three Serie A championships and two Italian Cups. Juventus won the championship and the Italian Cup in 1960, with fifty-five points in the league and the cup, with 3:2 victory against Fiorentina. In 1961, with six goals scored by Sivori (Golden Ball that same season) in the 9:1 to Inter Milan, Juventus won the Italian league totaling forty-nine points, and at the end of the season, retired Boniperti sixteen years after playing in the club.

Legendary Cycle (1972-1986)

With the figure of the former Juventus player Giampiero Boniperti assuming the presidency of the club on July 13, 1971, opened a great cycle of success for the Old Lady, called Legendary Cycle. The work plan consisted Boniperti sign the best players in the national championship, this stage was characterized by the formation of future key players in the process, the club reached Dino Zoff, Fabio Capello, Roberto Bettega, Franco Causio, Giuseppe Furino, Claudio Gentile, among others. In that same season, the club was for the first time in its history the final of European Champions Cup in Belgrade, where they lost 1:0 against Ajax Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The new decade, with Giovanni Trapattoni on the bench, began with success, Juventus won the championship seasons of 1980-81 and 1981-82 (the twentieth), after obtaining the latter, gave the club the second Gold Star for Sporting Merit, with input from players such as center forward Paolo Rossi (former club's youth squad), Domenico and Giuseppe Galderisi Marocchino. The following season the club was ranked in second place in the league, won the title in the Italian Cup but was defeated in the final of the European Champions Cup finals in Athens to Hamburg S. V. Germany.In the campaign of 1983-84, the club formed a team which highlighted Stefano Tacconi, Cesare Prandelli, Michel Platini, Zbigniew Boniek, Massimo Bonini, Gaetano Scirea, Sergio Brio and Antonio Cabrini, in the same season, the team won the scudetto ( forty-three points) and the Cup Winners Cup in Basel, with a score of 2:1 to the F. C. Porto on May 16, 1984. In the season of 85, Juventus won the European Super Cup in Turin, with a score of 2:0 against Liverpool F. C. (January 16, 1985) and the European Cup in Brussels on May 29, 1-0 against the same opponents, with which the club was crowned the first ever European football to win the three major competitions organized by UEFA, made by which the European Union of Football Associations conferred in recognition of the Plate Championship in Geneva (Switzerland) on July 12, 1988. On May 29, 1985 Heysel tragedy occurred at the stadium of the same name in the Belgian capital, which killed thirty-nine club's fans before the onslaught of English Liverpool hooligans. On 8 December the same year, Juventus won the Intercontinental Cup, the first world title in their history interclub in Tokyo, defeated 6:4 (4:2 on penalties, 2:2 in regulation) to Argentinos Juniors, erecting as the first club in the world to win every possible international competitions.

The 1990

The Italian lawyer Vittorio Chiusano di Caissotti became president of the club in 1990 from that year, the club began to play their matches at the Stadio delle local Alpi (built for the World Cup 1990), which ultimately became the property of the club in 2004. With Luigi Maifredi coach arrived at the club likes of Julio Cesar da Silva, Paolo Di Canio, Roberto Baggio and Thomas Hassler. In that season, the club reached the semifinals of the Cup Winners Cup, which was eliminated by F. C. Barcelona. In the 1991-92 season, coach Giovanni Trapattoni returned to Juve, with him on the bench, the club earned a competitive level again, although it lost the final of the Italian Cup against Parma F. C. The following season, the team was strengthened by Andreas Möller and Gianluca Vialli and scored for the third time in its history the UEFA Cup in the league and ranked fourth. From the S. S. C. Napoli, Marcello Lippi took over Juventus in 1995.Juve, after nine years without a win in the championship, took second couplet in its history. In addition to winning the Scudetto in the 1994-95 season with ninety-six goals scored, seventy-three points, ten points clear of the second, S. S. Lazio, and scored his ninth Cup in Italy. The following year, Juventus, who included in his team players such as Gianluca Vialli, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Paulo Sousa, Alessandro Del Piero, Angelo Peruzzi, Didier Deschamps, Antonio Conte, Ciro Ferrara and Gianluca Pessotto, conquered the last trophy was missing the club, the Italian Super Cup (a trophy created by the Italian Football Federation in 1988, modeled on the European Super Cup). Internationally, after nine years of absence, Juventus took part in the European Cup (renamed in 1993 as Champions League UEFA), after removal of the semi-finals to Real Madrid (0:1 in Madrid, 2:0 in Turin), won the tournament (final played in Rome) against Ajax Amsterdam (1:1 in regular time, 4:2 by kicks from the penalty spot).

XXI Century (2001-present)

After three seasons without qualifications, Vittorio Chiusano di Caissotti (club president at the time) decided to hire a number of players to renew the workforce, among whom were the goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, Lilian Thuram right side (both ex- Parma) and Czech midfielder Pavel Nedved (ex-Lazio). In August 2001, Zinedine Zidane was transferred to Real Madrid of Spain, amounting to EUR 73.5 million (the second most expensive transfer in history). In the 2002-03 season, after winning his third Italian Super Cup against Parma, Juventus won the league championship two days before, and played the final of the Champions League after beating F. C. Barcelona in the quarter-finals (1:1 and 2:1 in Turin in Barcelona) and Real Madrid in the semifinals (1:2 at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu and 3-1 at the Stadio delle Alpi). Appearing for the seventh time the final tournament, held in Manchester, the team lost 2:3 in penalty shootout to the A. C. Milan, after a scoreless tie in regulation and overtime.In June 2006, Juventus Juventus opened its new Center, located in the town of Vinovo (on the outskirts of the city of Turin). That same month, following the wiretapping scandal and influence in the appointment of Italian soccer referees (called Calciopoli), the Agnelli family decided to appoint a new board of directors at the club (emphasizing the entrepreneur Giovanni Cobolli Gigli as the new president society and ex-players, Marco Tardelli and Gianluca Pessotto).Didier Deschamps, replaced in the club's technical director Fabio Capello, becoming the first coach of the club of Italian origin after thirty-three years. On July 14, 2006, around 21:00 (CET) was issued the ruling at first instance indicating the decline Administrative Serie B Juventus Scudetto revocation of the 2004-05 season and non- allocation scudetto championship 2005-06. After the appeal of the clubs involved in the Court of Justice of the Italian Football Federation, the penalty points was reduced from thirty to seventeen and the relegation to Serie B (the drop to Serie B was a penalty that only was applied to the Bianconeri club), similar to the penalties assigned to the other three clubs involved: Lazio, Fiorentina and Milan.The relegation to Serie B, Juventus made the losing several important players like Fabio Cannavaro, Lilian Thuram, Gianluca Zambrotta, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and more. In sports, the club joined eighty-five points in forty-two games played in Serie B (twenty-eight wins, ten draws and four losses, including further disciplinary nine points at the start of the tournament, which had been harvested 94 points instead of 85) and won the championship, so it amounted to Serie A to play the 2007-08 season. On June 4, 2007, Claudio Ranieri was officially named as coach of Juventus. The return of Juventus to Serie A, was officially on Saturday August 25, 2007, in a match against Livorno Calcio, which ended with a score of 5:1 in favor of bianconeros, and at the end of the season Juventus was third in the championship, behind Inter Milan and A. S. Rome.In the 2008-09 season the league had to play qualifying for the Champions League 2008-09 UEFA thanks to a third place finish last season at this stage faced the M. F. K. Petržalka winning the series for an overall score of 5:1, classified in Group H along with Real Madrid, Zenit St. Petersburg and F. C. BATE. He finished in the top spot next to Real Madrid with twelve points leaving behind the Zenit and BATE. In the second round clashed with Chelsea F. C. losing the series and being eliminated by an overall score of 3:2. At the local level was plagued season of good and bad results, which led to the dismissal of coach Claudio Ranieri, this being replaced by interim coach Ciro Ferrara ex-player of Napoli and Juventus. Finally ended the season second in the standings next to Milan and seventy-four points behind Inter Milan with ten points.In the 2009-10 season Juventus finished seventh in the table, being eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup with Inter Milan. Finished third in Group A Champions League behind Bordeaux and Bayern Munich, playing in the UEFA Europa League (formerly UEFA Cup) for the first time since 2000.For the 2010-11 season the club hired the Italian coach Luigi Delneri. On August 28, 2010 after 171 goals in 320 games left the club French striker David Trezeguet, who joined Hercules in the Primera Division in Spain. Juventus finished seventh in the league and was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup in Rome. In the Europa League finished third in their group with six points, the result of six draws. On May 31, 2011 Juve made official the hiring of former player Antonio Conte Bianconeri as coach, replacing Delneri.After two years of construction, the September 8, 2011 Stadium opened on Juventus, Juventus became the first club in Italy to have a stage property. On May 6, 2012, after nine years, Juventus won the championship of the 2011-12 season, winning by a score of 2-0 at Cagliari Calcio, winning scudetto and its twenty-eighth. In addition, Juventus finished the tournament undefeated with 23 wins, 15 draws and 84 points.

Featured players

Throughout its 113 year history, were more than 750 football players of Juventus Football Club who have worn the shirt of the first team, including 609 of Italian origin, a 79.40% of the total. Among the most prominent players are Giampiero Boniperti, winner of twenty-five titles, both as a player and club executive, who along with Welshman John Charles (awarded the OBE in 2002), and Argentine Omar Sivori (champion 1957 South American Championship with the Argentina national football team), formed one of the best front in the history of the club, called The Magic Trio between late 1950 and early 1960's, together won three Serie A championships and two Italian Cups.Another outstanding player, is Piero Pastore, who fifteen years old became the youngest player to debut in the shirt of Juventus. They also highlight Sergio Brio, Gaetano Scirea, Antonio Cabrini and Stefano Tacconi for being the only players in the club and Italy to have obtained all the international competitions recognized by UEFA. Pavel Nedved won the Golden Ball in 2003, is the player with more foreign presence in the club. Alessandro Del Piero with 290 goals and 705 games played, is the top scorer and the player with most appearances in the history of society. It also has the record for being the player who has remained longer at the club.With about 120 players, Juventus Football Club is the club that has contributed the largest number of players on the soccer team of Italy. Their contribution, one of the largest in the world, agreed particularly in his greatest hits: the world titles in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006. Giovanni Giacone, Osvaldo Novo and Bruna Antonio, were the first players to be invited to juventinos the Italian national team, participating in a friendly match on March 28, 1920 in Bern, Switzerland to the selection with victory for the local by 3:0.

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