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Juventus

Full name	Juventus Football Club SpA
Nickname(s)	La Vecchia Signora (The Old Lady) Bianconeri (White-blacks) Zebre (Zebras) Gobbi (Hunchbacks)
Founded	November 1, 1897
Ground	Stadio delle Alpi, Turin, Italy
Capacity	67,229
Chairman	Franzo Grande Stevens
Manager	Fabio Capello
League	Serie A
2005-06	Serie A, 1st
Home colours 　 Away colours

Juventus Football Club (Latin for Youth, pronounced /ju.ˈvɛn.təs/) is one of Italy's oldest and most renowned football clubs, based in Turin, Piedmont, and it competes in Serie A. With 11 official international titles in team honours (second in Europe), Juve is the 3rd best club in All-time ranking of the UEFA's European Tournaments and 4th in All-time ranking of the UEFA Champions League. It is widely regarded as one of the most supported and successful football clubs in the world, however it is currently embroiled in match fixing allegations that has rocked Italian football. Juventus' future amidst these allegations is uncertain.

The team typically plays in black-and-white striped shirts and white shorts (but sometimes in black shorts), and is nicknamed la Vecchia Signora (the Old Lady, by the first official name), i bianconeri (black-and-whites), zebre (zebras), or deprecatively gobbi (humpbacks - in Italian slang it means "lucky") by the opponents.

The team gets its black-and-white striped kits from English side Notts County. Originally the team played in pink shirts (pink being the cheapest material available) with a black tie. When the club decided to change these, it was decided to import kits, but a mix-up by the supplier meant that the team got the Notts County black and white instead and the club had no money to send the kit back.

Juventus F.C. was founded in November 1897 by students from Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum with the name Società Polisportiva Augusta Taurinorum, in a legendary bench in one of Turin's boulevard, Re Umberto boulevard. The team won a previous version of the national league title as early as 1905, but did not win their second until 1926. In 1923, the Agnelli family (owners of Fiat) gained control of the club, and built a private stadium in Villar Perosa (near Turin) and a complete series of facilities and services.

From 1931, the club collected the record of five consecutive Italian league championships (Italian scudetto). In 1933, they began playing at the Stadio Municipale 'Benito Mussolini' (later renamed Stadio Comunale). Post-war the club was very successful domestically, winning its tenth championship in 1961, but did not win any European titles until 1977 with the UEFA Cup.

The height of European success was not reached until 1985, when they won the European Champions Cup, but this success was largely overshadowed by the Heysel disaster that had occurred during the final between Juventus and Liverpool. Juventus repeated the success by winning the Champions League for a second time in 1996 in a penalty shootout, and have not won it again since, the closest chance being when they lost to A.C. Milan in the 2003 final due to losing in a penalty shootout.

Juventus also won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1984 and two more UEFA Cup (1990, 1993). However, in 1999, due to their poor domestic season, they were forced into the ignominy of entering the UEFA Intertoto Cup in order to qualify for Europe. They have won 29 Italian titles and nine Coppa Italias to date, both national records. The club is also one of only three to have won all Three Major European trophies (FC Barcelona has won the Inter City Fair's Cup, NEVER the UEFA Cup).

Until recently, Juventus' players had to wear short (and regular) hair (there was only one exception to this rule: in the 1970s right winger Franco Causio was so popular that the club allowed him to wear long hair); the club also provided the team with official formal wear (made by famous tailors) and forced them to complete their educational studies. Most of its players remained with Juventus until the end of their careers; many still work for the club or for Fiat (or related companies).

The two stars on the Juventus shirt signify they have won the Scudetto over 20 times. In fact, Juventus won the Italian Championship 29 times, more than any other Italian club; no other club has won the championship over 20 times, but the closest one to that objective is AC Milan. The number of titles Juve has rightfully won is currently under scrutiny and may perhaps be being reduced, due to charges of sport fraud over the past few years, to 27.

Juventus is now a corporation, listed on the Borsa Italiana. The sale of Zinedine Zidane to Real Madrid of Spain was the most expensive in football to date, costing the Spanish club over $65 million (US), which is accurately £48 million.

The club's stadium is the 69,041-seat Stadio delle Alpi, which it currently shares with Torino F.C.. This arrangement will end after the 2005–06 season, when Torino F.C. will open a new ground of its own. The Juventus Director Antonio Giraudo has announced that for the 2006–2007 season Juventus will move to Stadio Grande Torino while Stadio delle Alpi will be reconstructed and have its capacity reduced. The current stadium's name will no longer stand since Juventus are looking to sell the naming rights of the new reconstructed stadium to a sponsor much to the disappointment of the club's fans who wanted to see the stadium named to honor the Agnelli family members Giovanni Agnelli or Gianni Agnelli. The final capacity of the new stadium is still unknown but it's expected to be lowered significantly because of Juve's attendance problems and design faults of the Delle Alpi. The running track will also be removed in order to give the fans a better view - something that they have complained about since the stadium has been built for the 1990 World Cup.The stadium renovation is expected to last for a year compared to two years if Juventus continued to play in the stadium while the work took place. Some new features that will open after the renovation are rumored to be various shopping malls, restaurants, team stores and a hotel. The work is expected to begin at the end of the current season.

On January 10, 2006 Alessandro Del Piero became the all time leading goalscorer for Juventus when he scored three times in a match against Fiorentina and took his total goals for the club to 185. The previous record holder was Giampiero Boniperti, who scored 182 goals for the club. Other famous players to have played for the club include Omar Sivori, Liam Brady, Michel Platini, Franco Causio, Gaetano Scirea, Marco Tardelli, Gianluca Vialli, Christian Vieri, Filippo Inzaghi, Dino Zoff, Roberto Baggio, John Charles, Zinedine Zidane, Pavel Nedvěd and Thierry Henry.

Rivalries and Controversy

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In spite (or because) of its huge popularity, Juve is at the same time considered the most controversial and most popular club in Italy. Its detractors mainly point the gap between Juve's national and international successes, citing "influenced" refereeing in Italy as the cause of this gap. What many fail to realize however is that Juventus are one of the most successful teams in all european competitions and have made more UEFA Champions League Final appearances than almost every other team in the history of the competition.

Juve has significant rivalries with several teams, such as Fiorentina, AC Milan, AS Roma, Torino F.C. and F.C. Internazionale. Notably, matches between Juventus and Inter are referred to as the Derby d'Italia (Derby of Italy), because of the fact that both Inter and Juventus are the only two clubs that have never been relegated from the Italian top division. In recent years there have been many disagreements between the two clubs. Possibly the most notorious recent event causing this rivalry between Inter and Juve was a disputed penalty on Ronaldo not given to Inter in a crucial tiebreaker match for the Serie A title in 1998. Finally, Inter has lost the championship in the decisive match against SS Lazio (Inter 2-4 Lazio) when in the meantime, Inter has winning 2-0.

In the defence of Juventus however, for example, they experienced a similar situation themselves 2 years later in 2000 when Juventus lost the Serie A championship in the season finale against AC Perugia. Despite a violent thunderstorm which had soaked the terrain with rain, referee Pierluigi Collina (after, he was declared a SS Lazio's supporter), under immense pressure, after an hour delay, had the players continue the match on a playground that was in very poor shape. In the meantime Lazio's match was already over, and its supporters waited in their stadium as Juventus was beaten 1-0, thus giving the Roman team its second Scudetto.

One of the most controversial matches in Juventus history was their clash with English Champions Derby County FC in the Semi Final of the European Cup in 1973. After Juventus won 3-1 on aggregate the West German referee admitted to accepting bribes from Juventus officials in order to give decisions favourably towards them. Derby's then manager Brian Clough responding by callings the Italians "cheating bastards" and taunted the Italian nation's courage in the war.

Although many people mention examples of controversial matches with Juventus being the team who benefits, there have been many occasions which have shown the opposite against Juventus FC, too. In the UEFA Champions league 1998's Armsterdam Final, Predrag Mijatovic of Real Madrid scored a goal against Juventus from an evident off-side postion but the goal was allowed and resulted in Real Madrid winning the match 1-0. Another example can be seen in the UEFA Champions League 2003's Manchester Final, in which case Dida (AC Milan won 3-2 in PK against Juventus FC) was in a criticised illegal position in the penalty shootout (0-0 in regular time), principally in Paolo Montero and Marcelo Zalayeta's decisive penalty kicks. Yet another example in the UEFA Champions League 2005's Quarter Final, Alessando Del Piero's goal (which when viewed in replays is an evident legal goal) was disallowed against Liverpool FC "for hipotetic off-side". Liverpool won the match 2-1. In 2001, for Serie A, AS Roma had its Japanese midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata naturalized as a "comunitarian" (EU country national; the rule limited the number of non-European players one could field) player just before a decisive match played in Turin against Juventus. Nakata's brilliant performance and goal proved decisive in gaining a 2:2 tie that ensured AS Roma's final victory. These facts are usually never quoted when Juventus is regularly accused on many tv programs of "playing foul, using illicit drugs, corrupting or otherwise influencing match officials".

In early 2005, a video was released [to coincide with Juventus' champioship run-in with A.C Milan] of Fabio Cannavaro (at the time playing for Parma AC) by RAI (the national public Italian TV of the Berlusconi's Group), which showed an alleged dressing room doping incident prior to the 1998-99 UEFA Cup Final between Parma and Olympique de Marseille. While the substance in the drip was proven to be a permitted substance, this nonetheless led to a huge scandal primarily fueled by Juve's rival clubs. It should be noted that Cannavaro had no association with Juventus at this time and in fact played for a rival club.

In 1998, former A.S. Roma manager Zdeněk Zeman accused Juventus physicians of doping its players from 1993-94 to 1997-98 seasons. After several years of official inquiries and 2 trials by UEFA and FIGC, the case was dismissed in late December 14, 2005 for statute of limitations, and the Juventus physician Riccardo Agricola has been cleared of all the doping charges because of statute of limitations. (The drugs in question were Erythropoietin, legal in sports medicine and used frequently among cyclists, but was prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency until the 2000-01 season, and, principally, creatine, which is considered an athletic legal supplement and has never been prohibited by WADA and COI).

In May 2006, a major scandal developed around the controversial figure of "Lucky" Luciano Moggi, the general manager of Juventus. Moggi, as well as figures from other clubs such as AC Milan, ACF Fiorentina and SS Lazio, were accused of associazione a delinquere (conspiracy to commit a crime). Evidence exists in wiretapped phone calls registered by magistrates, in which Moggi appeared to try to "adjust" matches and have specific referees appointed for matches. On May 13th, the "Triade" composed of Moggi, Roberto Bettega and Antonio Giraudo, resigned together with the entire Juventus administrative council.

When Moggi officially announced his resignation to the press, on May 14th, he declared that "the world of football is no longer my world."

On the 14 May 2006 Juventus' 2-0 victory over Reggina secured them their 29th Scudetto and brought them to within one league championship of assuming a third star on their shirt.

The previous Juventus logo

Current first team squad

As of May 18th, 2006

No. Position Player 1 GK Gianluigi Buffon 2 DF Alessandro Birindelli 3 DF Giorgio Chiellini 4 MF Patrick Vieira 6 DF Robert Kovač 7 DF Gianluca Pessotto 8 MF Emerson 9 FW Zlatan Ibrahimović 10 FW Alessandro Del Piero (captain) 11 MF Pavel Nedvěd 14 DF Federico Balzaretti 16 MF Mauro Camoranesi

No. Position Player 17 FW David Trézéguet 18 FW Adrian Mutu 19 MF Gianluca Zambrotta (vice-captain) 20 MF Manuele Blasi 21 DF Lilian Thuram 22 GK Landry Bonnefoi 23 MF Giuliano Giannichedda 24 MF Ruben Olivera 25 FW Marcelo Zalayeta 27 DF Jonathan Zebina 28 DF Fabio Cannavaro 32 GK Christian Abbiati (on loan from AC Milan)

Transfers

Note: these transfers will not be effective before the opening of the transfer market.

In

		MF	Marco Marchionni (from Parma)
		MF	Cristiano Zanetti (from Inter Milan)

Team honours

In terms of league championships (called Albo d'Oro (palmarés) ), the club is the most successful in Italian football and one of the most successful around the world.

• Italian Championships: 29 (record).
  • 1905, 1925-26, 1930-31, 1931-32, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1949-50, 1951-52, 1957-58, 1959-60, 1960-61, 1966-67, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1974-75, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1994-95, 1996-97, 1997-98, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2004-05, 2005-06 .

• Italian Cups: 9 (record).
  • 1937-38, 1941-42, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1964-65, 1978-79, 1982-83, 1989-90, 1994-95.

• Italian Supercups: 4
  • 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003.

• European Cups: 2 (now called: UEFA Champions League).
  • 1984-85, 1995-96.

• Cup Winners' Cups: 1
  • 1983-84.

• UEFA Cups: 3 (record).
  • 1976-77, 1989-90, 1992-93.

• European Super Cups: 2
  • 1985, 1996 (not played the 1985's version against Everton FC by U.E.F.A.'s order).

• Intertoto Cups: 1
  • 1999-2000.

• Intercontinental Cups: 2
  • 1985, 1996.

OFFICIAL NATIONAL FINALS (runner-up):

• Italian Cups: 4
  • 1972-73, 1991-92, 2001-02, 2003-04

• Italian SuperCup: 3
  • 1990, 1998, 2005.

OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FINALS (runner-up):

• 'European Champions Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League: 5'
  • 1972/73, 1982/83, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2002/03

• 'UEFA Cup: 1'
  • 1993/94

• European Inter-City Fair's Cup: 2 (not official tournament by U.E.F.A)
  • 1964/65, 1970/71

• 'Intercontinental Champions Clubs' Cup: 1'
  • 1973

• First team in Europe to win all Three Major European Trophies (also called The European Grand Slam): UEFA Champions League (1985) /UEFA Cup Winner's Cup (1984) /UEFA Cup (1977). Actually is one of only three clubs to have won all these tournaments.
• Only team in Europe to win all UEFA's Official Championships (the European Intertoto Cup of 1962 and European SuperCup of 1971 in AFC Ajax's palmares are not official trophies by U.E.F.A).
• Only Italian team to win a European Official Tournament only with Italian players in First team Squad (the UEFA Cup in 1977 as the first southern European club).

Greatest players

The following is a list, divided in historical periods, of the greatest players in the history of Juventus.

The past

• Carlo Bigatto I
• Giuseppe Grabbi
• Férénc Hirzer
• Federico Munerati
• Jozsef Viola
• Silvio Viola
• James Pitt

The champions of the years 1931-1935

• Giampiero Combi
• Virginio Rosetta
• Umberto Caligaris
• Raimundo Orsi
• Luis Monti
• Giovanni Ferrari
• Felice Borel
• Felipe Plácido Borel II
• Lucidio Sentimenti IV
• Luigi Bertolini
• Alfredo Foni
• Pietro Rava

1950s and 1960s

• Giampiero Boniperti
• Tarcisio Burgnich
• John Charles
• Nestor Combin
• John Hansen
• Ermes Muccinelli
• Carlo Parola
• Silvio Piola
• Karl Aage Praest
• Giuliano Sarti
• Omar Sivori
• Cestmir Vycpalek

The period of Boniperti and Trapattoni (1970s to 1990s)

José Altafini Alessandro Altobelli Pietro Anastasi Dino Baggio Romeo Benetti Roberto Bettega Zbigniew Boniek Massimo Bonini Roberto Boninsegna Liam Brady Sergio Brio Renato Buso Fabio Capello Pierluigi Casiraghi Franco Causio Julio Cesar Eugenio Corini Antonello Cuccureddu Luigi De Agostini Luis Del Sol Pietro Fanna Giuseppe Furino Giuseppe Galderisi Roberto Galia Bruno Giordano

Helmut Haller Thomas Häßler Jürgen Kohler Michael Laudrup Giancarlo Marocchi Domenico Marocchino Massimo Mauro Andreas Möller Francesco Morini Michel Platini David Platt Cesare Prandelli Stefan Reuter Rui Barros Ian Rush Sandro Salvadore Salvatore Schillaci Aldo Serena Luciano Spinosi Stefano Tacconi Franco Tancredi Marco Tardelli Pietro Paolo Virdis Aleksandr Zavarov

The 1982 world champions

• Dino Zoff
• Claudio Gentile
• Antonio Cabrini
• Gaetano Scirea
• Franco Causio
• Marco Tardelli
• Paolo Rossi

The Lippi era

Roberto Baggio Alessandro Birindelli Alen Bokšić Massimo Carrera Antonio Conte Edgar Davids Alessandro Del Piero Didier Deschamps Angelo Di Livio Marco Di Vaio Dimas Teixeira Juan Esnaider Ciro Ferrara Daniel Fonseca Thierry Henry Filippo Inzaghi Mark Iuliano Vladimir Jugović Darko Kovačević Attilio Lombardo

Enzo Maresca Zoran Mirković Paolo Montero Michele Padovano Fabio Pecchia Angelo Peruzzi Gianluca Pessotto Sergio Porrini Michelangelo Rampulla Fabrizio Ravanelli Marcelo Salas Paulo Sousa Alessio Tacchinardi Moreno Torricelli Igor Tudor Edwin Van der Sar Gianluca Vialli Pietro Vierchowod Christian Vieri Zinédine Zidane

The present

• Christian Abbiati
• Manuele Blasi
• Gianluigi Buffon
• Mauro Camoranesi
• Fabio Cannavaro
• Giorgio Chiellini
• Emerson Ferreira da Rosa
• Zlatan Ibrahimović
• Robert Kovac
• Adrian Mutu
• Pavel Nedvěd
• Lilian Thuram
• David Trézéguet
• Patrick Vieira
• Gianluca Zambrotta

All-Time Top 10 Goalscorers

Player	Goals
Alessandro Del Piero (*)	194
Giampiero Boniperti	182
Roberto Bettega	178
Omar Sivori	167
Felice Placido Borel II	161
Pietro Anastasi	131
David Trézéguet (*)	125
John Hansen	124
Roberto Baggio	115
Federico Munerati	114

(*) denotes still active in the Juventus FC team.

All-Time Top 10 Appearances

Player!Appearance	Sam Hepburn	671
Gaetano Scirea	552
Giuseppe Furino	528
Alessandro Del Piero (*)	482
Roberto Bettega	481
Dino Zoff	476
Giampiero Boniperti	460
Sandro Salvatore	450
Franco Causio	447
Antonio Cabrini	440
Antonello Cuccureddu	433

(*) denote still active in the Juventus FC team.