Juventus F.C.

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Juventus F.C.
Full name	Juventus Football Club S.p. A
Nickname(s)	La Vecchia Signora, Madama (The Old Lady) La Fidanzata d'Italia (The Girlfriend of Italy) I bianconeri (The black-and-whites) Le zebre (The zebras) "Juve"
Founded	November 1, 1897
Ground	Stadio delle Alpi / Stadio Olimpico di Torino (2006-07) Turin, Italy
Capacity	67,229 / 27,128
Chairman	Giovanni Cobolli Gigli
Head Coach	Didier Deschamps
League	Serie B
2005-06	Serie A, 1st (18th following the Serie A scandal)
Home colours 　 Away colours

Juventus Football Club (from Latin ^[1] iuventus: youth, IPA: [ju.ˈvɛn.tus]); (pronounced yoo-ven-toos) also known as Juventus Turin (or Juventus Torino), Juventus F.C., Juventus, or simply Juve, is a football club from Turin.

The club plays in the FIGC Serie B (Italian Second Division as a consequence of the 2006 Serie A scandal, for the first time ^[2] in their history. Juventus is the most successful club ^[2] in the history of the Italian football ^[3] and, with 11 official international titles in its honours, is the third club in Europe ^[4] and fifth club in the world ^[4] with the most international titles recognized by the Union of European Football Associations ^[5] and the International Federation of Association Football.

In 1985, Juventus became the first club in the history of the European football to have won all three Major European trophies ^[6] and also, the only team in the world to have won all international cups and championships ^[5] (which includes all official European tournaments ^[5] and the Intercontinental Champions Clubs' Cup ^[7]).
Juventus is also one of the G-14’s founding members, a group that represents eighteen of the largest and most prestigious ^[8] European football clubs.

During its history, the club has acquired a number of nicknames, la Vecchia Signora (the Old Lady) being the best example ^[9]. This nickname, globally famous, was derived by the standard of living of then founders, all young torinesi students, in the latest years of the nineteenth century. The club is also nicknamed la Fidanzata d'Italia (the Girlfriend of Italy), because the club was highly supported by the immigrant workers from Italy's south, who arrived in Turin to work for FIAT since the third decade of twentieth century). The others Juventus’ nicknames, I bianconeri (the black-and-whites) and le zebre (The zebras ^[10]) has derived by its institutional colours: black and white since 1903.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Early years in the League 1.2 European success 1.3 The Lippi era 1.4 2006 Serie A corruption scandal 1.4.1 Trial 1.4.2 Aftermath 2 Current season 3 Juventus’ contribution to Italian national team 4 Current squad 4.1 Selected Primavera/Berretti players 5 Notable former players 5.1 1897-1946 5.2 1946-1969 5.3 1970s and 1980s 5.4 1990 and onwards 6 Club statistics and records 7 Colours and badge 8 Supporters 9 Rivalries 10 Achievements 10.1 National titles 10.2 International titles [32] 11 Juventus Football Club: the company 11.1 Kit providers & sponsors 11.1.1 Kit providers 11.1.2 Sponsors 12 See also 13 References 14 External links

[edit] History

The club was founded on November 1, 1897 by a group of youngsters age 14 to 17 from the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum in Turin with the name Società Polisportiva Augusta Taurinorum. The club soon changed its name to Juventus F.C., however; there are very few records documenting the birth of the club, the only known one is that written by Enrico Canfari, Juventus' first president, wrote in 1914 one of the founders.

[edit] Early years in the League

The club made their debut in the Italian Football Championship during 1900, wearing their original pink shirts. The club adopted their famous black and white striped shirts in 1903 winning their first Italian championship two years later in 1905 narrowly beating out Genoa CFC and A.C. Milan.

Juventus had built up a strong squad, soon after securing their first championship; president Alfredo Dick would leave the club in anger. He left and formed a new club named Turin F.C. taking some of Juve's top foreign players with him. From this period until the First World War, Italian football was dominated largely by other clubs; Pro Vercelli and Casale.

The Juventus squad was steadily re-built under the presidency of Corradino Corradini, several players were called up to the Italian national team for the first time. Around this period goalkeeper Giampiero Combi debuted, he would go on to become a club hero. In 1923, Edoardo Agnelli of the Agnelli family (who are also the owners of Fiat) gained control of the club, and built a private stadium in Villar Perosa (near Turin) and a complete set of facilities and services. This proved a good move for the club, as Juventus won their second Italian championship during the 1925-26 season.

From 1931, the club collected the record of five consecutive Italian league championships under coach Carlo Carcano; the squad included Raimundo Orsi, Luigi Bertolini, Giovanni Ferrari, Luis Monti and others. In 1933, Juventus began playing at what is considered their first major home; Stadio Mussolini (later renamed Stadio Comunale). After-World War II the club was very successful domestically, winning its tenth championship in 1961; they were the first club to do so, and thus were allowed to wear a little golden star above their crest on their shirt.

[edit] European success

European success first came for the club in 1977, when they won the UEFA Cup. Although relatively luke warm on the European stage at this point; they had won the Italian championship five more times throughout the 1970s.

Franco Causio became a very popular player at the club during the 1970s, in fact he was so popular that the club allowed him to wear his hair long, prior to Causio this was against the rules. 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 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 Stadium disaster that had occurred during the final between Juventus and Liverpool, in which 39 people were killed.

[edit] The Lippi era

Marcello Lippi took over as Juventus manager in 1994. During his first season, Juventus recorded their first Serie A championship since the mid-1980s. Around this time the squad featured the likes of Ciro Ferrara, Roberto Baggio, Gianluca Vialli and a young Alessandro Del Piero, who would become heir to Baggio's throne.

Juventus followed up their home success by winning the Champions League for the second time in their history in 1996, the game went down to a penalty shootout against Ajax Amsterdam; Vladimir Jugović scored the deciding penalty kick. During the following years a second wave of what are considered Lippi-era legends joined; Zinedine Zidane, Filippo Inzaghi, Edgar Davids and briefly Thierry Henry. Since the Champions League victory, they won their home league twice more and the European Super Cup. Between 1996 and 1998, they appeared in all three Champions League finals, losing to Borussia Dortmund in 1997 and Real Madrid in 1998.

During 1998, former A.S. Roma manager Zdeněk Zeman falsely accused Juventus physicians of doping their players from the 1993-94 to 1997-98 seasons. After several years of official inquiries and 2 trials by UEFA and FIGC, Juventus were cleared of all charges by the international Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Neither the pharmaceutical substances that were in question were banned nor did any Juventus players have positive test results for any illegal doping substances.^[11] The substances in question were principally creatine - which is considered a legal athletic supplement and has never been prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency - and Erythropoietin, legal in sports medicine and used frequently among cyclists, but prohibited by WADA at the start of the 2000-01 season).

Lippi left Juventus for rivals Internazionale F.C. briefly. He returned to Juve after one season, and signed the third and final wave of Lippi-era players; Gianluigi Buffon, David Trézéguet, Marcelo Salas, Pavel Nedvěd and Lilian Thuram amongst others. He lead the team to two more Serie A titles in the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons. Juventus appeared in an all Italian Champions League final, against rivals AC Milan; the game ended in a goaless draw, 0-0, and so again had to be decided in a penalty shootout, but this time Juventus lost. Lippi left the following year as he was appointed by the Italian national team as head coach, he would go on to win the World Cup with them two years later.

[edit] 2006 Serie A corruption scandal

Main article: 2006 Serie A scandal

Since 2004, Fabio Capello had taken over the club, and lead them to two more Serie A titles. But During May 2006, Juventus were one of four clubs (along with A.C. Milan, ACF Fiorentina, and S.S. Lazio Roma) linked to an Italian match fixing scandal. The scandal centered around Juventus' then general manager; Luciano Moggi, who along with other Italian football federation figures were accused of "slealtà" (dishonest sporting behavior) and "illecito Sportivo"(illegal sports actions). Moggi was accused of trying to "influence" referee assigners in order to have certain referees assigned to Juventus' matches. Moggi was also accused of "sequestro di persona" (false imprisonment) for having locked a referee in his dressing room at the stadium after a loss. On May 13, Moggi along with two other members of the board resigned, along with the entire Juventus administrative council. No players were accused of any wrong-doing.

[edit] Trial

Juventus, A.C. Milan, ACF Fiorentina and S.S. Lazio Roma were ordered to stand trial on June 28 2006. A day before the trial, Juventus' new director of sport Gianluca Pessotto, fell from a 4th story window, seriously injuring himself. Reports claimed that Pessoto was clutching a rosary, an indication of a possible suicide attempt related to stress due to the scandal.^[12] Later Pessotto’s wife said that his suicide attempt was nothing to do with the scandal but to do with his job and other personal reasons.

Manager Fabio Capello left Juventus in early July 2006 for Real Madrid. He was replaced by former French international Didier Deschamps, who had played for Juventus in the 1990s.^[13] The Italian Football Federation's prosecutor, Stefano Palazzi, called for Juventus, Lazio, Fiorentina and AC Milan to be thrown out of Serie A. He called for Juventus to drop to at least Serie C1 and for AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio to drop to at least Serie B. He also asked for points penalties to be imposed and that Juventus be stripped of their 2005 and 2006 scudetti.^[14]

When the sentences were handed down, Juventus was stripped of their 2005 and 2006 scudetti and relegated to Serie B.^[15] They were also kicked out of the UEFA Champions League for the forthcoming 2006/07 season. Juventus was also docked 30 points for 2006/2007, which club president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli called the equivalent of being knocked down to Serie C1. The 30-point deduction--the equivalent of having 10 wins count for nothing--would have made it very difficult for Juventus to return to Serie A until 2008 at the earliest.

Juventus appealed the decision. Though the court refused Juventus' request for reinstatement to Serie A and to restore Juventus' 2005 and 2006 titles, it did reduce Juventus' point deduction from 30 to 17. The court also required Juventus to play their first three home matches at neutral sites. Recently, Juventus had their 17 point penalty reduced to 9 points.^[16]

Juventus said they "absolutely cannot accept" even these reduced sanctions, and filed an appeal at the Lazio regional court in a last effort to be reinstated into Serie A, but withdrew the appeal on August 31.^[17][18]

[edit] Aftermath

Six key players have been sold to other clubs during the summer of 2006: Emerson and Italian national captain Fabio Cannavaro both rejoined Fabio Capello at Real Madrid, while Cannavaro's fullback colleague Gianluca Zambrotta and French defender Lilian Thuram were signed by Barcelona. Patrick Vieira moved to Inter Milan for a reported sum of €9.5m along with striker Zlatan Ibrahimović for €24.8m. Some of the club's top stars did however remain loyal to the club, including goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, former Czech star Pavel Nedvěd, long-serving striker Alessandro Del Piero, Mauro Camoranesi and French striker David Trézéguet though Trézéguet had said that he was forced to stay at Juventus^[19].

The 2006 scudetto was awarded to rivals Inter Milan (who finished in 3rd place behind Juventus and Milan), while the 2005 title is vacant. Since the trial, some further controversy has emerged especially among the Juve fanbase, due to perceived bias in favour of Inter Milan who were the main beneficiary from the 2006 Serie A scandal. The company who caught the infamous Moggi phone taps; Telecom Italia has since been taken over by President of the FIGC Guido Rossi from Marco Tronchetti, who is also the president of Inter's main sponsor Pirelli. This is coupled with the fact that Rossi is said to be a loyal Inter fan.^[20]

[edit] Current season

See also Juventus F.C. 2006-07 season

Following the sanctions, Juventus are now playing outside the top flight for the first time in their history, leaving Internazionale as the only Italian club to never have been relegated. The team made its Serie B debut on September 9, 2006, earning their first ever point in Serie B with a 1-1 draw away to Rimini Calcio F.C..

After that, Juventus won its next eight games, scoring 16 goals and conceding just one. The winning streak ended with a 1-1 draw at Napoli. In that game, goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon's streak of not conceding a goal ended at 733 minutes. Against Albinoleffe, Buffon was shown the red card for the first time in his career and conceded a penalty, but a 10-man Juve team managed to draw the game. They were undefeated in Serie B until the team lost at Mantova on Jan. 14, 2007.

On December 15, 2006 Juventus youth team Berretti players Alessio Ferramosca and Riccardo Neri, both 17 years old, drowned in a lake at the Vinovo training centre in Turin, apparently when trying to recover some footballs that had fallen into the ice-cold water. The Juventus vs Cesena (Serie B) game scheduled for that day was cancelled due to the tragedy. ^[21]

Juventus has been officially crowned winter champions of Series B 06-07 after a draw with Spezia, which in injury time, Nedved scored a goal to help Juventus equalize.

[edit] Juventus’ contribution to Italian national team

See also Italian national football team

Overall, Juventus is the club that has contributed the most players in the Italian national team’s history ^[22], principally in the world football championship’s victories of the "Azzurri": in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006. This fact –principally in 1934 and 1982- is intimately related with the two golden ages of the torinesi club’s history -"Il Quinquennio d’Oro" (The Golden Quinquennium), since 1931 to 1935, and "Il Ciclo Leggendario" (The Legendary Cycle), since 1972 to 1986-.

In 1934, during the Vittorio Pozzo age, the "Old Lady" was the club that contributed the most players (9) ^[23], including Giampiero Combi, Giovanni Ferrari, Luis Monti, Raimundo Orsi and Luigi Bertolini, the backbone of the Italian team that won the 2nd Jules Rimet Trophy in that year (see details in Juventus F.C. statistics and records article). This Juventus’ players group was so called "Nazio-Juve".
Two young Juventus’ players about the middle of the third decade of twentieth century, Alfredo Foni and Pietro Rava -join a Aldo Olivieri, Torino’s player, Combi-Rosetta-Caligaris trio’s inheritors-, had an outstanding performance with the Italian team in 1936 and 1938, Olympic and world champion respectively.

In 1978, during the Enzo Bearzot age, the backbone of the Italian team that was classified in 4th position - its best performance since 1970 - was represented by 11 Juventus’ players ^[23], including Antonello Cuccureddu, Roberto Bettega, Roberto Boninsegna, Romeo Benetti, Giuseppe Furino, Franco Causio and, principally, five of the six Juventus’ 1982 world champions, also UEFA Cup champions. This second Juventus players group in the history of the Italian football and the Italian national team was so called "Blocco-Juve" ^[24] (Juve Block).
Four years later, the six most outstanding Juve block’s members - some have also won all three Major European trophies ^[6] with the Old Lady in 1985 ^[25]-, had an outstanding performance in the 1982 FIFA World Cup (see details in Juventus F.C. statistics and records article), the first Italian team’s world-wide title since 1938.

Franco Causio, a Juventus player during 12 seasons, was part of the Italian national team that won the World Cup in 1982 as a Udinese player. Like Paolo Rossi in Spain 1982, Salvatore Schillaci -Totò-, another Juventus player, has been the top goalscorer (6) in Italy 1990 (Italy finished in 3rd position).During 1994, another two Juventus players –Roberto Baggio, 1993 European Footballer of the Year, and Gianluca Vialli- had an outstanding performance with the Italian team, Italy finishing runner-up in USA world championship.

Most recently in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, eight Juventus players –Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Cannavaro, Gianluca Zambrotta, Mauro Germán Camoranesi and Alessandro Del Piero from the Italian team and Lilian Thuram, Patrick Vieira and David Trézéguet from the French team- played in the World Cup Final on 9 July 2006, a world record.
Amongst the foreign players-world champions at the moment of their militancy in the Old Lady, the most famous is, probably, the French Zinédine Zidane (France 1998). Also remembering Michel Platini, Euro Cup champion in 1984 and Didier Deschamps, world champion as Juventus player in 1998 and Euro Cup champion in 2000 as a Chelsea player.

Juventus is the only Italian football club that contributed players to every Italian national teams since the 2nd FIFA World Cup ^[23]. The Old Lady is the football club with the most world champions in the world (24 world champion players between 22 Italian players).

[edit] Current squad

As of 10 September 2006^[26]

No. Position Player 1 GK Gianluigi Buffon 2 DF Alessandro Birindelli (vice-captain) 3 DF Giorgio Chiellini 4 DF Robert Kovač 5 DF Igor Tudor 6 MF Cristiano Zanetti 8 MF Giuliano Giannichedda 9 FW Valeri Bojinov 10 FW Alessandro Del Piero (captain) 11 MF Pavel Nedvěd 12 GK Antonio Mirante 13 DF Felice Piccolo 14 DF Federico Balzaretti

No. Position Player 15 MF Claudio Marchisio 16 MF Mauro Camoranesi 17 FW David Trézéguet 18 DF Jean-Alain Boumsong 19 MF Matteo Paro 20 FW Raffaele Palladino 22 GK Emanuele Belardi (on loan from Reggina) 25 FW Marcelo Zalayeta 27 DF Jonathan Zebina 29 MF Paolo De Ceglie 30 DF Nicola Legrottaglie 32 MF Marco Marchionni 33 DF Orlando Urbano

• Retired numbers

Main article: retired numbers

7 – Gianluca Pessotto, fullback and midfielder, 1995-2006

[edit] Selected Primavera/Berretti players

These players granted first team shirts^[27]:

No. Position Player 35 DF Andrea Pisani 37 DF Luca Lagnese 38 DF Giuseppe Rizza 39 FW Samon Reider Rodriguez 40 MF Dario Venitucci 41 FW Riccardo Maniero 42 MF Raffaele Bianco

No. Position Player 43 FW Sebastian Giovinco 44 FW Davide Lanzafame 45 GK Matteo Trini 46 MF Andre Cuneaz 47 MF Salvatore D'Elia 99 DF Andrea Ciolli

Out on loan

No. Position Player GK Landry Bonnefoi (at Metz) GK Claudio Scarzanella (at Crotone) DF Giovanni Bartolucci (co-ownership at Siena) DF Francesco Calanchi (return from Cervia, on loan to Cattolica) DF Domenico Criscito (at Genoa) DF Daniele Gastaldello (co-ownership at Siena) 26 DF Andrea Rossi (at Siena) MF Simone Bentivoglio (on loan at Modena) (co-ownership with Chievo) MF Manuele Blasi (at Fiorentina) MF Viktor Boudianski (co-ownership at Ascoli) 36 MF Davide Chiumiento (at Young Boys) MF Andrea Gasbarroni (at Parma)

No. Position Player 21 MF Olivier Kapo (at Levante) MF Andrea Luci (at Pescara) MF Antonio Nocerino (co-ownership at Piacenza) 24 MF Ruben Olivera (at Sampdoria) MF Alessio Tacchinardi (at Villarreal) 23 FW Tomás Guzmán (at Spezia) FW Fabrizio Miccoli (at Benfica) FW Packer (at Siena) FW Michele Paolucci (at Ascoli) 28 FW Giuseppe Sculli (at Genoa) FW Rey Volpato (at Arezzo)

For transfer, See List of transfers of Serie B - 2006/2007 season

[edit] Notable former players

See also List of Juventus players and Category:Juventus F.C. players

[edit] 1897-1946 Alberto Barberis Luigi Bertolini Carlo Bigatto Umberto Caligaris Renato Cesarini Giampiero Combi Giovanni Ferrari Alfredo Foni Ferenc Hirzer Riza Lushta Umberto Malvano Luis Monti Federico Munerati Raimundo Orsi Silvio Piola Pietro Rava Virginio Rosetta Lucidio Sentimenti Mario Varglien Giovanni Varglien József Viola

[edit] 1946-1969 Romeo Benetti Giampiero Boniperti Felice Borel Tarcisio Burgnich John Charles Helmut Haller Kurt Hamrin John Hansen Roger Magnusson Ermes Muccinelli Calle Palmér Carlo Parola Karl Aage Præst Gianluigi Roveta Sandro Salvadore Enrique Omar Sivori Gino Stacchini Giovanni Viola Čestmír Vycpálek

[edit] 1970s and 1980s Sergeij Alejnikov José Altafini Alessandro Altobelli Pietro Anastasi Roberto Bettega Massimo Bonini Roberto Boninsegna Liam Brady Sergio Brio Antonio Cabrini Fabio Capello Franco Causio Antonello Cuccureddu Zbigniew Boniek Giuseppe Furino Giuseppe Galderisi Claudio Gentile Michael Laudrup Michel Platini Paolo Rossi Rui Barros Gaetano Scirea Luciano Spinosi Stefano Tacconi Marco Tardelli Dino Zoff

[edit] 1990 and onwards Roberto Baggio Alen Bokšić Fabio Cannavaro Pierluigi Casiraghi Antonio Conte Edgar Davids Didier Deschamps Angelo Di Livio Marco Di Vaio Emerson Ciro Ferrara Andrea Fortunato Thomas Häßler Zlatan Ibrahimović Filippo Inzaghi Mark Iuliano Vladimir Jugović Júlio César Jürgen Kohler Darko Kovačević Zoran Mirković Andreas Möller Paolo Montero Angelo Peruzzi Gianluca Pessotto

Fabrizio Ravanelli Stefan Reuter Marcelo Salas Salvatore Schillaci Paulo Sousa Alessio Tacchinardi Lilian Thuram Moreno Torricelli Edwin van der Sar Gianluca Vialli Patrick Vieira Christian Vieri Gianluca Zambrotta Zinedine Zidane

[edit] Club statistics and records

Gaetano Scirea holds Juventus' official appearance record, having made 552 over the course of 14 seasons from 1974 to 1988. Giampiero Boniperti holds the record for Serie A appearances with 444. Of the current squad Alessandro Del Piero has the most official appearances with 497 (as of 26 December 2006).

Juventus' all time leading goal-scorer is Alessandro Del Piero, who scored 203 in 14 seasons from 1993 (as of 18 January 2007). Giampiero Boniperti –top scorer since 1961- comes in, in second place with 182 goals in 460 games for the club. In the 1933–34 season, Felice Placido Borel II° scored 31 goals in 34 appearances, setting the club record for Serie A goals in a single season. Ferenc Hirzer is the club's highest scorer in a single season with 35 in 26 appearances in 1925-26 season (record of Italian football). The most goals scored by a player in a single match is 6 (also record of Italian football), which has been achieved by Omar Enrique Sivori in the game against Inter of the 1960–61 season (they won 9-1).

Juventus' first ever official game was in the Third Federal Football Championship (the Italian championship predecessor of the Serie A) against F.C. Torinese. They lost 0-1. Juventus' biggest ever victory (also away victory) was 15-0 against Cento, for the second round of the national Cup, in 1926-27 season. ACF Fiorentina and US Fiumana were the victims of the Old Lady’s biggest championship win, as in 1928-29 season they were defeated 11-0. Juventus' heaviest championship defeats, during 1911-12 and 1912-13 seasons, were against Milan in 1912 (1-8) and Torino Calcio (now called Torino FC 1906) in 1913 (0-8).

The Old Lady holds a record for the most goals in a single season –including national league, national cup and European competition- with a total of 106 in 1992-93 season. The sale of Zinedine Zidane to Real Madrid of Spain in 2001 was the most expensive in football to date, costing the Spanish club over US$65 million, (approximately £48 million).

See also Juventus F.C. statistics and records

[edit] Colours and badge

Juventus have played in black and white striped shirts and white shorts (in some seasons black shorts) since 1903. Originally, they got kits from English side Notts County. Prior to this, the team played in pink shirts with polka dots (pink being the cheapest material available) with a black tie, but continual washing faded the colour so much that in 1903 they sought to replace them. The club asked one of their team members, Englishman John Savage, if he had any contacts in England who could supply new shirts in a colour that would better withstand the elements. He had a friend who lived in Nottingham, who being a Notts County supporter, shipped out the black and white striped shirts to Turin. Juventus have worn the shirts ever since.

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Juve have worn the shirts ever since, considering the colours to be aggressive and powerful. An example of how Notts helped to shape one of the world’s biggest clubs, and proof of this is that the Juventus kit is instantly recognizable the world over [28].

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The Juventus Football Club’s official emblem has undergone different -and small- modifications since the second decade of twentieth century. The last modification of the Old Lady’s badge took place in 2005. At the present time, the emblem of the team is conformed by a black-and-white oval shield -a type of Italian shield specially used by ecclesiastics-, divided in five vertical stripes: two white stripes and three black stripes (black and white are Juventus’ institutional colours since 1903) and, inside of this, are the following elements: in its superior section, the name of the society superimposed a white convex section, over golden curvature -gold for honour-.The white silhouette of a charging bull, symbol of the Comune di Torino (Municipality of Turin in Italian language), where the Old Lady was founded in the latest years of the nineteenth century, is in the inferior section of the oval shield, superimposed a black spherical triangle. The black silhouette of a mural crown above the black spherical triangle’s base is a reminiscence to "Augusta Tourinorum", the old city of the roman era which the present capital of Piedmont region is its cultural heiress.

In the past, the convex section of the emblem had a blue colour -blue is another symbol of Turin- and, furthermore, its shape was concave. The spherical triangle and the mural crown, also in the inferior section of the emblem had, considerably, a greater size with respect to the present. The two Golden Stars for Sport Excellence were located above the convexe / concave section of the Juventus’ emblem.
During the decade of 1980, the Old Lady’s official emblem was the silhouette of a zebra -symbol of the torinese football society-, to both sides of the equide’s head, the two stars of the society and, above this badge, forming an arc, its official name.

[edit] Supporters

Juventus is the most well supported football club in Italy with 11,040,000 fans (31% of Italian football fans, according to the Doxa Institute-L'Expresso’s research of April 2006),^[29] and one of the most supported football clubs in the world. Famous fans include Luciano Pavarotti, former French President François Mitterrand and the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev amongst others. Despite this, attendances at Juventus home matches average about 35,000; much less than similarly renowned European teams.

Contrastingly, demand for Juventus tickets in occasional home games held away from Turin is high. This suggests that the team has proportionally fewer dedicated supporters from their own city than other major teams, but strong support throughout the rest of Italy. Many people in Turin do not attend the games and rather watch the games on TV because of the conditions at Delle Alpi. Many fans do not like the fact that the stands are so far back from the pitch because of the track.

[edit] Rivalries

Despite (or perhaps because of) their huge popularity, Juventus have many rivals in Italy. Juventus' main rivals sometimes cite the difference in the success of the club domestically and in European competition, suggesting "influenced" refereeing in Italy as the cause.

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Significant rivalries include those with neighbours Torino, and also Internazionale, AC Milan, Fiorentina, AS Roma, and S.S. Lazio^{[citation needed]}.

Notably, matches between Juventus and Internazionale are referred to as the Derby d'Italia (Derby of Italy). Up until the 2006 Serie A match-fixing scandal, Inter and Juventus were the only two Italian clubs to have never been relegated (Juve was sent to Serie B as punishment for their involvement). As well, these two sides are the most supported in Italy. This rivalry has intensified in recent years due to disagreements between the two clubs.

[edit] Achievements

See also Juventus F.C. honours

It’s, historically ^[30], one of the most prestigious ^[2] and glorious football clubs in the world, having won a total of 51 official trophies ^[31]: 40 in Italian tournaments and 11 ^[32] in the international competitions ^[4], all recognized by Union of European Football Association and International Federation of Association Football.

The Old Lady has earned the distinction of being allowed to wear a two Golden Stars for Sport Excellence on its jersey representing the league’s victories of the bianconeri: the tenth -happened in 1957-58 season- and the twentieth, in 1981-82 season.
Juventus, the only football club in the world to has won all official international cups and championships ^[5], has received, in recognition to win the Three Major European Trophies ^[6] as first case in the history of the European football, the Targa UEFA (The UEFA Plaque) by the Union of European Football Associations in 1987.

[edit] National titles

• Italian League Championship: 27 ^[33] (record).
  • Winners: 1905; 1925-26 ^[34]; 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
  • Runners-up (19): 1903; 1904; 1906; 1937-38; 1945-46; 1946-47; 1952-53; 1953-54; 1962-63; 1973-74; 1975-76; 1979-80; 1982-83; 1986-87; 1991-92; 1993-94; 1995-96; 1999-2000; 2000-01

• Italian Cup: 9 (record).
  • Winners: 1937-38; 1941-42; 1958-59; 1959-60; 1964-65; 1978-79; 1982-83; 1989-90; 1994-95
  • Runners-up (4): 1972-73; 1991-92; 2001-02; 2003-04

• Italian Super Cup: 4
  • Winners: 1995; 1997; 2002; 2003
  • Runners-up (3): 1990; 1998; 2005

[edit] International titles ^[32]

• World Club Championship (former Intercontinental Cup): 2 ^[7]
  • Winners: 1985; 1996
  • Runners-up (1): 1973

• UEFA Champions League (former European Cup): 2 ^[35]
  • Winners: 1984-85; 1995-96
  • Runners-up (5): 1972-73; 1982-83; 1996-97; 1997-98; 2002-03

• UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup: 1
  • Winners: 1983-84
  • Runners-up (0): none

• UEFA Cup: 3 ^[36] (record).
  • Winners: 1976-77; 1989-90; 1992-93
  • Runner-up (1): 1994-95

• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1
  • Winners: 1999-2000
  • Runners-up (0): none

• European Super Cup: 2 ^[37]
  • Winners: 1984; 1996
  • Runners-up (0): none

[edit] Juventus Football Club: the company

Since 1947, during the Giovanni Agnelli’s management, Juventus Football Club is reconstitute as società per azioni - S.p. A (stock company).
Overall, the Juventus’ shares are distribuited in this way: 60% to IFIL Investment Co. –the Agnelli family’s holding-, 7.5% to Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Co. and 32.5% to other shareholders. The Old Lady, along with Lazio and Roma, is one of only three Italian clubs quotated in borsa italiana (Italian stock exchange).

[edit] Kit providers & sponsors

[edit] Kit providers

• 1979/80-1999/2000: Kappa.
• 2000/01: Ciao Web / Lotto.
• 2001/02-2002/03: Lotto.
• Since 2003/04: Nike.

[edit] Sponsors

• 1981/82-1988/89: Ariston.
• 1989/90-1991/92: Upim.
• 1992/93-1994/95: Danone.
• 1995/96-1997/98: Sony (Sony Minidisk).
• 1998/99: D+Libertà digitale / Tele+.
• 1999/2000: CanalSatellite / D+Libertà digitale / Sony.
• 2000/01: Sportal.com / Tele+.
• 2001/02: Fastweb / Tu Mobile.
• 2002/03-2003/04: Fastweb / Tamoil.
• 2004/05: Sky Sports / Tamoil.
• 2005/06-2006/07: Tamoil.

[edit] See also

• Football
• Football in Italy
• Italian Football Championship
• Derby of Italy
• Derby of Torino
• UEFA
• G-14
• FIFA 100

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Juventus.com - Official website (Italian) (English) (Chinese)

• Juventuz.com - Largest fansite in the English language including a popular forum (English)

• Iranian Juventus Fan Club (Italian) (English) (Persian) (French) (Greek) (Polish)

• Ultras Juventus - Videoblog (English)

• Juventus.hostuju.cz - czech page (Language: czech and englisch (Italian) (English) (Chinese)

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