Who’s kidding around Juventus fans?
Tuesday, 09 January 07, 12:50 PM
No later than five months ago, Juventus’ CEO Blanc said to sport newspaper “La Gazzetta dello Sport” that “Juventus cycle has finished and it will take 4 or 5 years to build a winning team: it’s not lack of ambition, it’s realism”. After that, Vieira, Ibrahimovic, Fifa World Player Cannavaro, Emerson and coach Capello left the club. Oil company Tamoil terminated the 10 years sponsorship contract due to Calciopoli scandal, causing to Juve a loss of more than 100 million Euros. The Bianconeri also lost UEFA money as they couldn’t play in Champions League, and everyday we read interviews where players talk about their future far from Turin.
Well, Mr. Blanc, the same person who said this in August, now has suddenly changed his mind. “Juve is the leading team, and Buffon is its key-player” we read today in “Tuttosport”, Turin sport newspaper. “We do not say how much money we’ll spend, not to give advantages to competitors, but we’ll compete very soon for Scudetto”. Well, maybe Blanc forgets last Buffon’s words just few days ago, saying that Juve will be great also without him. Even Del Piero had some interviews. Nobody had any doubt about the captain’s fidelity to black and white colours, but two days ago his fans were frozen over by these words: “Who says I’ll stay at Juve? They are definitely wrong”.
Despite nobody is sure Juventus’ top player will stay, and uncertainty about the future is on top of their thoughts, everyday you can read in newspapers a big list of players that would be joining Juventus. Mascherano, Grygera, Cassano, Cristiano Ronaldo, Huntelaar is just a selected choice of names written in newspapers and magazines front pages. Some of them even for January transfer session, some of them at the end of the season. It is quite impossible those players –except, maybe, Grygera- will join the Bianconeri, at least in January: so, why are they giving us this kind of news?
The truth is that 14 millions of Juventus fans in Italy represent a big amount of potential readers and consumers. They need to dream of something after that Calciopoli, Serie B relegation and top players’ departure depressed them. First of all, they have been convinced that Calciopoli wasn’t the right punishment for Moggi and Giraudo match-fixing, but a conspiracy planned by Inter Chairman Moratti, together with former FIGC commissioner Guido Rossi and Telecom Italia, charged to have ignored wiretaps about Inter Milan. And now the illusion of a top player for the “Old Lady” even in serie B. We hope we are wrong, maybe we’ll see one of them with the black and white jersey, but we have a doubt: who’s making fun of Juve fans?
Well, Mr. Blanc, the same person who said this in August, now has suddenly changed his mind. “Juve is the leading team, and Buffon is its key-player” we read today in “Tuttosport”, Turin sport newspaper. “We do not say how much money we’ll spend, not to give advantages to competitors, but we’ll compete very soon for Scudetto”. Well, maybe Blanc forgets last Buffon’s words just few days ago, saying that Juve will be great also without him. Even Del Piero had some interviews. Nobody had any doubt about the captain’s fidelity to black and white colours, but two days ago his fans were frozen over by these words: “Who says I’ll stay at Juve? They are definitely wrong”.
Despite nobody is sure Juventus’ top player will stay, and uncertainty about the future is on top of their thoughts, everyday you can read in newspapers a big list of players that would be joining Juventus. Mascherano, Grygera, Cassano, Cristiano Ronaldo, Huntelaar is just a selected choice of names written in newspapers and magazines front pages. Some of them even for January transfer session, some of them at the end of the season. It is quite impossible those players –except, maybe, Grygera- will join the Bianconeri, at least in January: so, why are they giving us this kind of news?
The truth is that 14 millions of Juventus fans in Italy represent a big amount of potential readers and consumers. They need to dream of something after that Calciopoli, Serie B relegation and top players’ departure depressed them. First of all, they have been convinced that Calciopoli wasn’t the right punishment for Moggi and Giraudo match-fixing, but a conspiracy planned by Inter Chairman Moratti, together with former FIGC commissioner Guido Rossi and Telecom Italia, charged to have ignored wiretaps about Inter Milan. And now the illusion of a top player for the “Old Lady” even in serie B. We hope we are wrong, maybe we’ll see one of them with the black and white jersey, but we have a doubt: who’s making fun of Juve fans?
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A “Friday Night” match in Serie B with 36 “scudetti” on the ground.
Saturday, 02 December 06, 11:25 AM
Tonight at 8.45PM (GMT +1), at “Luigi Ferraris” stadium in Genoa, there's a part of the Italian football history. Genoa vs. Juventus Turin is not only an important match for the promotion in Serie A, it’s also a total of 36 titles won by the two teams together.
Genoa in particular is the oldest existing Italian club, founded in 1893 by some Englishmen living there for working reasons. There was a doctor like J.B. Spensley, D.G. Fawcus (a manager in a textile firm) and most of all Charles Alfred Payton, British Consul in Genoa: they were pioneers in an unexplored country. The difference between Genoa and Juventus is that the Genoans won their 9 “scudetti” between 1898 and 1924, while Juve –founded in 1897 by a group of students- continued winning until last years. This doesn’t allow us to forget why these two glorious teams are now laying in second division.
Genoa, after its “golden age”, started going up and down between Serie A and Serie B, touching its lowest point a couple of years ago, when the “rosso-blu” won serie B but at the end they were relegated in third division due to a match fixing. Everybody knows what happened last summer to Juventus. Bianconeri were not only relegated with 30 points of penalization (then turned into 9), but their last two titles have also been revoked: the first not assigned at all, the second one assigned to Inter Milan.
Anyway, it’s a good thing that –despite the scandals- this year Serie B increased its average attendance: that’s not only because of Juve (the “bianconeri” recently moved to Olympic Stadium with 24000 seats capacity), but also other big cities’ teams full of history such as Bologna, Naples, Genoa are giving their contribution. Serie B is still far from the successful English second league, the “Championship”, which is the fifth league in Europe for attendance and turnover, but everybody in Italy hopes that this will be a good season, after years of depression.
Just a curiosity: two days ago in the official Juventus website (www.juventus.com) in the presentation of the match it was written that it is very important for the "scudetto". Then it has been updated, then they changed the word scudetto into "promotion"...
Genoa in particular is the oldest existing Italian club, founded in 1893 by some Englishmen living there for working reasons. There was a doctor like J.B. Spensley, D.G. Fawcus (a manager in a textile firm) and most of all Charles Alfred Payton, British Consul in Genoa: they were pioneers in an unexplored country. The difference between Genoa and Juventus is that the Genoans won their 9 “scudetti” between 1898 and 1924, while Juve –founded in 1897 by a group of students- continued winning until last years. This doesn’t allow us to forget why these two glorious teams are now laying in second division.
Genoa, after its “golden age”, started going up and down between Serie A and Serie B, touching its lowest point a couple of years ago, when the “rosso-blu” won serie B but at the end they were relegated in third division due to a match fixing. Everybody knows what happened last summer to Juventus. Bianconeri were not only relegated with 30 points of penalization (then turned into 9), but their last two titles have also been revoked: the first not assigned at all, the second one assigned to Inter Milan.
Anyway, it’s a good thing that –despite the scandals- this year Serie B increased its average attendance: that’s not only because of Juve (the “bianconeri” recently moved to Olympic Stadium with 24000 seats capacity), but also other big cities’ teams full of history such as Bologna, Naples, Genoa are giving their contribution. Serie B is still far from the successful English second league, the “Championship”, which is the fifth league in Europe for attendance and turnover, but everybody in Italy hopes that this will be a good season, after years of depression.
Just a curiosity: two days ago in the official Juventus website (www.juventus.com) in the presentation of the match it was written that it is very important for the "scudetto". Then it has been updated, then they changed the word scudetto into "promotion"...
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Gabriele
Roma, IT
Un posto diverso da Calciopoli, molto più bello!
On Wambach-Boxx-Lilly, and the US go to the semi-final!