Juventus: first, but in crisis!
Wednesday, 14 February 07, 04:13 PM
Last Saturday Juventus was in Vicenza and 20’ before the end of the match it was 2-0 ahead. In just six minutes, Greek defender Evangelois Nastos and youngster Gabriele Paonessa scored for the draw, and the Bianconeri had no reaction and the only occasion was a free kick that Del Piero threw away. After Napoli’s win behind closed doors, Juve is still first but the Azzurri reached them on the top.
Trezeguet and Camoranesi left out, a defence that is still the second in all Serie B but doesn’t work as it should in the away games are the reasons why French coach is on trial. Deschamps talked yesterday to his players, but no one of the board of directors were present. For some media, Deschamps’ position is bad, some of them points out Marcello Lippi as his successor even before June.
We think that after Calciopoli, all that happens around Juventus has been amplified. The Turin club is not playing good football, but chances to be promoted are still high and many players are injured or are about to come back. And new executives, despite the announces on the newspapers, are really working in order to have a competitive team, at least for fourth place, in next year’s Serie A. And we think that will make it.
Another good news in this bad period for Juve, is that the new stadium project has been approved by the board of directors and will be submitted to FIGC. The new stadium, built on the old “Delle Alpi”, will have 45000 seats and will be ready for –eventually, if Italy will be designated on April 18th- Euro 2012.
Trezeguet and Camoranesi left out, a defence that is still the second in all Serie B but doesn’t work as it should in the away games are the reasons why French coach is on trial. Deschamps talked yesterday to his players, but no one of the board of directors were present. For some media, Deschamps’ position is bad, some of them points out Marcello Lippi as his successor even before June.
We think that after Calciopoli, all that happens around Juventus has been amplified. The Turin club is not playing good football, but chances to be promoted are still high and many players are injured or are about to come back. And new executives, despite the announces on the newspapers, are really working in order to have a competitive team, at least for fourth place, in next year’s Serie A. And we think that will make it.
Another good news in this bad period for Juve, is that the new stadium project has been approved by the board of directors and will be submitted to FIGC. The new stadium, built on the old “Delle Alpi”, will have 45000 seats and will be ready for –eventually, if Italy will be designated on April 18th- Euro 2012.
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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!