Juventus - Chievo 3:3

The determination shown by Juventus especially in the second half of the match was not enough to bring home the 6th consecutive win and an important three points for the title race.

The match is exciting right from the start with Chievo clearly not a team to fall back and wait for Juventus. On the 1st minute Chiellini stops Luciano with a good tackle and a minute later Tiago with a good move enters the area but does not manage to stop the ball from crossing the line. On the 3rd minute Molinaro puts a precise and dangerous cross into the area with the keeper saving with some difficulty.

The 4th minute sees a great long ball by Brazzo towards Del Piero who enters the area but is stopped by Morero before managing to conclude. The first few minutes see Juventus playing well especially on the wings. On the 9th minute Pellissier passes to Sardo who enters the area but the flag is up for off-side. Two minutes later there is a free-kick for Chievo. The ball reaches Pellissier who tries a lob but puts the ball high. On the 13th minute the ball is put into the Juve area from a free-kick for Chievo but the defence clears well.

A quarter of an hour into the match Luciano puts a dangerous ball into the Juve area but the defence clears again. One minute later a good series of passes and runs lands the ball in Del Piero's feet but the captain is anticipated by the defence. On the 18th minute Juve are awarded a Free-kick following a foul on Giovinco. Del Piero takes it with the ball going inches high.

On the 19th minute the Chievo defence manages to take the ball from Iaquinta's feet at the crucial moment. One minute later Molinaro tries a shot from outside the area but the ball goes very high. On the 21st minute there is a free-kick for Chievo: Luciano shoots but Chiellini blocks well.

Salihamidzic is forced to leave the field 23 minutes into the match and is replaced by Camoranesi. One minute later a free-kick for Juve sees Del Piero shooting very high. Chievo take the lead seconds later: Pellissier enters the area unguarded, Buffon leaves the post and the Chievo striker puts the ball at the back of the net for the advantage.

On the 27th minute Grygera tries to cross into the area but hits the ball badly and sends it towards the spectators. Seconds later there is a bad foul on Giovinco at the edge of the area. Del Piero takes the free-kick: the ball goes high over the bar. On the 33rd minute there is a Good ball into the area by Camoranesi and headed by Iiaquinta is deviated into corner by the defence.

The 34th minute sees Camoranesi receiving from the corner hitting the ball with his heel towards Chiellini who shoots with the ball hitting and ending at the back of the net for the equaliser. One minute later Marchisio in a break enters the area and is stopped just in time by the keeper. Good work by Marchisio. On the 37th minute Giovinco receives from Del Piero and puts the ball towards Iaquinta who is anticpated in time by the defence.

On the 38th minute there is a Corner for Chievo: ball into the area deviated but it must be taken again. The second time it is Iaquinta who clears. One minute later: a great initiative started by Giovinco and ending with a great Del Piero shot saved by Sorrentino. On the 40th minute an extremely dangerous ball by Del Piero in the Chievo area but there is nobody to hit home. The 41st minute sees a free-kick for Juve just outside the area after a foul on Giovinco: The atomic ant takes it with the ball going inches wide.

In Juve’s best moment comes the cold shower: Pellissier shoots upon entering the area with the defence caught distracted and the ball finsihes at the back of the net for the 1-2.
The first half ends with Chievo in advantage by 2 goals to 1.

The second half sees Trezeguet coming on for Del Piero and Zebina for Grygera from the first minute but most of all there is great determination on the field by Juventus. On the 2nd minute Luciano tries to enter the area but is stopped by Molinaro and one minute later
Juve benefit of a free-kick: The ball is deviated but Sorrentino saves easily.

On the 8th minute a ball is put into the Chievo area by Marchisio, Camoranesi heads the ball which is deviated by Mantovani into his own net for the equalizer (2-2). One minute later a good ball into the Chievo area by Zebina is headed by Iaquinta with Sorrentino saving in some manner. Seconds later the ball reaches Trezeguet who shoots with the ball going inches wide.

On the 11th minute Zebina exchanges with Iaquinta who passes to Trezeguet, who in turn shoots well with Sorrentino performing a miracle. Juve are now dominating and the Chievo area is under siege. One minute later Chiellini stops the ball in the area and shoots with the ball going wide.

The 13th minute sees Tiago entering the area, putting a delicious ball towards Chiellini who heads inches wide. Two minutes later there is a corner for Chievo: Iaquinta stops and breaks out on a run. The ball is finally won by the defence. On the 18th minute Zebina enters the Chievo and tries to pass towards the centre but the ball is stopped by the defence. One minute later Marchisio tries to put a ball towards Trezeguet but the result of the cross is too long.

Juventus press on and on the 21st minute Trezeguet shoots upon receiving outside the area with the ball going slightly high. On the 28th minute the ball is put into the Chievo area from a corner taken by Camoranesi, Iaquinta heads slightly wide. One minute later Buffon saves well on a Marcolini shot.

It is the 31st minute when Trezeguet exits the Juve area with a great run passing to Camoranesi who is stopped irregularly. Two minutes later Marchisio enters the area and is pushed to the floor but the referee says to play on. On the 34th minute, however, Camoranesi puts a great ball into the area with Iaquinta who heads perfectly beating the keeper for the lead making the score 3-2.

The 35th minute sees Tiago who shoots wide upon receiving inside the Chievo area. On the 41st minute Juventus are awarded a corner: ball into the area is cleared a first time but Trezeguet maintains the attack alive passing Sorrentino. The Juve attackers have a number of tries at goal but the action ends with a foul in favour of the defence.

Three minutes later Rigoni shoots inches high sending shivers down the Juve spines but the cold shower is yet to come. On the 45th minute Juve are caught on the counter-attack with Pellissier scoring his hat-trick and the equlaiser for Chievo (3-3). The three minutes of stoppage time are not enough to score another and the match ends in a draw.

Serie A 2008/09 - 29th match day
Turin, Olympic Stadium
Sunday 5th April, 2009

JUVENTUS-CHIEVO : 3-3

Goals: Pellissier (25th), Chiellini (34th), Pellissier (43rd), Camoranesi (53rd), Iaquinta (78th), Pellissier (90th),

JUVENTUS: Buffon; Grygera (Zebina 45th) Mellberg, Chiellini, Molinaro; Salihamidzic (Camoranesi 24th), Tiago, Marchisio, Giovinco; Iaquinta, Del Piero (Trezeguet 45th). Reserves: Chimenti, Zebina, Poulsen, Marchionni, Camoranesi, Nedved, Trezeguet. Coach: Ranieri.

CHIEVO VERONA: Sorrentino; Sardo, Morero, Yepes, Mantovani; Luciano, Rigoni, Marcolini (Langella 82nd); Pinzi; Pellissier, Bogdani (Esposito 65th). Reserves: Squizzi, Scardina, Mandelli, Colucci, Italiano, Langella, Esposito. Coach: Di Carlo

REFEREE: Mazzoleni from Bergamo.

Yellow Cards: Sardo (27th)

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European and World Titles

• UEFA Champions League (former European Cup): 2
  • 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

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

• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1
  • Winners: 1999

• European Super Cup: 2
  • Winners: 1984; 1996

World-wide titles

• Intercontinental Cup: 2
  • Winners: 1985; 1996
  • Runners-up (1): 1973

National Titles

• Serie A / Italian Football Championship: 27 (record).

• Winners: 1905; 1925–26;^[66] 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; 1999–00; 2000–01

• Coppa Italia: 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

• Supercoppa Italiana: 4

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

• Serie B: 1

• Winners: 2006–07

Honours

Historically, Juventus is Italy's most successful team, having won a total of 40 trophies, and one of the most prestigious football clubs in the world, having won a total of 11 official international trophies -with a record of 9 UEFA competition titles and 2 World-wide titles won-, making them the third most winning team in Europe and sixth in the world for official international club competitions won, all recognized by Union of European Football Association, one of the six continental football confederations, and International Federation of Association Football.

Juventus have won the Italian League Championship a record twenty-seven times. and have the record of consecutive triumphs in the football's premier club competition (5, since 1930–31 season to 1934–35 season). They have also won the Italian Cup nine times, holding the record number of wins -overall and consecutives- for the latter.

The Old Lady has earned the distinction of being allowed to wear a two Golden Stars for Sport Excellence (it. Stelle d'Oro al Merito Sportivo) on its shirt representing the league's victories of the bianconeri: the tenth, achieved during the 1957–58 season and the twentieth, in 1981–82 season. Also, Juventus is the only Italian team has achieved two times the national double (winning the Italian top tier division and the national cup competition in the same season), in 1959–60 and 1994–95 seasons.

Juventus, the only football club in the world to have won all official international cups and championships,^[10] has received, in recognition to win the three major European club competitions,^[13] as first case in the history of the European football, The UEFA Plaque by the Union of European Football Associations in 1987. They have won the UEFA Cup three times, which is a joint record they share with Liverpool and Internazionale.

The Torinese side was placed 7th -and first between all Italian clubs- in the FIFA Clubs of the 20th Century's selection on 23 December 2000.

Juventus has been proclaimed World's Club Team of the Year twice (1993 and 1996) and was ranked in the 3th place -and first between all Italian clubs- in the All-Time Club World Ranking (1991-2008 period) by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics.

Stadium

For more details on this topic, see Stadio Olimpico di Torino, Stadio Delle Alpi and Stadio Motovelodromo Umberto I.

After the first two years (1897 and 1898) in which Juventus played the Parco del Valentino and Parco Cittadella, the matches took place internal Piazza d'Armi Stadium until 1908, except in 1905, the first year of the scudetto, and in 1906, years in which it played quickly Corso Re Umberto.

Later, from 1909 to 1922, Juventus played its internal competitions at Corso Sebastopoli Camp, and then move from the following year until 1933 to Corso Marsiglia Camp, where he won four league titles. At the end of 1933 began to play the new stadium Benito Mussolini (former Stadio Comunale Vittorio Pozzo and finally Stadio Olimpico di Torino), inaugurated in view of the 1934 World Championships. In that stage played 890 league matches for 57 years until 1990. Even then continued to train at this stage, until the City of Turin, in 15 July 2003, gave him a royalty-free basis to Turin, giving the same "Delle Alpi" to the company.

Stadio Delle Alpi, Juventus' home stadium since 1990.

Beginning in 1990 and until the 2005-06 season, the Torinese side has contested all home matches at Stadio Delle Alpi, which was built during the World Cup Italy 1990, although in very rare circumstances, the club instead played some home games in other stadia such as Renzo Barbera at Palermo, Dino Manuzzi at Cesena and the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza at Milan.

In August 2006, the bianconeri returned to play in the Stadio Comunale, now with the stage name of Stadio Olimpico, after the restructuring of Stadio Delle Alpi during the Winter Olympic Games.

In November 2008 Juventus announced that they will invest around €100 million to build a new stadium on the site of the old Delle Alpi ground. Featuring a shopping complex, the facility will be ultra-modern, secure and open seven days a week. Unlike the Delle Alpi there won't be a running track, instead the pitch will only be 8.5 meters away from the stands.

The new stadium will hold 40,700 fans and there will be 120 executive boxes. A shopping area as well as parking for 5,300 vehicles. A Juventus museum is also planned. Naming rights have been snapped up by sports marketing company Sportfive and they will be responsible for coming up with a title. Work is set to begin during Spring 2009 and everything completed for the start of the 2011/12 season.

Colours, badge and nicknames

Juventus have played in black and white striped shirts, with white shorts, sometimes black shorts since 1903. Originally, they played in pink shirts with a black tie, which only occurred due to the wrong shirts being sent to them, the father of one of the players made the earliest shirts, but continual washing faded the color so much that in 1903 the club sought to replace them.

Juventus asked one of their team members, Englishman John Savage, if he had any contacts in England who could supply new shirts in a color 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.

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Juve have worn the shirts ever since, considering the colors to be aggressive and powerful.

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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 before 2004–05 season. At the present time, the emblem of the team is conformed to a black-and-white oval shield; a type of Italian shield specially used by ecclesiastics, it is divided in five vertical stripes: two white stripes and three black stripes, 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 is in the inferior section of the oval shield, superimposed a black old French shield; the charging bull is a symbol of the Comune di Torino.

There is also a 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 color (another symbol of Turin) and, furthermore, its shape was concave. The old French shield 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 convex & concave section of Juventus' emblem. During the 1980s, the club emblem was the silhouette of a zebra, to both sides of the equide's head, the two golden stars and, above this badge, forming an arc, the clubs name.

During its history, the club has acquired a number of nicknames, la Vecchia Signora (the Old Lady) being the best example. The "old" part of the nickname is a pun on Juventus which means "youth" in Latin. It was derived from the age of the Juventus' star players towards the middle of 1930s. The "lady" part of the nickname is what fans of the club referred to it as affectionately prior to the 1930s. The club is also nicknamed la Fidanzata d'Italia (the Girlfriend of Italy), because over the years they have received a high level of support from Southern Italian immigrant workers (particularly from Naples and Palermo), who arrived in Turin to work for Fiat since the 1930s. Other nicknames include; i bianconeri (the black-and-whites) and le zebre (the zebras) in reference to Juventus' colors.

League Dominance

Fiat owner Edoardo Agnelli gained control of the club in 1923, building a new stadium. This helped the club to their second league championship by the 1925–26 season beating Alba Roma with an aggregate score of 12–1, Antonio Vojak's goals were essential that season. The 1930s proved to be even more fruitful, the club won five consecutive league titles from 1930 through to 1935, most were under coach Carlo Carcano with star players such as Raimundo Orsi, Luigi Bertolini, Giovanni Ferrari and Luis Monti amongst others.

Juventus had a new ground in the form of the Stadio Comunale, though for the rest of the 1930s and the majority of the 1940s they were unable to recapture championship dominance.

After the Second World War, Gianni Agnelli was put in place as honorary president. The club added two more scudetto championship's to their name in the 1949–50 and 1951–52 seasons, the latter of which was under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver.

Two new strikers were signed during 1957–58, in the form of Welshman John Charles and Italo-Argentine Omar Sivori, playing alongside longtime member Giampiero Boniperti. That season saw Juventus awarded with the Golden Star for Sport Excellence to wear on their shirt after becoming the first Italian side to win ten league titles. In the same season, Omar Sivori became the first ever player at the club to win the European Footballer of the Year. The following season they beat Fiorentina to complete their first league and cup double, winning Serie A and Coppa Italia. Boniperti retired in 1961, he retired as the all-time top scorer at the club, with 182 goals in all competitions; a club record which would last for 45 years.

For the rest of the decade the club won the league just once more in 1966–67, However, the 1970s would see Juventus further solidify their strong position in Italian football. Under former player Čestmír Vycpálek they won the scudetto in 1971–72 and 1972–73, with players such as Roberto Bettega, Franco Causio and José Altafini breaking through. During the rest of the decade they won the league two more times, with defender Gaetano Scirea contributing significantly. The latter of which was won under Giovanni Trapattoni, the man who would help the club's domination continue on in the early part of the 1980s.

Juventus History

Juventus were founded as Sport Club Juventus in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, but were renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later. The club joined the Italian Football Championship during 1900, wearing their original pink and black kit. Juventus first won the league championship in 1905 while playing at their Velodromo Umberto I ground and wearing their famous black and white stripes inspired by English side Notts County.

There was a split at the club in 1906, after some of the staff considered moving Juve out of Turin. President Alfredo Dick was unhappy with this and left with some prominent players to found FBC Torino which in turn spawned the Derby della Mole. Juventus spent much of this period steadily rebuilding after the split, surviving the First World War.

Juventus

Juventus Football Club (from Latin iuventus: youth, pronounced [juˈvɛntus]), commonly referred to as Juventus and familiarly as Juve, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont. The club was founded in 1897 and have spent their entire history, with the exception of the 2006–07 season, in the top flight First Division (since 1929, called Serie A).
Juventus is the most successful team in the history of Italian football. Overall, the club have won 51 official trophies, more than any other team in the country; 40 in Italy, which is also a record and 11 in European and world competitions. The Old Lady is the third most successful club in Europe and the sixth in the world with the most international titles officially recognised by one of the six continental football confederations and FIFA. The club was the first Italian and Southern European side to win the UEFA Cup. In 1985, Juventus, the only team in the world to have won all official international cups and championships became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major UEFA club competitions.

In Italy, Juventus is the club which has the biggest fan base, having also one of the largest numbers of supporters in the world, with a total of 170 million Juventus's supporters (it. tifosi) worldwide. The club is a founding member of the European Club Association, which was formed after the dissolution of the G-14, a collection of Europe's most elite clubs. The Torinese side is also recognized for its huge contribution to the Italian national team.
At present, the bianconeri play their home games at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino. The stadium which the club owns, Stadio delle Alpi is undergoing long-term structural changes and will not be completed for use until 2011.