Juventus F.C. - le Zebre: Benzilla7 & sam.

[Benzilla7]

Juventus Football Club
Benzilla7 & sam.

Serie A

UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League Perview
vs Celtic (Away)
vs Manchester United (Away)
vs Bayer Leverkusen (Away)

2010 FIFA World Cup
Italy - Preview
Groups

Transfers
Giampaolo Pazzini, Joao Moutinho and Piotr Trochowski

Interviews
Alessandro Del Piero

Misc
Hurrá Juventus - Training Session

Key
F = Friendly
L = League
C = Cup
H = Home
A = Away
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F - Catania - H
F - Genoa - A
F - Wolves - H
F - Grenoble - A
L - Siena - A
L - Milan - H
L - Napoli - H
L - Palermo - A
L - Livorno - H
L - Parma - H
L - Fiorentina - A
L - Cagliari - H
L - Atalanta - A
C - Siena - A
L - Bologna - H
L - Bari - H
L - Sampdoria - A
L - Udinese - H
L - Genoa - A
L - Roma - H
L - Catania - A
L - Chievo - H
L - Lazio - A
L - Inter - H

[Benzilla7]

[Benzilla7]

‘Sport Club Juventus’ were founded in 1897 thanks to a group of students at a local school in Turin. Two years later, they were renamed ‘Foot-Ball Club Juventus’, and it wasn’t long before the club joined the Italian Football Championship. While wearing their changed kit of white and black as opposed to the old strip of pink and black, the club won the 1905 League Championship. At this time, the team’s home ground was the Velodromo Umberto.

The year after winning the Championship, the club was divided over a move out of Turin for the club. The President at the time, Alfredo [You know his surname] turned his nose up at the idea and fled from the club with some of the team’s best players to form FBC Torino, who have become Juventus’ local rivals since that incident.

After the split, Juventus took a while to rebuild itself into the Italian giants they had once been. Having surivived the First World War, Edoardo Agnelli took the reins of Juve in 1923, and decided a new stadium was what the club needed to move forward. He may well have been right, as they won the Scudetto for the second time in 1926, thrashing Alba Roma 12-1 on aggregate. That season, Antonio Vojak was a key player, firing in a lot of the goals that saw them lift the Scudetto.

But if the fans thought the 1926 success was a great feat, they were in for a brilliant 1930s – the first few years, anyway. Players like Giovanni Ferrara and Luigi Bertolini fired the club to five consecutive league trophies from 1930-1935, Carlo Carcano masterminding most of them. However, having moved to the Stadio Comunale, Juve failed to win anymore trophies until the end of the 1940s.

When the club appointed Gianni Agnelli as honourary president after the Second World War, the club won the 1949-1950 Scudetto before winning the 1951-1952 trophy having failed to retain it in 1950-1951. In the late fifties, Juve clinched their tenth league title, becoming the first Italian club to do so, and were awarded with the Golden Star Of Excellence to wear above the badge on their shirt; something that still features on the Juve kit to this day. New forwards John Charles and Omar Sivori were at the heart of Juve’s title winning glory.

The season after that, Juventus beat off competition from Fiorentina to bag the double of Serie A and the Coppa Italia for the first time. Club legend Giampiero Boniperti, who held the team’s goal-scoring record of 182 goals in all competitions, retired in 1961. It seemed to be the end of an era, and despite winning the league in 1966-1967, the sixties were pretty unimpressive after the retirement of Boniperti.

But then in the seventies, they reignited their flair and passion with back-to-back Scudettos in 1971-1972 and 1972-1973, under the expert management of ex-player Cestmír Vycpálek. Two more league wins followed in that decade, with Giovanni Trapattoni at the helm for the second.

By 1984, Juventus had won the league three times in the eighties under Trapattoni. By then, the Old Lady had racked up 20 league titles, and were awarded with another Star of Excellence for doing so. In 1982, striker Paolo Rossi was named European Player Of The Year, before his team-mate Michel Platini won it three times in a row the year after, and the Frenchman scored the winner against Liverpool in the European Cup final of ’85. But this final was sadly overshadowed by a tragic event known as the Heysel Stadium disaster, which led to all English clubs being banned from European competitions.

After scraping another league title in ’86, the rest of the decade was unsuccessful. Napoli, whose star player was Diego Maradona, Milan and Internazionale all won league titles, leaving Juve in their shadows. In 1990, the Stadio Delle Alpi was built for the World Cup, and Juventus shortly moved in. In the mid-90s, Marcello Lippi took the position of manager at Juve, and his first season in charge proved fruitful, as the club romped to the Serie A, before clinching the Champions League on penalties the season after that.

Players like Zinedine Zidane and Edgar Davids were then brought in, and helped the club to back-to-back Serie A titles during 1996-1998, whilst winning the UEFA Super Cup and the UEFA/CSF Intercontinental Cup. The club also reached successive Champions League finals, but lost both to Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid respectively.

After a season away from the club, Lippi returned, and brought with him expensive signings like Pavel Nedved, David Trezeguet and Gianluigi Buffon, and the return of Lippi heralded the return of Juventus’ dominance. They won back-to-back Serie A titles (sound familiar?) from 2001-2003, and were part of an all-Italian Champions League final in 2003. The game ended 0-0, and penalties decided the match – Milan were triumphant.

The year after the Champions League final loss, Lippi was chosen as the new manager of the Italian national team, and was replaced at Juventus by Fabio Capello. Despite losing their most successful coach in history, Juventus continued to dominate in Italy, winning two more league titles by 2006. But it was in that very year that the club were part of the big match-fixing scandal that saw them relegated to Serie B. After several key-players left for greener pastures, legends like Trezeguet and Alessandro Del Piero stayed on at Juve to fire the club to Serie B glory and get promoted right back up to the top division.

After the club returned to Serie A, ex-Chelsea boss Claudio Ranieri was handed control of the club. His Juventus team lost to his old Chelsea side in the Champions League knock-out round, but did pretty well in that competition, beating Real Madrid. Ranieri was fired after an unsatisfactory lot of results, and was replaced by Ciro Ferrara, the current manager, for the last two games of the 2008/2009 season. The club finished in 2nd place in the Serie A, and Ferrara was appointed manager for the 2009/2010 season.

[Benzilla7]

Goalkeepers

1. Gianluigi Buffon
12. Antonio Chimenti

Defenders

2. Martin Caceres
3. Giorgio Chiellini
5. Fabio Cannavaro
6. Fabio Grosso
15. Jonathan Zebina
19. Cristian Mollinaro
21. Zdenek Grygera
22. Lorenzo Ariaudo
33. Nicola Legrottaglle

Midfielders

4. Felipe Melo
7. Hasan Salihamidzic
8. Claudio Marchisio
16. Mauro Camoranesi
18. Cristian Poulsen
22. Mohamed Sissoko
28. Diego
29. Paolo De Ceglie
30. Tiago
35. Simone Eposito
37. Fausto Rossi
39. Luca Marrone

Forwards

9. Vincenzo Iaquinta
10. Alessandro Del Piero
11. Amauri
17. David Trezeguet
20. Sebastian Giovinco
40. Ciro Immobile



Facepacks T.B.C

[Benzilla7]

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[Steve]

intensly good start, very awespiring

[sam.]

Great job with the graphics Ben.

By the way, in the history where it says 'Alfredo lalalala' that's supposed to be Alfredo ----. The first letter being D, then I, then C, then K.

(that's the only way I can spell it out )

[KingOfTheSkill09]

Cool Grpahics

[sam.]

Oh and it says 'Where the finished' in the OP
And Sadio Olimpico

[connor.]

Good luck guys
Two fantastic MM makers, this will be good

[sam.]

Originally Posted by connor.

Good luck guys
Two fantastic MM makers, this will be good

Cheers Connor, I couldn't pass up this opportunity to collab with Ben, it seemed too good to miss

[Benzilla7]

Originally Posted by KingOfTheSkill09

Cool Grpahics

Thanks mate

Originally Posted by sam.

Oh and it says 'Where the finished' in the OP
And Sadio Olimpico

King of typo's. Will edit them in a sec

Originally Posted by connor.

Good luck guys
Two fantastic MM makers, this will be good

Thanks very much mate! I'm really looking forward to working with sam

[T-Hawk94]

Ben and Sam collabing!? , this thread should be fantastic , good luck guys

[Benzilla7]

Gee thanks

[Alastairhufc]

2 of the top 5 MM writers on the forums and together


That wasn't meant to sound so wrong

[Benzilla7]

You sure? If it wasn't meant to sound wrong then why the loving smiley?

Thanks a lot though, that really means a lot

[Alastairhufc]

Originally Posted by Benzilla7

You sure? If it wasn't meant to sound wrong then why the loving smiley?

Only one thats says what I wanted to say

And Ben do you have something against Normal MM's? You always do Collabs

[DR-CGS]

Brilliant Start matee.

[Benzilla7]

Originally Posted by Alastairhufc

Only one thats says what I wanted to say

And Ben do you have something against Normal MM's? You always do Collabs

Don't have anything against them, I don't have enough time to do one on my own and I think collab's are waaay more fun. But saying I always do collab's, I've only ever done 2 MM's :O

Originally Posted by DR-CGS

Brilliant Start matee.

Thanks a lot

[RIC0]

Good Start Guys

Been some time since i got on here.

[RAUL94]

Better choice of team now Ben.
Brilliant start. Good luck you two.

[Miguel]

That OP graphic.

[Benzilla7]

Thanks everyone