Juventus

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Club Information

Juventus were founded in 1897 and play in Serie A. Juventus is the most successful team in the history of Italian football. They play their home matches at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino, which has a capacity of 27, 994. They also share the ground with Torino. Juventus are currently managed by Ciro Ferrara, and captained by Alessandro Del Piero. Fabio Capello England became manager of Juventus in 2004, and led Juventus to two more Serie A titles. However, in May 2006, Juventus became one of the five clubs linked to a Serie A match fixing scandal, the result of the which saw the club relegated to Serie B for the first time in its history. The club was also stripped of the two titles won under Capello in 2005 and 2006. Some star players didn't want to play in Serie A so Gianluca Zambrotta moved to Barcelona. Fabio Cannavaro moved to Real Madrid and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Inter.

Major Honours

Serie A - Winners 27 times. Runner Up 20 times

Coppa Italia - Winners 9 times. Runner Up 4 times

Uefa Champions League - Winners 2 times. Runner Up 5 times

Squad

No.	Position	Name	Information
1	GK	Gianluigi Buffon	1st Vice Captain
12	GK	Antonio Chimenti
13	GK	Alex Manninger
2	DRLC	Martin Cáceres	On loan from Barcelona
3	DLC	Giorgio Chiellini	2nd Vice Captain
15	DR	Jonathan Zebina
19	DL	Christian Molinaro
21	DR	Zdeněk Grygera
23	DC	Lorenzo Ariaudo
30	DC	Nicola Legrottaglie
5	DC	Fabio Cannavaro
29	WBL	Paolo De Ceglie
4	DMC	Felipe Melo
22	DMC	Mohamed Sissoko
18	DMC	Christian Poulsen
8	MRLC	Claudio Marchisio
30	MRLC	Tiago
7	MR	Hasan Salihamidžić
16	AMRL	Mauro Camoranesi
20	AMRL	[Sebastian Giovinco]
28	AMC	Diego
9	FC	Vincenzo Iaquinta
10	FC	Alessandro Del Piero	Captain
11	FC	Amauri
17	FC	David Trézéguet