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Original colors of Juventus clothing were pink and black; in 1903 they changed the colors to black and white striped shirts, with white shorts, sometimes black shorts.

One of their team members -John Savage had a friend in England, who provided the team with new black and white striped shirts. Juventus players are still pleased with aggressive and powerful colors.

The main emblem of the club the Old Lady’s badge appeared in 1920 for the first time, since then it was slightly changed. Now the emblem of the team is a black-and-white oval shield, divided in five vertical stripes: two white stripes and three black stripes. “Juventus” stays on a white curved line, over golden curving lime, symbolizing honor. The white outline of the charging bull (a symbol of the Comune di Torino) with a crown over it, is on the black oval shield in the lower section of the emblem. The two Golden Stars for Sport Excellence crown the Juventus’ emblem.

The club has different nicknames, la Vecchia Signora- the Old Lady is the most popular. The “old” part of the nickname is a pun on Juventus which means “youth” in Latin. The other nickname is la Fidanzata d’Italia -the Girlfriend of Italy, due to great love and respect of Southern Italian immigrant workers who arrived in Turin to work for Fiat. Other nicknames are: i bianconeri -the Black-and-Whites and le zebre – the Zebras because of Juventus’ colors.

There is a great number of Juve songs, which fans sing when the club scores a goal.

The official song of the club is as following:

Come on juve, come on
this beautiful lady is black and white
go ahead juve, go ahead juve
only juve is great, go ahead juve

You’re the team of my heart
always 11 heroes on the field
you win the impossible and prevail
and we are behind you

You got another star on your chest
thousands of hands rising to the sky for you… together
the wave of a magic hour will unleash

Nights of cup winners
endless nights
great is the emotion you bestow
when you win for us

Let’s all go to the stadium to dream
waiting to shout goal… together
the wave of a magic hour will unleash.

Juventus Primavera Squad is the Juventus youth football team that consists of young football players (the age is from 15 to 20 years old).

Juventus Primavera squad is the first step in the future career team for the young talented people, it is the first stage in trial and promotion for the players for the first team. For the players taking part in Primavera Squad means a great chance to show themselves and be registered and given a first team squad number.

Juventus Primavera squad also takes part in the Viareggio World Tournament, which is considered to be one of the most prestigious U-20 championships in the world. The players of Primavera squad won 3 and also reached the record of 4 finals in this competition.

Now the coach of Juve’s Primavera is Giovanni Bucaro, appointed in the summer of 2010. A number of his players have already been part of the match day squads of the first team.

The most prominent young players of Primavera worth mentioning are:

Boniperti is a quickly improving and talented central midfielder.

Vittorio Ferrero is a skillful and impressive central defender.

Camilleri plays greatly and shows exceptional speed.

Frederik Sorensen is an impressive fullback he can  also play as a second striker.

Juventus youth program, developing players from the youth team and  giving them chances in the full squad, forms a great start for the young football stars to start magnificent career.

Juventus football club is the best supported club in Italy, the club has more than 12 million fans and it is considered to be one of the most supported football clubs in the world, with 180 million supporters.

The first organized groups of fans were Venceremos and Autonomia Bianconera. Later Fossa dei Campioni and Panthers were founded.

One of the most prominent groups was the Gruppo Storico Fighters founded by Beppe Rossi, a greatly important figure among the Juventus fans.

There were also extreme groups: Viking and Nucleo Armato Bianconero. They were really ultra groups, fighting against other supporters.

Arancia Meccanica was founded by old Fighters, Indians and Gioventù Bianconera members and shortly after was renamed to Drughi, the most important supporter group in the club history.

Black And White Fighters Gruppo Storico was formed in 1997 by Fighters, Drughi and La Curva Scirea.

Nowadays there are such organized Juve supporters as:  Curva Sud, Viking Juve, Arditi, Nucleo, Tradizione Bianconera, Gruppo Marche (GM), Gruppo Homer (GH), and many others.

The Juventus youth program is best sport program for young in Italy for producing young football talents. It was a first step for many successful careers in the Italian top flight.

Juventus Youth Sector is youth organization of the football club. The Youth Sector consists of squads divided by age groups that train at Juventus Center.

The Youth Sector contains six squads: ‘Primavera’, ‘Berretti’, ‘Allievi’, ‘Giovanissimi’, ‘Esordienti’ and ‘Pulcini.

Juventus pays great attention for working with young people. The Youth Sector has developed talented footballers like Raffaele Palladino, Sebastian Giovinco, Claudio Marchiso and many others.

The youth program is famous for its contribution to the Italian national teams. The Primavera squad had an extremely successful period from 2004 to 2006 winning all age-group competitions. The Primavera Squad consists of footballers between 15 and 20 years old. The team is the fourth in Italy with the most number of titles in the Primavera Championship.

Like other youth clubs, Juventus youth club controls several soccer clubs, some satellite clubs for  8 to 16 year-old boys who want to improve their sport skills.

Juventus, one of the most successful football clubs, is placed highly in the All -Time Club World Ranking and its achievements are due not only to effective management and organization, but certainly to the key players, who impact on Juventus greatly.

Ciro Ferrara is no doubt one of the key players of the club. He started his career at hometown club Napoli, and then went to Turin. A strong, sometimes uncontrollable centre back, Ferrara won in a team six scudetti.  His achievements are also the 1996 Champions League, an Intercontinental Cup, the InterToto Cup, a European Super Cup, an Italian Cup and four Italian SuperCups.

Roberto Baggio is known worldwide for the penalty miss in the 1994 World Cup Final, but without, Roberto Baggio Italy would’ve been one of the most famous clubs. It was he who scored76 goals from 91 penalties- an Italian record. He played in a club for 12 years and won five scudetti, and was runner-up five more times His achievements are the Champions League in 1996, UEFA Cup in 1993.

Antonio Conte was a captain in a period of prolonged success, a legend of Juventus. He won the Italian Cup in 1995, had medals for 4 Italian SuperCups, the Intertoto Cup, the UEFA SupeCup and the Inter Continental Cup.

Gaetano Scirea is the legendary captain, one of only five men to win all possible cups. He played in more than 450 games as centre back for club .He deserves a great respect for winning the 1982 World Cup. His won seven scudetti, two Italian Cups, a UEFA Cup, Cup Winners Cup, European Cup, UEFA Super Cup and an Intercontinental Cup.

Alessandro Del Piero is also a legend of our time. The club’s all-time leading professional scorer.  His achievements are seven scudetti, an Italian Cup, four Italian SuperCups, the 2007 Serie B title, 1996 Champions League, a UEFA Super Cup, Intertoto Cup and the 1996 Intercontinental Cup. He is a three time Italian Player of the Year and a World Cup winner with Italy in 2006.

Juventus is considered being one of the most prominent and successful football clubs in the world and Italy’s greatest club.   It scores 51 official competitions, more than any other team in Italy; 40 competitions in the Italian First Division, and 11 official international competitions.

The club achieved the UEFA first position three times and is recognized by FIFA confederation as sixth in the world by number of the titles and honors.

The honor of two Golden Stars for Sport Excellence (on the shirts) symbolizes Juventus league victories.  The 1957-1958 and 1981-1982 seasons   brought this honor to the team as well as the national cup competition in the 1959–60 and 1994–95 seasons.

The national titles of the team also include:  Italian Football Championship Series A- 27times they became winners, Coppa Italia – for 9times, Super Coppa Italiana  – for 4 times.

Most significant European titles are European Champions’ Cup and UEFA Champions League – 2 times, UEFA Cup -3, UEFA Super Cup- 2.

The best performances in World-wide competitions are 2 winnings in Intercontinental Cup and 1 in Runners-up.

Juventus team was publicly announced World’s Club Team of the Year in 1993 and 1996. The club was awarded the 3rd place during1991–2009 years in the All -Time Club World Ranking by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics.

Juventus was founded by students of the Massimo D’Azeglio School in Turin. They started playing in pink and black shirts, and then turned to black and white stripes. Juventus won the league for the first time in 1905.

The Agnelli family took control of the club and Eduardo Agnelli became the president of the club and built a new stadium. From 1930 to 1935 Juventus won five significant league titles; the coach at that time was Carlo Carcano.

In 1966 – 1967 the club won the league just once more. They won the scudetto in 1971 – 1972 and in 1972 – 1973 with players Franco Causio, Jose Altafini and Bettega Roberto.

In the 1977 UEFA Cup final Juventus defeated Athletic Club and deserved a first European cup.  Such stars as Michel Platini, Paolo Rossi, and Zbigniew Boniek continued clubs domestic domination and strengthened the position of the club. In 1984 they won the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and in1985 European Champion Clubs’ Cup.

In 1991 Juventus beat AFC Ajax on penalties in the final; and became the champions of the UEFA League.

Since then they have lost three finals and in 2006 after Series A match-fixing scandal were relegated to Series B.

After their return to Series A in the 2007-2008 seasons Claudio Ranieri managed Juventus for two seasons. Juventus beat Real Madrid in home and away matches, but lost in the round to Chelsea. Ciro Ferrara was appointed as the coach was for the 2009–10 seasons.

Ciro Ferrara as head coach proved to be however unsuccessful, Juventus was knocked out of UEFA Champions League and Coppa Italia, and just lying on the sixth place in the league table at the end of January 2010.

Juventus Football Club (from Latin youth) founded by students of the Massimo D’Azeglio school in Turin on the1 November 1897. The third oldest sport club in Italy it has gone on to be one of the most successful clubs in not just Italy but the world. Nicknames: Bianconeri (White and Blacks- because of wearing black and white stripes on the shirts with white shorts, sometimes black shorts since 1903), Vecchia Signora previous official emblem (Old Lady).

The official emblem of the team is a black-and-white oval shield with five vertical stripes: two white stripes and three black stripes, inside which are the following elements – the name of the society in a curving section, the charging bull and the mural crown.

During its history, the club has acquired a number of titles: it has won a record 27 Serie A titles, 1 UEFA Intertoto Cup, 9 Coppa Italia, 2 UEFA Champions League, 4 Supercoppa Italiana, 1 Serie B, 1 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, 3 UEFA Cup, 2 UEFA Super Cup and 2 Intercontinental Cup.

Most prominent club records are Alessandro Del Piero (273) has the most goals in history of the club (more than 270); Juventus won 15-0 Italian Cup, with Cento FC on the 6 January 1927; record defeat happened on the17 November 1912 in League A with Torino FC, the score was 8-0.

The club is currently managed by Luigi  Del Neri and is captained by Alessandro Del Piero.
Juventus are the best supported football club in Italy, with over 12 million fans.It is considered to be one of the most supported football clubs in the world, with a number of fans over 180 million. Demand for Juventus tickets is great because it is greatly supported in all the parts of Italy.