Founded in 1897 as Sport Club Juventus by a group of young Torinese students, among them, who was their first president, Eugenio Canfari, and his brother Enrico, author of the company's historical memory ; they are managed by the industrial Agnelli family since 1923, which constitutes the oldest sporting partnership in Italy, thus making Juventus the first professional club in the country.

His success had seen the Marseille manager linked to a return to Juventus where former president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli urged the club to bring back Deschamps to replace Ciro Ferrara.

After scoring a goal in Juventus ' final match of the 2006 – 07 Serie B season against Spezia, Trezeguet made a gesture toward the club president, making a number 15 with his fingers – the number of goals he scored throughout the Serie B season – which was followed by a hand gesture which, in Italian, means " I'm out of here.

After retirement from professional football, Boniperti has been a president of Juventus and a deputy to the European Parliament.

He served as a CEO of Fiat from 1970 – 1976 and senator of the Italian Republic, from 1976 to 1979, and was the honorary chairman of the Juventus soccer team, the past president of the Italian Football Association and later chairman of Italian carmaker Fiat from early 2003 until his death from lung cancer aged 69.

On 17 June 2007, Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas confirmed that Tiago's departure from Lyon was imminent with both Juventus F. C.

The negotiations between the player and the club had a violent end when Tiago forcibly locked Juventus president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli inside a toilet stall – the chairman was finally rescued by captain Alessandro Del Piero, more than an hour later.

The club were still wearing black and white stripes ( similar to Juventus ) at this point, and the first president under the name Unione Sportiva Lecce was Luigi Lopez y Rojo.

Piero Dusio continued financing racing car projects, but the expenses in engineering the complex 202MM almost ruined Cisitalia ( 1947 ), as well as involved the Juventus corporation ( where Dusio was president 1941-1947 ).

Except for a brief two-year stint with Sporting de Gijón, when most key players left the club in support of director of football – later president – Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, he was on all important moments of the rebirth of the club: the 20-year league draught end in 1978 – 79, the first UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup final against Juventus F. C.

Agnelli was also closely connected with Juventus, the most renowned Italian football club, of which he was a fan and the direct owner.

He is the Chairman of Fiat and the Chairman and CEO of Exor, an investment company controlled by the Agnelli family, which owns Juventus F. C., Cushman & Wakefield and SGS.

* Istituto Finanziario Industriale, the principal holding company of the Agnelli Group which includes 30 % of the Fiat and 60 % of Juventus F. C ..

Well known for his energy and tireless runs, refined dribbling, as well as his powerful shooting and goal scoring abilities, Nedvěd was nicknamed Furia Ceca (" The Czech Fury ", an Italian wordplay on the phrase Furia Cieca, meaning " Blind Fury ") by Juventus fans.

After press speculation linking him to various clubs, including a move back to Arsenal, on 2 August 2006, Vieira officially signed a four-year deal for Internazionale in a deal to be worth € 9. 5 million, less than half of the € 20 million fee Juventus had paid just 12 months prior.

Juventus manager Marcello Lippi once described him as " my one-man engine room.

Under restriction of a maximum of two foreign players in the team, of which the club had Polish midfielder Zbigniew Boniek and Michel Platini, Juventus initially lent him to newly promoted Rome club Lazio for a single season, something that Laudrup had not been informed about before signing for Juventus.

In 2001 he was transferred to Juventus ( for cash plus Darko Kovačević ) where Salas would endure the worst moments of his career ; he was hampered by injuries, allowing him to participate in only 14 games and scoring just 2 goals.

The respect Charles earned from Juventus fans was shown when, on the occasion of the club's centenary in 1997 they voted him to be the best-ever foreign player to play for their team.

Charles ' accomplishments with Juventus led to him being voted ' the greatest foreign player ever in Serie A ', ahead of Maradona, Michel Platini, Marco Van Basten and Zinedine Zidane – this in 1997, 34 years after his last appearance in the league.

He played a role of midfielder / defender and his performance was so good that the then Juventus coach Marcello Lippi invited him to join Juve.

On 9 December 2009, Trezeguet scored his 168th goal for Juventus in a 4 – 1 defeat to Bayern Munich in the 2009 – 10 UEFA Champions League, making him the club's highest ever foreign goalscorer, surpassing Omar Sívori's total of 167 goals.

His second season with Juventus really put him on the map, he was only just 20 years old, but scored 27 goals during that season, he finished above Valentino Mazzola as the league's topscorer.

He made his debut in professional Italian football with Como, to which Juventus had sent him to gain experience after three operations on his knees, as a right wing, where his small build would not be a hindrance.

He made 23 appearances and scored eight goals in Serie A, and six goals in ten matches in Europe, making him joint topscorer for Juventus that season along with Alen Bokšić.

During this time Leeds broke their record transfer payment to re-sign John Charles from Juventus, only to sell him on for the same amount to A. S. Roma after only a few matches.

This led to speculation linking him with Juventus, despite his past differences with Luciano Moggi.

Juventus coach Carlo Monetti replaces him with David Trezeguet ( David Tresaga in the anime ), who scores the winning goal as Juventus beat Parma 1-0.

Garrincha was subject to numerous transfer attempts by rich European clubs like Juventus of Turin, Italy who tried to sign him in 1954.

Internazionale, AC Milan and Juventus of Italy considered jointly signing him in 1963 ( he would have to spend a season with each ); a deal that would have been unique in football.

" Juventus played Sampdoria, Robbie was playing, so I was marking him and hovering around him, hoping he would say something ," Platt remembers.

Near the end of the season, Juventus reportedly rejected a € 70 million bid for him from Real Madrid, which was later revealed to be a publicity stunt initiated by Ibrahimović's agent, Mino Raiola, in order to increase his market value.

In the 2005 – 06 season, Juventus fans often got frustrated with him due to his anonymous presence in certain important games such as the Champions League defeat to Arsenal.

In 1998, Juventus decided to sign him, but with great midfielders like Antonio Conte, Didier Deschamps, and Zinédine Zidane ahead of him he only collected 5 appearances for the Turin club.

The 1965 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final was played on 23 June 1965 in Turin at the Stadio Comunale di Torino in front of the home crowd of Juventus F. C.

On January 25, 1909 La Stampa wrote: " E la Juventus godrà di un certo riposo, che le auguriamo foriero di miglioramento di stile di gioco, e preludio necessario ad assicurarsi l ' altro campionato, quello più ambito ancora: il Campionato italiano!

He lost his starting place to Mark Hughes for the semi-final clash with Juventus at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino, which ended in a 2 – 1 defeat.

* 2006 Serie A scandal (" Calciopoli "): In May 2006, perhaps the largest match fixing scandal in the history of Italian Serie A football was uncovered by Italian Police, implicating league champions Juventus, and powerhouses AC Milan, Fiorentina, and Lazio.

" (" Juventus will enjoy some rest ; we hope that this rest will improve the play style and will be the necessary prelude to win the other championship, the most coveted one: the Italian Championship !").

Zoff's career got off to an inauspicious start, when at the age of fourteen he had trials with Inter Milan and Juventus F. C., but was rejected due to a lack of height.

After his retirement as a player, Zoff went into coaching, joining the technical staff at Juventus, where he was head coach from 1988 to 1990.

To mention a few of the memorable milestones on the road to the scudetto: a decisive win against Juventus ( 2 – 0 ), with a goal scored by Elkjær after having lost a boot in a tackle just outside the box, set the stage early in the championship ; an away win over Udinese ( 5 – 3 ) ended any speculation that the team was losing energy at the midway point ; three straight wins ( including a hard fought 1 – 0 victory against a strong AS Roma side ) served notice that the team had kept its polish and focus intact during their rival's final surge ; and a 1 – 1 draw in Bergamo against Atalanta secured the title with a game in hand.

Liverpool reached the European Cup final again in 1985, against Juventus at the Heysel Stadium.

and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.

He considered Serie A " the biggest league at the time " and preferred a move to either Juventus or Internazionale.

In the 2008 – 09 season, Udinese had a mixed bag of results in Serie A with a 3 – 1 win at Roma and a 2 – 1 win over Juventus, but 10 losses against Reggina, Cheivo, and Torino dented their hopes of Champions League qualification.

The 1985 European Cup final against Liverpool at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels should have been the crowning moment of Platini's Juventus career, but was instead overshadowed by the Heysel Stadium disaster in which 39 people died, and 600 more were injured.

Following the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Platini spent another season at Juventus before retiring from football in June 1987.

The highlight of Nakata's career at Roma came on May 6, 2001 in the Serie A match against Juventus at Stadio Delle Alpi.

After leaving Arsenal in 2005, he spent one season at Juventus before joining Internazionale in 2006, following Juventus ' relegation for their part in a match-fixing scandal.

In his first season with Juventus, at just 20 years old, Corini played 25 times and scored one goal.

He scored again for Celtic in the Champions league campaign with the solitary goal in a 1 – 0 victory over Porto and again from the penalty spot against Juventus in a thrilling 4 – 3 victory at Celtic Park.

* UEFA Champions League – AC Milan wins 3-2 on penalties over Juventus, after a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford.

Mel Charles The former Arsenal, Swansea, Cardiff and Wales player came to Port from Cardiff City and he was paid more at Port than he was at Arsenal because local millionaire Graham Bourne was at the club. He was the brother of former Leeds and Juventus superstar John Charles and Mel also won 31 international caps for Wales scoring six goals.

Dragoslav Šekularac ( retired ), who was runners-up with Yugoslavia at 1960 European Football Championship, Vladimir Petrović " Pižon " ( retired ), Vladimir Jugović, who was two times European Champion ( with Red Star & Juventus ), Nemanja Vidić, who won with Manchester United the Champions League, as well as Dejan Stanković with Inter Milan, and Dušan Savić ( retired ).

They had a poor start, losing back to back games against Manchester United at home and Juventus away.

Arguably two of FCB's greatest games came next as they held Manchester United to a 1 – 1 draw at Old Trafford and claimed a 2 – 1 victory over Juventus at St. Jakob-Park.