Back To Serie A!!! (2 Viewers)

Alltagsheld

Senior Member
Oct 10, 2006
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#2
First of all I like to

thank the team for their

will and great performances
,

this was a difficult test and they passed it very well and

congrats to all my fellow Juventini

around here who supported

the squad in such a difficult

situation.
 

Yamen

Senior Member
Apr 20, 2007
11,809
#4
Thanks everyone - Hope that makes a great boost for a great signings for the next season.. Wow, what a ride.. All the patience and long nights.. It has all come to an end :) Congratulations Juventini's World Wide..

More to come..
 

Mark

The Informer
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Dec 19, 2003
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Thanks to the players that stayed for this difficult adventure and also to the Juve fans here who didn't give up and continued posting here. :pint:
 
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ReBeL

The Jackal
Jan 14, 2005
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    Juventus promoted back to Serie A in style


    MILAN, May 19 (Reuters) - Juventus were promoted back to Serie A on Saturday with three games to spare after a thumping 5-1 win at Arezzo.

    Didier Deschamps's side, demoted from the top flight last year because of a match-fixing scandal, top the Serie B table with 82 points.

    Captain Alessandro Del Piero netted his 19th and 20th goals of the season and defender Giorgio Chiellini also scored twice to defeat struggling Arezzo, managed by former Juventus stalwart Antonio Conte.

    The Turin club return to Serie A at the first attempt despite a nine-point deduction linked to the match-fixing verdict, which came after former general manager Luciano Moggi was found guilty of securing favourable referees.

    The penalty in Serie B originally stood at 30 points but two appeals brought the deduction down to 17 and then nine points.

    "I asked the boys to end it today and not to think about the other matches. It brings great satisfaction and a lot of joy to everyone involved in this adventure," Deschamps told Sky Sport.

    Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, one of several top players Juve managed to hang on to this season, made a double save early on and Arezzo had other good chances as Juventus failed to settle.

    Del Piero eased their nerves with a superb shot across the goalkeeper on 19 minutes following a neat through ball from Claudio Marchisio.

    Chiellini then took advantage of a blunder by Arezzo keeper Nicolas Bremec to head in on 33 minutes but Antonio Floro Flores pulled one back on halftime when he exposed a Juventus defence that will need rebuilding in Serie A.

    Juve would not be denied though and Chiellini finished off Del Piero's free kick early in the second period before Del Piero nodded in the fourth and David Trezeguet turned in number five.

    "It is has been a difficult year and it is right to celebrate our passage. Now we are starting to think about next year," Del Piero said.

    Second-placed Genoa's hopes of automatic promotion took a slight knock after a 2-2 draw at Bari while Napoli, in third, drew 1-1 with Modena.

    Reuters
     

    zizoufan

    Z.Z T h e M a s t e r
    May 25, 2004
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    Congratulations everyone around here. I would like to thank every player who contributed to this magnificient performance. Here we are back to Serie A !!
     
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    ReBeL

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    Jan 14, 2005
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    I'm starting to love Reuters:D

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    Juventus return to Serie A half intact


    MILAN, May 19 (Reuters) - Juventus winning immediate promotion back to Italy's top-flight was the easy part of their punishment for match-fixing.

    Becoming the great force they once were at home and in Europe will take more time.

    Serie B is surprisingly weak and even a nine-point penalty failed to halt Juve's promotion with three games to spare on Saturday.

    Didier Deschamps has managed the side with dignity, never degrading the standard of opposition but remaining ruthlessly focused on returning to Serie A straight away.

    The former France captain has been rewarded for practically begging to coach the side when few others wanted to know the club after they were demoted following the biggest scandal to hit Italian football.

    Juve were stripped of their 2005 and 2006 titles and deducted 30 points in Serie B, later cut to 17, after former general manager Luciano Moggi and others were found guilty of securing favourable referees and further illicit activities.

    Deschamps, a World Cup winner who also helped Juventus to European Cup glory in 1996, did not feel managing in Serie B was below him despite his achievements in coaching Monaco to the Champions League final in 2004.

    His first task, after Fabio Capello made a quick exit to Real Madrid, was to convince some of Juve's top players that it was worthwhile sticking around.

    Patrick Vieira and Zlatan Ibrahimovic dashed off to Inter Milan, Fabio Cannavaro and Emerson followed Capello to Real while Lilian Thuram and Gianluca Zambrotta went to Barcelona.

    Alessandro Del Piero, Juventus through and through, was always going to remain but Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, international team mate Mauro Camoranesi, France striker David Trezeguet and Czech Pavel Nedved surprisingly stayed put.

    The club were on the move though.

    Players and fans had long bemoaned the Stadio delle Alpi for a poor atmosphere and the already-planned switch to the smaller Stadio Olimpico meant the team could play in a more intimate stadium where the lower Serie B crowds would be less noticeable.

    Juve made a steady start but fresh momentum came in November when their points deduction was further cut to nine on appeal.

    They never looked back and easily secured promotion but it is now that the real work begins.

    "I think that 2008 we need to be realistic. It will be a complicated year. For now the scudetto is a utopia," Deschamps said recently.

    Plans are afoot to redevelop the delle Alpi but rebuilding on the pitch is also needed if they are to reassert their place in the Italian and European game.

    The defence will be bulked up with Jean Alain Boumsong, who endured a nightmare spell at Newcastle United, even looking shaky in Serie B. Germany's Torsten Frings has already turned the club down though.

    Buffon's future is also in doubt while Trezeguet and Camoranesi could leave despite the promotion.

    Deschamps has been coy about his own position with some fans seeing him as a Serie B coach. He has the backing of Juventus directors though and deep down he must be relishing the chance to complete the club's rehabilitation in the top division.

    "I don't think about the future, the only objective has been Serie A," he said.

    Reuters
     

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