Broken Juventus In Ritiro To Fix Crisis
The Bianconeri have called a ritiro in an attempt to salvage their season...
Juventus will go on ritiro from Tuesday following their latest collapse, with their loss to Sampdoria on Sunday seeing them slip to sixth place in the Serie A table.
Antonio Cassano inflicted a 1-0 defeat upon the Old Lady, and hopes of Champions League football have been thrown into further doubt.
The club is desperate to remedy the situation and Roberto Bettega prescribed the ritiro solution after a consultation with Alessandro Del Piero.
Bettega told Controcampo: "Juve will go on ritiro from Tuesday in preparation for the Napoli clash [on Thursday].
"Del Piero proposed the idea. The team is willing to stick together and confront themselves and be clear on ideas, and we have accepted."
for the guys who dont no what ritiro is:
ritiro is the dreaded mid-season springs of out nowhere and slaps you in the face ritiro. This ritiro is reserved for clubs that are going through a crisis period and need to concentrate completely on calcio. The players hate this one, because it means leaving their families and lives behind for a week to go off to another secluded village town (or sometimes just the club’s training ground) preparing for the upcoming game. It is usually seen as a punishment. Throughout the season you’ll see a variety of teams go into ritiro, in fact just now Lazio and Atalanta are in ritiro as we speak. “Il ritiro” has always had mixed reviews and criticisms. Some people feel that it is a waste of time and sometimes can make matters worse, demoralizing players and proving no help at all, leading to more negative results. On the other hand people think it can be beneficial, allowing players to relax, focus on the problem and resolve it, and then put in positive results. For example, Parma went into ritiro at the end of February and have since won 7 points in 3 games.
Generally, it’s the old school coaches that take their teams into ritiro. It has been such a big part of calcio for so many years (especially in the 70’s and 80’s) that coaches that were players during those years usually are in favor of bringing a crisis-struck team into ritiro. Younger coaches that played during the 90’s don’t really embrace the ritiro idea because they remember how much they hated it. “Il Ritiro” is a uniquely Italian concept, I’ve never heard of EPL teams or La Liga teams doing this on a regular basis. You don’t even hear of teams going into ritiro the day before a game like in Italy.
