Why Juventus? (4 Viewers)
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It was sometime around 1992/1993. I was playing for this team and our coach told us to watch the Milan derby. So come Sunday I tuned in and I watched a couple of games but it was Juve that I fell in love with. I fell in love with the way they played, the jersey and Fabrizio Ravanelli 
Juventus for life!
Juventus for life!
I only got into pro football during the 2002 world cup and I liked Del Piero. I then learned about club football and through the video game fifa 2003 I played as Juventus because they always beat me, they had Del Piero on their team, I loved the jerseys, and i loved the name. I spent a while playing as them in the fifa games and then I got into actual pro football and I just followed them from there.
I went to my cousins house when i was about 4 years old not knowing much and my aunty and uncle go 4 ac milan but my cuzzins both went 4 juventus, nd they said who your favourite soccer team and i didnt know, nd i ask them who they go 4 and they said juventus, and we watched juventus but i dont remember too much then as i got abit older i remember the likes of zidane davids and del piero and such tearing up the pitch i thank god 4 showing me the way of juventus
FORZA JUVE so fAR for about 12 years.
FORZA JUVE so fAR for about 12 years.
It was sometime around 1992/1993. I was playing for this team and our coach told us to watch the Milan derby. So come Sunday I tuned in and I watched a couple of games but it was Juve that I fell in love with. I fell in love with the way they played, the jersey and Fabrizio Ravanelli
Juventus for life!
Juventus for life!
int: ravenelli always stood out for some reason, i mean everytime i think of juventus he would be the image u get back then. the same way when people think of roma the image u get is totti.
stupid reason, but i was playing a demo version of FIFA 98 or 99, which had Manchester United vs. Juventus. i thought it was a cool name for a club and the B&W jersey appealed to me cos i love it simple... and what's more simpler than B&W!
ever since then, i've been keepin an eye on Juve's matches when i got the chance., but my love grew only when i got internet at my place and thus started following their matches/results closely. this started during Capello's last season, and i was heartbroken to know that the first full season of Juve i was following is gonna be in Serie B!
so it was pretty much love at first sight... cos Juve were the very first football club i started to like, follow, love!
:jvefan:
ever since then, i've been keepin an eye on Juve's matches when i got the chance., but my love grew only when i got internet at my place and thus started following their matches/results closely. this started during Capello's last season, and i was heartbroken to know that the first full season of Juve i was following is gonna be in Serie B!
so it was pretty much love at first sight... cos Juve were the very first football club i started to like, follow, love!
:jvefan:When I was in junior high school, there was not much football on TV in Vietnam that time. Occasionally, I could see a little of serie A, League 1 and PL. The most attractive league that time definitely was C1 (CL). And yes, I watched Juve played once and suddenly felt in love with black and white.:rulz: It was just a long time ago that I can't remember which is that match.
Approximately 10 years so far. :drill:
Approximately 10 years so far. :drill:
stupid reason, but i was playing a demo version of FIFA 98 or 99, which had Manchester United vs. Juventus. i thought it was a cool name for a club and the B&W jersey appealed to me cos i love it simple... and what's more simpler than B&W!
ever since then, i've been keepin an eye on Juve's matches when i got the chance., but my love grew only when i got internet at my place and thus started following their matches/results closely. this started during Capello's last season, and i was heartbroken to know that the first full season of Juve i was following is gonna be in Serie B!
so it was pretty much love at first sight... cos Juve were the very first football club i started to like, follow, love! :jvefan:
ever since then, i've been keepin an eye on Juve's matches when i got the chance., but my love grew only when i got internet at my place and thus started following their matches/results closely. this started during Capello's last season, and i was heartbroken to know that the first full season of Juve i was following is gonna be in Serie B!
so it was pretty much love at first sight... cos Juve were the very first football club i started to like, follow, love!
:jvefan:
I honestly cant remember why I'm a Juventino . I think it had something to do with Edgar Davids and Del Piero, because then (about 9 years ago) I didn't know anything about Juve. All I knew was that Del Piero was my fathers favourite player at the time and personally I liked Davids' style of play when I saw him in the Dutch national team.
. I think it had something to do with Edgar Davids and Del Piero, because then (about 9 years ago) I didn't know anything about Juve. All I knew was that Del Piero was my fathers favourite player at the time and personally I liked Davids' style of play when I saw him in the Dutch national team.
I used to admire Juve from the Baggio era, such players and the team's colors were suffice reasons to make me support a team at that age.
(Thats why i supported Chelsea, the only non red team, in England, Barca in Spain and Porto in Portugal)
My resources at the coverage of serie A was very limited back then. I had no option than to watch the pathetic Greek league, despite my will.
As a child (5-7 years old) i used to support teams for their players and their colors (blue and black).
Mostly NTs though, so thats why the Brazilian and Italian teams were my favorites.
The Brazilian players where in my eyes the best players of the world, because i valued the technique more than any other thing.
Back then, there was a Greek forward very famous for his technigue and he was the main reason i was following football week in, week out.
I look up to him, as any kid of my age...
Eventually he got injured and my football world was lost, i patiently waited for him to come back, but he decided to quit football, FOR EVER!!
I felt so... betrayed...
So i quited the Greek pathetic league and everything related to football, as a whole!!
(i remember arguing with my father, because i wanted to see films and he wanted to see football matches)
I was confident that the football i was playing with my mates, in our backyard was of higher quality than our pathetic league, it was at least more interest to me.
I was only watching CL and National teams football for some years!
(In Greece football was so popular, that there was no concept of a non football fan child)
IMO these ages gave birth to some charismatic players, players, which modern day football cannot re build!
I used to value FCs, based on the number and the quality of those players they had.
But only because i was so severely hurt by the love of one player, i never would repeat the same mistake of supporting a team for a certain player.
Ajax with the dutch super doped generation became my favorite football team of her, simply because they had easily the best concentration of those superhuman players
(and the extra reason, that my home town team FC, was called The Ajax of Epirus,
a team with beautiful blue jerseys and horrible Greek serie B players and coaches, but i had a free pass to see their matches:choc: )
i ve always hated Milan for stealing them and because they were red
!!
(the color i used to hate as i child, for stupid reasons, like its girlish)
I also lost respect to Ajax when i saw how they lost their character as a team,
when they lost those players, i couldnt comprehend why they would betray their players and let them go.
Eventually, i ve grown up more mature, than most of the people's usual age to select a team for childish reasons.
I was free of every childish, biased favorism.
So i ve learned to rate a team for her very own character, some values dont change much during time,
i ve seen than players come and go, but the character of the team remains there, eternally!!
That was the type of commitment i respected and was looking for.
In Italy, i ve always admired Juve and Inter the most, Inter was not that classless back then, they had some interesting players, including one of the last legends (Mattheus), they also were wearing my favorite colors and i always enjoyed to see the clash between Juve and Inter the most!
Two very technical teams with a very balanced and well structured type of play.
I reckon that i slightly favored Juve only because of Baggio, IMO the last legend of the romantic old era of football.
But i realized in time, how special this team is...
Juve at a certain time, concluded everything i liked to see in football,
quality, iconic players, great tactical teamwork and an immortal, soul.
A reliable character that would survive anything and everywhere, under any circumstances!!
In time, tactics became the most important thing, i rated in football.
Tactics represent the character of the team and makes them what they really are, tactics make the difference between equally quality teams,
tactics are not that effected/depended by a player's performance!
I used to watch football as a chess player, it was inevitable that Italian teams and esp Juve would capture my interest the most.
They offered exactly the spectacle i would pay for, such football would never be simulated at any case in my backyard!!
Juve always fed the Italian NT with star players and Juve never lost her soul and unique character, from the first day i set my eyes upon her.
Juve was my sympathy for 4-5 years, but i still i wouldnt consider my self a Juve fan, i was just flirting with the old lady and would only occasionally meet up with her.
I was very sorry to see Baggio leaving Juve, but Juve didnt betray my interest, the young boy named Del Piero, looked as impressive as the legendary Baggio and the team's character wasnt affected but that great loss, on the contrary Juve got stronger and much more interested to watch, the way the players were finding each other on the field, the way they were controlling the ball and the entire match, they way they were carefully planning for their next move, as a whole,
as a team, was the very reason i was watching football!!
I was addicted to old ladies beauty, but i didnt realized that!!
The old lady tried her best to impress me with that brilliant blue jersey and with that brilliant teamwork, with those amazing players
and Juve, with her persistent appearance to CLs, she gave me the chance to get more time with her, there was a certain year when i had the change to watch the entire Italian league on TV.
My love for football returned, mostly because of Juve, i watched how Juve was safeguarding the back and building up slowly but carefully, with precise and efficient tactic moves,all the players efforts were so coordinated, they were working together as one. I didnt know of her titles and i didnt cared!!
When other boys were boasting with titles and victories on derbies of their respective pathetic Greek teams, i was laughing at them for wasting their times, watching some pathetic players, who cant cross, cant control, cant shoot, cant dribble and cant mark at all.
(Imagine a team consisted of 11 Molinaros)
A total waste of time and a total lack of any kind of tactical plans!!
Lippi's spectacular Juve proved to be the ultimate football team i would ever wish for!! They were the very definition i was attracted from football!
Football is a team's sport, not a man's sport!
If i had a team, this is exactly what i wanted to be!
They proved that, every time i got the chance to watch them.
Other respected teams like Ajax, seemed to be a no match for Juve's tactical play and adamant will, even teams with better material.
Juve was the evidence that the football i love can triumph, that is has quality, that it has future, that i can only rely on it, that it cannot betray in time, no matter what a players does or does not do!
The way Juve was defending and going forward was captivating, i couldnt help it, but cheer for them!!
The players were working as one and i was one with them, they were working with tact, patience and perseverance,
confident on they their value, but not arrogant enough to make any mistakes.
It didnt mattered to me if they were winning or losing, all that it mattered to me was they way they were playing.
That was smth worth watching, it was like an other sport really, a totally different experience!!
Football returned in my life because of Juve!!
No more conflicts with my dad and no more strange looks to my classmates, collecting panini stickers.
But still, i wouldnt be classified as a Juve fun!
I only realized how much i cared about this team, when i shed a tear, right after we lost the final against Dortmund, while wearing the fantastic blue jersey.
I cried very very few times in my life, even as i child and i couldnt imagine that a football game had such an effect on me. I was really surprised from my sentiments, shocked actually!!
I realized how unfair life is and i felt so bad about Juve, my affection for her multiplied a billion times, instantly!!
Luck may have abandoned her, a CL final was lost, but i swore never to abandon her, Juve lost a final, there but also made a fun, eternally hers (or at least as long as i hold breath)
Men have a thing with teams, they feel the need to belong to a social group,
be a part of it, support it, defend it!!
I certainly lacked that and knowing of what Juve has to offer, i didnt hesitate, not even for a moment, to make an eternal engagement with the old lady!!
I will never betray my lady, i dont have eyes for other teams and no matter how hard it gets, i will always be at her side.
At the beginning it was a very hard thing, to keep this long distance relationship.
I had to do many sacrifices, i couldnt live my love with here, thta was only a premium privilege.
My budget was extremely limited, i had no internet, no serie A TV coverage and no chance to get in Torino for the next decade...
But Juve was my drug, every Monday i was saving my launch money to get a sports newspaper, every Sunday night, i was patiently waiting until very late to see, at the last moments of the Greek TV sport shows, to see Serie A goals and comments, ,even if i had to wake up early in the morning, etc etc...
It was very hard to support a non Greek FC in the football talks, with the rest of my classmates. They were all separated in 3 large groups and couldnt understand why i wouldnt belong in one of them...
I rarely met any other Juve fans and my decision to support Juve and Juve alone, sound so weird for the rest of the world and everybody thought that i was just supporting a club for the moment.
But i was adamant at my decision, i decided to be Juve fan for ever, even if i had to be the last Juve fan on earth!!
I suffered for the fact that i couldnt share my passion for my lady, that i wouldnt offer my love directly to her...
Later on, i became more resourceful and learned that the old lady, doesnt need my help, they wouldnt even care less if i would be dead the other day...
Eventually, i grew older and my love for Juve matured and yet,
my passion for the old lady didnt fade out.
Every single time i hear the word "Juventus", i feel this cold chill in my spine,
every time i read the world Juventus, my full concentration is diverted to her,
wearing her colors make me feel proud,
watching her games gives me an immeasurable pleasure. (well not always)
I am still in love will Juve and i cant help it, this love has grown to be a part of me, it defines me!!
Juventuz has given me the chance to find my lost brothers and sisters,
among with you guys, i feel more ...complete...
you are the part of the group i belong to
Sorry for my long post, you may ignore it, but i felt the need to share those things...
(Thats why i supported Chelsea, the only non red team, in England, Barca in Spain and Porto in Portugal)
My resources at the coverage of serie A was very limited back then. I had no option than to watch the pathetic Greek league, despite my will.
As a child (5-7 years old) i used to support teams for their players and their colors (blue and black).
Mostly NTs though, so thats why the Brazilian and Italian teams were my favorites.
The Brazilian players where in my eyes the best players of the world, because i valued the technique more than any other thing.
Back then, there was a Greek forward very famous for his technigue and he was the main reason i was following football week in, week out.
I look up to him, as any kid of my age...
Eventually he got injured and my football world was lost, i patiently waited for him to come back, but he decided to quit football, FOR EVER!!
I felt so... betrayed...
So i quited the Greek pathetic league and everything related to football, as a whole!!
(i remember arguing with my father, because i wanted to see films and he wanted to see football matches)
I was confident that the football i was playing with my mates, in our backyard was of higher quality than our pathetic league, it was at least more interest to me.
I was only watching CL and National teams football for some years!
(In Greece football was so popular, that there was no concept of a non football fan child)
IMO these ages gave birth to some charismatic players, players, which modern day football cannot re build!
I used to value FCs, based on the number and the quality of those players they had.
But only because i was so severely hurt by the love of one player, i never would repeat the same mistake of supporting a team for a certain player.
Ajax with the dutch super doped generation became my favorite football team of her, simply because they had easily the best concentration of those superhuman players
(and the extra reason, that my home town team FC, was called The Ajax of Epirus,
a team with beautiful blue jerseys and horrible Greek serie B players and coaches, but i had a free pass to see their matches:choc: )
i ve always hated Milan for stealing them and because they were red
!!(the color i used to hate as i child, for stupid reasons, like its girlish)
I also lost respect to Ajax when i saw how they lost their character as a team,
when they lost those players, i couldnt comprehend why they would betray their players and let them go.
Eventually, i ve grown up more mature, than most of the people's usual age to select a team for childish reasons.
I was free of every childish, biased favorism.
So i ve learned to rate a team for her very own character, some values dont change much during time,
i ve seen than players come and go, but the character of the team remains there, eternally!!
That was the type of commitment i respected and was looking for.
In Italy, i ve always admired Juve and Inter the most, Inter was not that classless back then, they had some interesting players, including one of the last legends (Mattheus), they also were wearing my favorite colors and i always enjoyed to see the clash between Juve and Inter the most!
Two very technical teams with a very balanced and well structured type of play.
I reckon that i slightly favored Juve only because of Baggio, IMO the last legend of the romantic old era of football.
But i realized in time, how special this team is...
Juve at a certain time, concluded everything i liked to see in football,
quality, iconic players, great tactical teamwork and an immortal, soul.
A reliable character that would survive anything and everywhere, under any circumstances!!
In time, tactics became the most important thing, i rated in football.
Tactics represent the character of the team and makes them what they really are, tactics make the difference between equally quality teams,
tactics are not that effected/depended by a player's performance!
I used to watch football as a chess player, it was inevitable that Italian teams and esp Juve would capture my interest the most.
They offered exactly the spectacle i would pay for, such football would never be simulated at any case in my backyard!!
Juve always fed the Italian NT with star players and Juve never lost her soul and unique character, from the first day i set my eyes upon her.
Juve was my sympathy for 4-5 years, but i still i wouldnt consider my self a Juve fan, i was just flirting with the old lady and would only occasionally meet up with her.
I was very sorry to see Baggio leaving Juve, but Juve didnt betray my interest, the young boy named Del Piero, looked as impressive as the legendary Baggio and the team's character wasnt affected but that great loss, on the contrary Juve got stronger and much more interested to watch, the way the players were finding each other on the field, the way they were controlling the ball and the entire match, they way they were carefully planning for their next move, as a whole,
as a team, was the very reason i was watching football!!
I was addicted to old ladies beauty, but i didnt realized that!!
The old lady tried her best to impress me with that brilliant blue jersey and with that brilliant teamwork, with those amazing players
and Juve, with her persistent appearance to CLs, she gave me the chance to get more time with her, there was a certain year when i had the change to watch the entire Italian league on TV.
My love for football returned, mostly because of Juve, i watched how Juve was safeguarding the back and building up slowly but carefully, with precise and efficient tactic moves,all the players efforts were so coordinated, they were working together as one. I didnt know of her titles and i didnt cared!!
When other boys were boasting with titles and victories on derbies of their respective pathetic Greek teams, i was laughing at them for wasting their times, watching some pathetic players, who cant cross, cant control, cant shoot, cant dribble and cant mark at all.
(Imagine a team consisted of 11 Molinaros)
A total waste of time and a total lack of any kind of tactical plans!!
Lippi's spectacular Juve proved to be the ultimate football team i would ever wish for!! They were the very definition i was attracted from football!
Football is a team's sport, not a man's sport!
If i had a team, this is exactly what i wanted to be!
They proved that, every time i got the chance to watch them.
Other respected teams like Ajax, seemed to be a no match for Juve's tactical play and adamant will, even teams with better material.
Juve was the evidence that the football i love can triumph, that is has quality, that it has future, that i can only rely on it, that it cannot betray in time, no matter what a players does or does not do!
The way Juve was defending and going forward was captivating, i couldnt help it, but cheer for them!!
The players were working as one and i was one with them, they were working with tact, patience and perseverance,
confident on they their value, but not arrogant enough to make any mistakes.
It didnt mattered to me if they were winning or losing, all that it mattered to me was they way they were playing.
That was smth worth watching, it was like an other sport really, a totally different experience!!
Football returned in my life because of Juve!!
No more conflicts with my dad and no more strange looks to my classmates, collecting panini stickers.
But still, i wouldnt be classified as a Juve fun!
I only realized how much i cared about this team, when i shed a tear, right after we lost the final against Dortmund, while wearing the fantastic blue jersey.
I cried very very few times in my life, even as i child and i couldnt imagine that a football game had such an effect on me. I was really surprised from my sentiments, shocked actually!!
I realized how unfair life is and i felt so bad about Juve, my affection for her multiplied a billion times, instantly!!
Luck may have abandoned her, a CL final was lost, but i swore never to abandon her, Juve lost a final, there but also made a fun, eternally hers (or at least as long as i hold breath)
Men have a thing with teams, they feel the need to belong to a social group,
be a part of it, support it, defend it!!
I certainly lacked that and knowing of what Juve has to offer, i didnt hesitate, not even for a moment, to make an eternal engagement with the old lady!!
I will never betray my lady, i dont have eyes for other teams and no matter how hard it gets, i will always be at her side.
At the beginning it was a very hard thing, to keep this long distance relationship.
I had to do many sacrifices, i couldnt live my love with here, thta was only a premium privilege.
My budget was extremely limited, i had no internet, no serie A TV coverage and no chance to get in Torino for the next decade...
But Juve was my drug, every Monday i was saving my launch money to get a sports newspaper, every Sunday night, i was patiently waiting until very late to see, at the last moments of the Greek TV sport shows, to see Serie A goals and comments, ,even if i had to wake up early in the morning, etc etc...
It was very hard to support a non Greek FC in the football talks, with the rest of my classmates. They were all separated in 3 large groups and couldnt understand why i wouldnt belong in one of them...
I rarely met any other Juve fans and my decision to support Juve and Juve alone, sound so weird for the rest of the world and everybody thought that i was just supporting a club for the moment.
But i was adamant at my decision, i decided to be Juve fan for ever, even if i had to be the last Juve fan on earth!!
I suffered for the fact that i couldnt share my passion for my lady, that i wouldnt offer my love directly to her...
Later on, i became more resourceful and learned that the old lady, doesnt need my help, they wouldnt even care less if i would be dead the other day...
Eventually, i grew older and my love for Juve matured and yet,
my passion for the old lady didnt fade out.
Every single time i hear the word "Juventus", i feel this cold chill in my spine,
every time i read the world Juventus, my full concentration is diverted to her,
wearing her colors make me feel proud,
watching her games gives me an immeasurable pleasure. (well not always)
I am still in love will Juve and i cant help it, this love has grown to be a part of me, it defines me!!
Juventuz has given me the chance to find my lost brothers and sisters,
among with you guys, i feel more ...complete...
you are the part of the group i belong to
Sorry for my long post, you may ignore it, but i felt the need to share those things...
