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JUVENTUS: PRIMA SQUADRA - ICONS

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Get to Know Juventus

Alrighty then, since that transfer move has actually happened (I’m in as much shock as everyone else), I figured I’d make a (long) post about my amazing club for any new fans that decide to start following Juve (I’m also making this for @vergne because I’m proving to be a terrible influence)

Juve is based in the beautiful city of Turin in Northern Italy (I haven’t been but I’ve seen pictures and trust me, it’s gorgeous) we play our home games in the Allianz Stadium (used to be called the Juventus Stadium, but the name got changed because sponsorship money) and our official mascot is Jay the Zebra, because why the hell not.

I don’t need to say it but Juve is the most successful club in Italian football and we have more trophies than I’ve had hot dinners (34 Serie A, 13 Coppa Italia, 7 Suppercoppa Italiana and many, many more). For the past 7 seasons we’ve won the Scudetto (synonym for Serie A title, and it’s the little Italian flag shield on our shirts) and for the past 4 years we’ve won the Coppa Italia (which we get to wear little Italian flag badges on our shirts too). Our main derbies are the Derby Della Mole, which is against city rivals Torino and the Derby d’Italia, which is against Inter Milan.

Speaking of shirts, we definitely have the prettiest strip in Serie A and you can fight me on that.

I’ll try and be brief about the squad, but I love a lot (and I mean A LOT) of our players so we might be here a while, but I’ll try and stick to the important ones.

Manager:

This is Massimiliano Allegri (but we all just call him Max). He’s been at the club since 2014 and has led the club to our 4 consecutive league and cup doubles, as well as 2 UCL finals (2015 and 2017, but we don’t talk about them). He also likes to shout (a lot) and when watching matches on TV you can literally hear him screaming at every player and their grandmother from the touch line.

Players:

Any Real fans will know who the first two are, but if not: this is Gonzalo Higuain (#9, Forward), or as we all call him El Pipita. He came to Juve from Napoli back in 2016 and as such we now have some big ass beef with Napoli (when Higuain left Napopli their fans printed his face on toilet paper they were that pissed off about it). He’s scored 40 goals for us so far, some love him, some dislike him, but he’s one heck of a good player.

my love, my darling, my sweet German prince

I could say many, many wonderful things about Sami Khedira (#6 Midfield) but I’ll reign myself in even though he’s one of my main fave players. Another one who joined the club in 2015 (what do you know from Real Madrid). While he’s a defensive midfielder he’s still an utterly amazing player, last season he scored 9 goals which was is personal best for any club (19 in total in 77 Juve apearances so far), and on top of that he’s a World Cup winner to boot. (He also bought 1200 tickets for Germany's World Cup Qualifying match against Norway back in 2017 and sent them out to disadvantaged children as the match was in his home city of Stuttgart, so he’s also a very good bean)

The man who was bitten by Luis Suarez and lived to tell the tale. Giorgio Chiellini (#3 Defender) will start this season as Captain following Gigi Buffon’s departure to PSG *sob*. I have no words to say how much of a legend Chelio is, but he is an incredible defender and easily one of the best I’ve seen. Try and get a ball past him, I dare you.

World Cup winner, rescuer of moths (and Olympian, he was part of the Italian men’s football team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens) Andrea Barzagli (#15 Defender) could not be more of an icon. Everyone loves him (litterally everyone and for a man of 36 he still plays insaely well. Him and Giorgio are an incredible defensive duo. He’s the player we don’t deserve but have been blessed with anyway.

No, it’s not the face of Armani. It’s our beloved Il Principino and Vice-Captain Claudio Marchisio (#8 Midfield). I don’t even know where to start with this man, he’s from Turin and as far as I’m aware is the only home boy in the squad. Over the past couple of seasons he’s been recovering from a very nasty knee injury, but he still plays as beautifully as he always has done.

Miralem Pjanic (#5 midfield) is the King of Free Kicks. When it comes to set pieces I trust this man with my life. Some call him the magician he’s that good. Seriously, watch one of those compilation videos on YouTube of his free kicks, they’re that iconic. (Also if you follow him on social media you’ll see lots of his adorable little son Edin, who is the cutest little thing I’ve ever seen).

The real Drama Queen of Argentina. Paulo Dybala (#10 Forward) is one of the younger players in the squad. But holy moly is he talented. He works amazing with Higauin (forming my beloved Argentine Super Duo). He scored 22 goals for Juve last season, He’s an amazing talent who is just going to get better as the years go on, and despite his occasional overly dramatic antics, we all love him to bits.

They man, the myth, the actual Prince of Croatia. Mario Mandzukic (#17 Forward) is just incredible (okay I’m biased because he’s another one of my many faves), he’s such a versatile player; he attacks, he defends, he assists, he’s even played as a goalie in training. He was another player that joined in 2015 and boy are we lucky to have him. To date he’s the only player to score in a UCL Final for two different clubs (Bayern in 2013 and Juve in 2017) and if that isn’t iconic enough then I don’t know what is (well... apart from his 2017 UCL final goal)

And last but most certainly not least... Wojciech Szczesny (#1 Goalkeeper). Formerly of Arsenal and Roma he is the successor to our beloved Gigi. He had an incredible debut season, keeping 14 clean sheets in 22 appearances. He really is a safe pair of hands (pun definitely intended)

I’m going to leave it there, but if you have any questions about more players or Serie A then just ask! (I’ve only been a Juve fan since early 2017 but I’ll try my best). And of course there’s the amazing Netflix documentary ‘Juventus: First Team’. It was filmed over the 2017-18 season and provides such a good behind the scenes insight. It’s definitely worth a watch.

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name more iconic duo than pipita and offside, i will wait (:

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this year was a magical one for madridistas – with our first la liga trophy in five years and la duodecima, we had two trips to the cibeles! 

and while each celebration is beautiful and special in its own way, there was something i missed from the last time we won la liga…. xabi alonso, just, shitfaced out of his mind and having the time of his life.

what you think xabi alonso looks like when he drinks:

what xabi alonso actually looks like when he drinks:

yeah.

so, a bit of context: the 2012 la liga was an especially big deal for xabi, as it was the first time he’d ever won a league title at any of his clubs (sorry, liverpool). and the “classiest man in football” certainly went all-out on celebrating this career milestone.

throughout the day, cameras caught him dancing:

giving piggyback rides:

hamming it up for the crowd:

spraying his poor captain with beer:

and throughout it all, he kept his trusty mahou in hand.

in fact, when his teammates tried to take away his booze… it didn’t go great. here we have antonio adan casually throwing xabi’s beer can over the side of the bus:

gonzalo higuain went for the more direct approach, with mixed results:

perhaps the best moment of the day came when xabi totally ate it on the stage, forcing raul albiol to leap over him, spider-man style:

our man recovered admirably, however, and could later be seen regaling pipita with the story:

(full credit to @tfortravis for these iconic gifs. other gifs edited from unamadridista originals)

oh, xabi. no matter how angry i am about the way you left us, you’ll always have a reluctant place in my heart for your shenanigans that day. to quote a movie i know you love:

here’s looking at you, kid.

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krooos replied to your post: your pipita post is so sad .. worst case scenario...

i cant belieb ppl remember that single iconic event on real madrids history

it haunts me lmao..I can never ever forget that and I still can’t believe it actually happened 

[doux-amer]

Typical Argentina, nearly squandering Leo's gift and Pipita choking , but somehow they scraped that win. I'm sad for Nigeria and I hope we can see more of them at some point, but god...as much as I was furious at bad giveaways and misses, I got misty-eyed when I saw that longgggg, passionate embrace between an overjoyed Leo and a crying Masche (bleeding through the second half and not giving a damn? Iconic. Leading from the back and in the middle? Iconic. I’ll always say that as long as he’s playing for the NT, El Jefecito should be the one wearing the captain’s armband, not Leo, even if Masche doesn’t care who has the captaincy and loves and supports Leo. That said, he messed up big time and made me so exasperated during the match, and I don’t think he should start for the next match tbh) and then Di María sobbing his heart out. After reading his excellent, heart-wrenching Players’ Tribune’s piece yesterday, I was happy and relieved for him. 

Anyway, the Argentina NT still has a lot of massive weaknesses, but I just hope they can get their act together in the round of 16. :/

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Remember that time David Villa tried to fight Mesut and Pipita was literally about to murder him for it..that was iconic