Never knew there was a link between those two teams. What a great story. Shows a touch of class from Juventus. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...s-Notts-County-play-prestigious-friendly.html
you see the English/Scottish links to a lot of Argentinian,Brazilian, and even the odd Spanish and Italian club. from that Brazilians still sometimes call dribbling "the Scottish" to copying shirts and adopting club names.
Never knew the link between them!? And at least it's a proper link, not like Leeds copying Madrid's colours because they were jealous...
Yes it's quite common. Atheltic club de Bilbao took their kit from Sunderland after Mackem migrant workers went there.
Actually, that is a common misapprehension. Football was certainly introduced by workers including some from Sunderland but also Southampton and Portsmouth. However Athletic Club Bilbao's first kit was like a Blackburn Rovers one. This was also worn by Athletic Club Madrid as it was first named and was formed by Basques and was originally a joint club.. Someone was told to get some new Blackburn shirts on a trip to England but couldn't get enough Blackburn type ones. He saw some Southampton ones and realised they were Bilbao's city colours and so bought a load of them. Half were used by Bilbao who kept the black shorts they had previously worn. This kit is what makes people think of Sunderland, mistakenly. However Southampton played in blue shorts in those days and Athletic ,later Atletico, Madrid who got the other half of the shirts, adopted the full Southampton kit of red and white striped shirt with blue shorts.
I'm with you, absolutely stunned that he didnt know this..... Still, he's right about Juve displaying class here. Nice touch.
Why are they opening a new ground anyway? They get **** crowds as it is. Less than 1,000 for some cup games.
Because they've got 11million registered fans in the world might be something to do with it. People who know football would know that Juve are by far and away the best supported club in Italy yet paradoxically they get poor home crowds. This is because Turin is one of only 2 cities in the whole of Italy where Juve AREN'T the best supported club. Juve have more fans in Milan than both Milan and Inter, bet you didnt know that eh? They get huge crowds for away games with their fans often outnumbering home fans and there has actually been a big movement to try and get them to relocate to another city, hence the decision to play UEFA cup games in Milan during previous seasons (when they got 80,000+ sell outs every time). The new stadium is all part of a move to actually try and engage with the population of Turin and return to times of only a decade ago when they averaged over 55,000 for home games.
I did know that. My point was that they won't be opening a new ground in Milan, they'll be opening one in the same city - one that has lost interest in them in recent years.
Well for the last 3 years capacity has been 21,000 so that accounts for low crowds. And like I said, they're trying to engage with Turin again. The Stadio Delle Alpi was hugely unpopular so they knocked it down and have now become the first Italian club to own their own stadium.
We were only one letter away. And it's simply a question of scale. The intended impact of the new stadium is to reverse the loss of fans experianced by the club in the area in recent years and to help bring future success. I'd say it's a pretty good comparison with why Hull felt the stadium would be good for the club.
