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Bài 6: Toyota Cup winners 1985 and 1996 A brief history…
In the history of football, Juventus is a club without compare. Known affectionately as “La Vecchia Signora” (The Old Lady), “Juve” were founded on 1 November 1897. But as her name suggests (“Juventus” means “youth” in Latin), this particular centenarian has lost none of her faculties with age. The club’s statutes were written on a bench at the corner of the Corso Re-Umberto and the Corso Vittorio Emmanuele in Turin, the daily meeting place of fifteen or so students from the Ginnasio Massimo d'Azeglio high school and two 20-year-old bicycle repairmen, Eugenio and Enrico Canfari.
Juventus Football Club, whose original strip was pink, did not contest its first official match until three years later, a game they lost (1-0) to FC Torinese. Three more years then elapsed before Juventus adopted their new colours, when they acquired a set of black-and-white vertical striped shirts from John Savage, an Englishman living in Turin who had passed on the order to friends back in Nottingham.
Juve won their first title in 1905, but it was in 1923 that the club really hit the big time when it was taken over by the Agnelli family, owners of the powerful Fiat motor group. Lured by of the guarantee of regular wages and the perk of a gleaming new car provided by the Italian firm, several big name players soon headed for the Piedmont club, which proceeded to clinch five consecutive titles between 1931 and 35. Juve went on to cement their place among the giants of Italian football courtesy of the arrival of world-class talents such as Giampiero Boniperti, the Welshman John Charles and the Argentinian Omar Sivori.
The arrival of coach Giovanni Trapattoni in 1977 enabled Juve to scale even greater heights (six titles in his 10 years at the club), so much so that the Squadra Azzurra team at the 1978 FIFA World Cup Argentina™ was to all intents and purposes the Juventus side. And, in 1982, there were no fewer than seven representatives of “the Old Lady” in the side crowned world champions in Spain.
The acquisition of the Frenchman Michel Platini, who topped the calico goalscoring charts three times, enabled Juve to remain at the very top, despite the terrible tragedy at Brussels’ Heysel stadium on 29 May 1985, when several dozen Italian fans were crushed to death (39 dead, 450 wounded). Since then, Juve have embraced the healing process with dignity, while continuing to collect silverware with monotonous regularity.
Toyota Cup 1985 Match summaryHaving failed to lift the trophy in 1973, Juve were forced to battle hard for their first Toyota Cup triumph. South American outsiders Argentinos Juniors belied their low global profile by playing football of remarkable quality. Twice during the second half, the Argentines cheekily took the lead, through Ereros and Castro respectively, but first Platini, then Michael Laudrup eight minutes from time, hauled Juve back into the match. In the ensuing penalty shootout, the South Americans finally cracked (4-2), but as the Argentinian daily El Grafico emphasised, this cup had two winners: “Juventus who won it fair and square, and Argentinos Juniors, who gained many friends with their style of play.
Key playerIt is difficult to pick out one star from the veritable constellation that made up the Juventus side. However, the Frenchman Michel Platini undoubtedly played a decisive role in the club’s first Toyota Cup success. A close friend of the club’s chairman Agnelli, Platini could scarcely have been more successful during his time with Juventus. His mammoth haul of silverware included one Italian title, an Italian Cup, a European Cup, a Cup Winners Cup, a Toyota Cup, three consecutive Serie A topscorer titles and three consecutive European Player of the Year awards.
CoachThe cream of the world’s coaches have all been in the service of “the Old Lady” at one time or another, but Giovanni Trapattoni left the most lasting mark. This elegant man’s mantra was: “A football team should have an iron defence and an inventive attack”, and he certainly practised what he preached at Juve.
Ever-faithful to these same criteria, Trapattoni has managed seven clubs (Juventus, Inter, Bayern Munich, Cagliari, Fiorentina, Benfica and Stuttgart) in his 31-year managerial career. He has won 21 trophies, including nine league titles in three different countries: seven in Italy (Juventus 6, Inter 1), one in Germany with Bayern and one in Portugal (Benfica 2005). “Trap” has picked up three national cups in two countries (2 with Juventus and 1 with Bayern), two national super cups (Inter and Bayern), no less than six European trophies (1 European Cup and 1 Cup Winners Cup with Juventus, three UEFA Cups, two with Juventus and one with Inter), one European Super Cup with Juventus, and of course the Toyota Cup. Now aged 66, he is still busy plotting the acquisition of more silverware.
Toyota Cup 1985 8 December 1985 at Tokyo’s National Stadium
Juventus beat Argentinos Juniors 2-2, 4-2 on penalties
62,000 spectators
Referee: Volker Roth (GER)
Goals: Juventus: Platini (63’ pen.), Laudrup (82’). Argentinos Juniors: Ereros (55’), Castro (75’)
Penalties scored: For Juventus: Brio, Cabrini, Serena and Platini.
For Argentinos: Olguín and J.J. Lopez
Teams:
Juventus :Tacconi, Favero, Cabrini, Brio, Scirea, Bonini, Manfredonia, Platini, Mauro, Serena, Laudrup.
Coach: Trappatoni.
Argentinos Juniors:Vidallé, Pavoni, Domenech, Villalba, Olguin, Batista, Videla, Commisso, Castro, Borghi, Ereos.
Coach: Yudica.
Man of the match: Platini (Juventus)
Toyota Cup 1996 Match summaryIn 1996, Juve won the trophy for the second time against another Argentinian side, River Plate, who were also aiming for their second success. The highly competitive final remained delicately balanced until, with nine minutes left on the clock, a shot by the Argentine playmaker Ariel Ortega bounced back off the crossbar. From the clearance, Zinedine Zidane headed the ball on to Alessandro Del Piero, who buried the ball in the back of the net and River Plate’s hopes with it.
Key playerDubbed "Pinturicchio" by Giovanni Agnelli, who likened his delicate touch on the ball to the brush strokes of the Italian renaissance painter, Alessandro del Piero is a one-off character in Italian football.
Spotted by Franco Causio while at Padova, Del Piero, whose idol remains the Frenchman Michel Platini, is both an accomplished finisher and a playmaker par excellence, capable of lighting up a match with a single flick of the boot. His achievements with Juventus speak for themselves: six league titles between 1995 and 2005, a Champions League trophy and a Toyota Cup triumph.
When on song, Del Piero can be truly astounding, such as during the 1997-98 season, when he netted an incredible 32 times. But he is very much a confidence player prone to extreme highs and lows, with a tendency to be brilliant one week, then off-colour the next. Plagued by injury during his career, Del Piero has consistently shown great strength of character by returning to top form to silence his detractors.
After a somewhat disappointing season in 2004, he suddenly woke up ten days from the end to save Juve with some crucial goals, most notably against Milan. This year, Del Piero is not even guaranteed a place in the starting line-up for Juventus or Italy, but far from letting his shoulders droop, he is dreaming of FIFA World Cup TM glory in Germany, an achievement that would see him surpass the feats of Platini himself.
CoachAlways immaculately attired on the sidelines, the Tuscan Marcelo Lippi is a star in his own right, on a par with the top players. Lippi may be a man of few words, with the type of phlegmatic personality more commonly associated with the British, but his name will remain forever associated with the history of Juventus, whom he steered to five domestic titles, one Champions League success, a Toyota Cup and an Italian Cup.
After a modest career as a player, primarily with Sampdoria (1962-1979), Lippi set about establishing himself as one of the most renowned tacticians in the world. Highly demanding and punctilious in the extreme, Lippi rules his teams with a rod of iron, and his training sessions are meticulously analysed by coaches worldwide.
“You just have to know how to manage certain situations and sometimes how to be effective rather than spectacular,” he states, refusing to be pigeon-holed.
After a fruitless spell with Inter, Lippi swiftly returned to winning ways with Juventus (he took charge again there in 2001) and had intended to draw a line under his coaching career at the end of last season.
I wanted to call it a day, but the Italian Federation contacted me and it’s an honour to be able to try a new experience with the Squadra Azzurra,” enthuses Lippi, who is targeting qualification followed by FIFA Wold Cup triumph in order to end his career on the ultimate high. Unless, that is, the football bug again refuses to slacken its grip...
Toyota Cup 1996 26 November 1996 at Tokyo’s National Stadium
Juventus beat River Plate 1-0
48,305 spectators
Referee: M. Rezende (BRA)
Goals: Juventus: Del Piero (81’)
Teams:
Juventus : Peruzzi, Ferrara, Porrini, Torricelli, Montero, Di Livio, Deschamps, Jugovic, Zidane, Boksic, Del Piero.
Coach: M. Lippi.
River Plate: Bonano, Diaz, Berizzo, Ayala, Sorin, Astrada, Monserrat, Berti, Ortega, Francescoli, Cruz.
Coach: M. Diaz
Man of the match: Alessandro del Piero (Juventus)
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