Juventus, a hundred years of Agnelli and a soul to be found quickly – Corriere.it

ctwenty years and hear them all. Today Juventus celebrates the centenary of the acquisition by the Agnelli family, a unique goal in the panorama of Italian football, indeed of world sport. The anniversary comes in one of the less happy moments, without an Agnelli heir to the presidency and without trophies on the showcase for two years. However, what makes the most numerous and varied crowd of fans uneasy is what led to this scenario precisely in the year that opened in Villar Perosa with the words of Andrea and John Elkann: Only if one knows the past is he able to build the future by living the present to the fullest. Almost none of those words has been respected and the result is one loss of identity and also of esprit de corps that the new Juve must recover quicklyin the name of the only truly powerful glue that made the Fiat team a factory of victories: the quality of the product, i.e. the success, is the very essence of juventinit.

From the first cycle with 5 consecutive titles at the beginning of the 1930s, which ended with the tragic death of Edoardo, to the years of the magical trio Sivori-Charles-Boniperti. Just the greatest black and white striker before the relay with Del Piero was together with the lawyer the symbol of the great comeback of the 70s, after Milan had triumphed in Italy and Europe in the boom years. The factory team responded with the launch of young Italians, many of them from the South, definitively welding its identity, that of bosses and workers waving the same flag.

In today’s liquid football, Juve canceled the Villar Perosa event for reasons of public order. It will therefore be a social and digital centenary, with the team engaged in the USA. But local and global Juve, a story of great victories and the ability to get back up after the toughest defeats, as are those cars inflicted by a leadership that has navigated rough seas and lost its bearings too often. To find it again, a tweet or a post on Instagram is not enough. We need the black and white soul, if it still exists.