Five reasons why Juventus should take the Europa League seriously

A very bleak night for Juventini

Having been knocked out of the Champions League group stage for the second time in four years,  La Vecchia Signora find themselves relegated to UEFA’s much maligned 2^nd tier competition once again. In the 2009/10 edition, Juve beat Ajax in the round of 32, and then we all know what happened next.  Fulham unceremoniously dumped them out of the tournament in the last 16 after an embarrassing second leg in which they were 1 – 4 up on aggregate and somehow contrived to lose 5-4 after a stunning comeback from the southwest London side.  The side of 2009/10 was not a particularly vintage Juventus side and so expectations were not high on winning the tournament, this time however it’s quite different.

My Favourite Goal

Whether you have been a lifelong fan of the beautiful game or have just recently developed an interest in the sport, everyone will have a favourite goal, a goal they will reminisce and reference whenever a conversation about Football crops up. A goal, which from the moment you witness it, will be forever etched in your memory.  The goal could be your most cherished for emotional reasons, it could save your team from relegation on the last day of the season, or win your side a cup or league title, it could be a goal that just blows your mind for the sheer technique and skill involved, or it could be from your favourite player.  The strike that is my number one belongs in the latter two categories.

Thanks to the glorious invention that is the Internet, I know the date of the very first game I watched on television that started my obsession with the beautiful game.  It was the 10^th July 1994, I was seven years old, and my late father was watching the Quarter-final match between Sweden and Romania at the 1994 World Cup, at the time I was aware that the World Cup was taking place as a friend of mine had a USA ’94 football with all the groups on it and we used to go through all the exotic sounding countries like Mexico, Cameroon and Bolivia.