178 Tears of Turin
"Fortunately, I ran fast..." Sun Xiang said while sitting in the car heading to the club, touching his little heart that was thumping.
He booked this car yesterday and did not drive his own car.
The driver is an old Londoner, and his ancestors all lived in North London, which was also what Sun Xiang learned during the chat.
At first, neither the driver nor the passenger knew who the other party was. In this era when private information was not exposed, it would be fine unless you saw him.
This also leads to some programs asking some celebrities to serve as special car drivers to observe the passengers' reactions, but most of them are just that customers don't know the truth.
This time it was different. When the driver of a special car arrived at this villa area, he was shocked by the surrounding buildings. He had never been to such a place to pick up customers, because most people who live here would choose to drive by themselves, and it was not their turn to come. So this also made him expect some of his customers.
The door opened, and when he saw Sun Xiang walking out, he almost jumped up in the car.
"God, it must be God who saw that I sent a little girl away for free yesterday to give me such luck! Mr. Sun, I am your loyal fan!"
As soon as Sun Xiang got on the bus, the driver began to express his heart.
"Mr. sun, you have to cheer on this game. Our family is watching you!"
"I bought £1,000, and it's all over you. God, what a great honor!"
"Mr. Sun, can you tell me and a photo and a signature later? Oh, by the way, there is a jersey behind the car, so sign it on that."
Sun Xiang looked at the black uncle who kept talking while driving. He wanted to interrupt but couldn't. As expected, black people had their own rap special effects.
When the car arrived at the destination, Sun Xiang and the uncle took a photo and signed it. Finally, the uncle even held Sun Xiang's face and kissed him before letting Sun Xiang go.
Sun Xiang smiled bitterly and touched his face. It seemed that his luck was really good...
The capital of Piedmont, Italy, and the third largest city in Italy. Just like Wolfsburg in Germany, it is one of the largest automobile production areas in Europe. It is also a historic ancient city. It preserves a large number of classical and baroque buildings and is also the home court of Juventus Football Club.
In this city, football is like their cars, growing rapidly across the globe.
Founded on November 1, 1897, Juventus Football Club is one of the oldest clubs in Italy and the team that has won the most Italian Football League championships. It won the cup thirty-four times in total.
At the same time, they are also the team that completed the Grand Slam in history. They are one of the most successful clubs in Europe and even the world.
It is such a traditional giant, but it has been away from the top of Europe for 23 years. The last time they won the Champions League trophy was in the 1995-1996 season. They defeated the defending champion Ajax 5-3 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, and that time was the last time they won the final.
Later, in 2015, they fell to Barcelona in the finals. In 2016, they were eliminated in the quarterfinals and also fell to the finals in 2017, but their opponents changed from Barcelona to Real Madrid.
2018 was also a year without gains, so this year, they planned to regroup and continue to want to start the championship.
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On the afternoon of February 22, after a 4-hour flight, the plane Arsenal was on finally landed at Turin Airport.
As soon as he entered this city, Sun Xiang was attracted by the football atmosphere in the city.
There was a touch of blue on almost every street, and at that time their "Blue Clothes Army" symbolized. Last year, they were disappointed in the Apennines and failed to catch up with the Russian World Cup, which made them almost collapse. However, the fans who supported them became their best support. With the disdain of fans, Italy now regained its previous feeling.
On the streets of Turin, Juventus and Turin jerseys can be seen everywhere. These two clubs in the capital of Piedmont have different historical backgrounds.
Compared to Juventus' glory, another team, Torino, is a little dim.
In fact, tracing back to history, Turin was established earlier than Juventus. They were first established in 1891 and were named Turin International Team at that time.
The Turin team ushered in its dynasty in the 1940s. At that time, Turin dominated the Apennines and contributed ten of the eleven starting players to the Italian national team, and was regarded as the "Turin Gods Team".
This "God Team" pushed Turin to its peak and created the "Great Turin Age".
However, all this was like a joke made by God, and all good luck turned into tears of sorrow with a loud bang on Mount Supega.
It was the darkest day in football history before the Munich tragedy.
On May 4, 1949, when the Turin "Gods" in the matter returned home after the Latin Cup match against Benfica in Portugal, the plane crashed into Mount Supega near the airport, and the "Supega Air Crash" that shocked the world football world occurred.
The air crash wiped out the Turin team and has not recovered since then. More importantly, Italy also lost football elites. As the main supplier of the "Blue Clothing Legion" at that time, their accident caused the Italian team to be eliminated early in the 1950 World Cup. Since then, the Italian national team entered the "dark era". The head coach lost and replaced it, and finally reached the point where the more they changed, the more they lost it.
At that time, Juventus gradually emerged, and the frustrated Turin also began to actively rebuild. The unyielding Turin fans left the famous saying "The glory fades, only history remembers; the spirit lasts forever, and the Bulls walk alone." This sentence is also the words that appear in the huge banner of the tifo on the stadium.
As time slowly passed, the haze hidden on the Bulls gradually faded away, and they then won seven trophys including Serie B. They also defeated defending champion Juventus in 1976 to win the Serie A championship.
Now, they have sent several Italian internationals to Italy, including Belotti, and the former "Turin Gods" has slowly awakened.
Perhaps in a few years, they can return to the European arena and compete with their city opponents. However, at present, the only thing the people of Turin can see in the Champions League is Juventus.
Returning to the Vallet district of Turin, Italy, their first UEFA Champions League match this year is about to usher in a full-seater stadium built only for football.
The Juventus Arena in Italy is now renamed "Allianz Stadium". It is a stadium specially built for football projects. It is a brand new stadium picked up on the original site of the Del Alpe Stadium. Previously, Juventus and Turin shared a stadium.
Here, Juventus won a total of seven trophys, and it is also all Serie A trophys since its inception.
It was at this Juventus Fudi Stadium that the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals kicked off.
Chapter completed!