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Ciao, a new member here. I come from a family of Serie A watchers but unfortunately, I am the ONLY juve fan. Hence, I hope to meet my ‘true family’ in this forum hahaha! I’ve been visiting this forum for ages now mainly due the the stream links. But I figured it’s time to contribute a bit by joining.
A little about myself, I used to be a semi-pro footballer in Guam. Never really turned serious due to my other passion, repairing cars
this is inspired by my french step-uncle who is a Motorsport driver that was ALSO once a footballer. He actually played in the English premier league for a short while. if you can guess.
Anyway, very excited to be here! Forza Juve!!!!
A little about myself, I used to be a semi-pro footballer in Guam. Never really turned serious due to my other passion, repairing cars
this is inspired by my french step-uncle who is a Motorsport driver that was ALSO once a footballer. He actually played in the English premier league for a short while. if you can guess.Anyway, very excited to be here! Forza Juve!!!!
Ciao, a new member here. I come from a family of Serie A watchers but unfortunately, I am the ONLY juve fan. Hence, I hope to meet my ‘true family’ in this forum hahaha! I’ve been visiting this forum for ages now mainly due the the stream links. But I figured it’s time to contribute a bit by joining.
A little about myself, I used to be a semi-pro footballer in Guam. Never really turned serious due to my other passion, repairing cars this is inspired by my french step-uncle who is a Motorsport driver that was ALSO once a footballer. He actually played in the English premier league for a short while. if you can guess.
Anyway, very excited to be here! Forza Juve!!!!
A little about myself, I used to be a semi-pro footballer in Guam. Never really turned serious due to my other passion, repairing cars
this is inspired by my french step-uncle who is a Motorsport driver that was ALSO once a footballer. He actually played in the English premier league for a short while. if you can guess.Anyway, very excited to be here! Forza Juve!!!!
hey guys ! New here
If you ever happen to have 5 minutes spare would you gladly answer my survey about Juve ? I promise it won't take you very long, and it may take you down memory lane
https://grenoble.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2m1D71dgjRDP0z4
Thank you all and have a nice one
If you ever happen to have 5 minutes spare would you gladly answer my survey about Juve ? I promise it won't take you very long, and it may take you down memory lane
https://grenoble.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2m1D71dgjRDP0z4
Thank you all and have a nice one
Ciao, a new member here. I come from a family of Serie A watchers but unfortunately, I am the ONLY juve fan. Hence, I hope to meet my ‘true family’ in this forum hahaha! I’ve been visiting this forum for ages now mainly due the the stream links. But I figured it’s time to contribute a bit by joining.
A little about myself, I used to be a semi-pro footballer in Guam. Never really turned serious due to my other passion, repairing cars this is inspired by my french step-uncle who is a Motorsport driver that was ALSO once a footballer. He actually played in the English premier league for a short while. if you can guess.
Anyway, very excited to be here! Forza Juve!!!!
A little about myself, I used to be a semi-pro footballer in Guam. Never really turned serious due to my other passion, repairing cars
this is inspired by my french step-uncle who is a Motorsport driver that was ALSO once a footballer. He actually played in the English premier league for a short while. if you can guess.Anyway, very excited to be here! Forza Juve!!!!
Since I’ve been reading this forum for decades and only recently started posting, I figured I should share a bit about myself. I don’t want anyone to think I’m just a fake account of some old poster who quit years ago. (Also, Galatasaray somehow scraped a lucky win against Liverpool tonight, so I’m in a foul mood and venting here feels like therapy.)
I’m a Turkish guy of Bosnian descent. Like every Turkish kid (and probably kids everywhere), I first supported the team my father and grandfathers supported; Beşiktaş. But on the morning of May 22, 1996, that completely changed.
Back then I was in elementary school 3rd grade. My deskmate Hasan was both the poorest kid in the class and the most talented one. The ball seemed glued to his feet, he’d dribble past everyone and score with ease. I, on the other hand, was the class’s only volunteer goalkeeper. Because Hasan was my deskmate and I was the only keeper, he always picked me for his team. But since that made us so strong, all the other good players would stack the opposing side just to balance things out.
I’ll never forget that Wednesday. Wednesdays meant the last two hours were P.E. class, which for us meant a proper match. The rivalry with the opposing team had gotten so intense it was almost boiling over into real fights. Weird as it sounds, even politics got mixed in, we considered ourselves “leftist” and “Kemalist” while the other side was mostly children of conservative and Islamist families.
That day, Hasan did something that changed my life. He pulled a yellow and navy jersey out of his bag and said, “Aras! ( my name btw, nice to meet you guys ) Today you’re wearing this!” I immediately snapped back, “What the hell is this? No way I’m wearing that, I’m not a damn Fenerbahçe fan!” Hasan just laughed and said, “Not every yellow and navy is Fenerbahçe you dumbass! This is Juventus! Today we’re gonna be Juventus. You’ll be Peruzzi, and I’ll be Del Piero!”
Hasan pulled out another jersey from his bag. It was probably fake, but it was black and white stripes (my team Beşiktaş colors btw). He put it on and turned to me: “How do I look?” he asked. And that was it! I instantly fell in love with everything about Juventus: the name, the logo, the jersey, and that SONY sponsor across the chest that meant so much to us back then. The yellow-and-blue shirt he had given me earlier was sold to me as a goalkeeper kit (turns out it was actually an away kit, but he didn’t even know that). That day we played amazing, won 7–1, and for the first time in my life I made a flying save. From then on, I kept doing it. We were playing on concrete in the schoolyard!
But here’s what I didn’t know: that day was May 22, 1996. My dad was a captain pilot, so we rarely watched matches together at home. But that evening he said: “The Champions League final is about to start. Forget school tomorrow, you can’t miss this one.” We sat down in front of the TV… and there they were. Juventus, wearing the exact yellow-and-blue kit I had just worn earlier that morning. The final dragged on, I fought to stay awake until penalties, and when we won the cup I was wide awake from the joy.
From that day on, I started carving the Juventus logo (the one in my profile pic) into my school desk with a knife. I was pretty good at drawing, so it looked legit. Since I never stopped talking about football with Hasan, the teacher kept moving me to different desks. But wherever I sat, I carved another Juve logo. In the end, every single desk in the classroom had a Juventus crest on it
Back then, communication was insanely limited. Getting any news from European football was next to impossible. We had no clue what the internet even was. Somehow you could find some news from England or Germany, but Italy and Spain? That was a completely different universe for us. Forget about watching Juventus games, even finding out who won the league or seeing the standings was almost a dream. Every now and then, very rarely, Turkish sports newspapers would print “Serie A standings” just to fill space.
And in those days, out of nowhere, came the big rumor: the infamous useless striker (and now national traitor) Hakan Şükür was linked with a move to Juventus! Del Piero was injured, Juve’s attack had taken a serious hit, and they were supposedly considering Şükür as a fix. For Turkey, at that time, this was massive news. A Turkish player, about to join the world’s biggest club, the reigning Champions League winners, Juventus! The TV, the newspapers... everything was flooded with it. The press dragged it on for weeks. For me, this was gold, because it meant daily Juventus coverage! Sadly, Juve quickly realized what a fucking lame donkey he was and passed. Instead, they signed another flop, Juan Esnáider, and a certain Thierry Henry.
During that whole saga, I discovered I could actually call up the sports newspapers’ news desks and ask for info. They didn’t always answer, but every few weeks I could at least get the scores and league table. Toward the end of the season, I called one of them again. I was 13 years old and just asked straight up: “Can you tell me who won the Italian league?” The guy on the other end paused for a bit and then said: “Lazio!” No way. A couple weeks earlier they had told me Juve were 6 points clear at the top, basically champions already. With Lippi, there was no chance of losing it. I slammed the phone down thinking: “These guys don’t know shit, they’re just messing with kids.” What I didn’t know was that Lippi had left Juve, and that we somehow lost the title on the very last matchday, slipping up against Perugia and handing it to Lazio.
By then, technology had moved forward a little. Not the internet yet, but something else that let me learn Juve’s squad and the league standings: computer games! Back then, football games didn’t come out every year. I knew the Vialli-Ravanelli-Del Piero Juve lineup by heart because it was in Sensible Soccer! But then came a game that did release every year: Championship Manager. Thanks to it, I finally knew who was in Juve’s squad, who left, who arrived, who the coach was, even how they did the previous season. It was a huge step forward for me. Finally, in 2001, the internet came to Turkey. It was insanely expensive, but even if I could only be online 10-15 minutes a day, I was reading Juventus news. That’s how my English started improving at a young age.
Forums were the main form of social media, and that’s how I ended up here. I think it was around 2004 or 2005. This site will always hold a special place for me because I learned so much about Juventus from here. My English wasn’t great back then. I could understand what I was reading, but since I was studying in a school with a heavy focus on German, I was hesitant to actually write. Now my English is good enough, but unfortunately, Juventus is far from its glory days.
Like I said, Galatasaray somehow managed to win again with their usual luck. I’m frustrated, lost a big bet, and instead of killing Arne Slot, I decided to write something here and dive a bit into nostalgia. If you made it this far, thanks for reading
I’m a Turkish guy of Bosnian descent. Like every Turkish kid (and probably kids everywhere), I first supported the team my father and grandfathers supported; Beşiktaş. But on the morning of May 22, 1996, that completely changed.
Back then I was in elementary school 3rd grade. My deskmate Hasan was both the poorest kid in the class and the most talented one. The ball seemed glued to his feet, he’d dribble past everyone and score with ease. I, on the other hand, was the class’s only volunteer goalkeeper. Because Hasan was my deskmate and I was the only keeper, he always picked me for his team. But since that made us so strong, all the other good players would stack the opposing side just to balance things out.
I’ll never forget that Wednesday. Wednesdays meant the last two hours were P.E. class, which for us meant a proper match. The rivalry with the opposing team had gotten so intense it was almost boiling over into real fights. Weird as it sounds, even politics got mixed in, we considered ourselves “leftist” and “Kemalist” while the other side was mostly children of conservative and Islamist families.
That day, Hasan did something that changed my life. He pulled a yellow and navy jersey out of his bag and said, “Aras! ( my name btw, nice to meet you guys
) Today you’re wearing this!” I immediately snapped back, “What the hell is this? No way I’m wearing that, I’m not a damn Fenerbahçe fan!” Hasan just laughed and said, “Not every yellow and navy is Fenerbahçe you dumbass! This is Juventus! Today we’re gonna be Juventus. You’ll be Peruzzi, and I’ll be Del Piero!”Hasan pulled out another jersey from his bag. It was probably fake, but it was black and white stripes (my team Beşiktaş colors btw). He put it on and turned to me: “How do I look?” he asked. And that was it! I instantly fell in love with everything about Juventus: the name, the logo, the jersey, and that SONY sponsor across the chest that meant so much to us back then. The yellow-and-blue shirt he had given me earlier was sold to me as a goalkeeper kit (turns out it was actually an away kit, but he didn’t even know that). That day we played amazing, won 7–1, and for the first time in my life I made a flying save. From then on, I kept doing it. We were playing on concrete in the schoolyard!
But here’s what I didn’t know: that day was May 22, 1996. My dad was a captain pilot, so we rarely watched matches together at home. But that evening he said: “The Champions League final is about to start. Forget school tomorrow, you can’t miss this one.” We sat down in front of the TV… and there they were. Juventus, wearing the exact yellow-and-blue kit I had just worn earlier that morning. The final dragged on, I fought to stay awake until penalties, and when we won the cup I was wide awake from the joy.
From that day on, I started carving the Juventus logo (the one in my profile pic) into my school desk with a knife. I was pretty good at drawing, so it looked legit. Since I never stopped talking about football with Hasan, the teacher kept moving me to different desks. But wherever I sat, I carved another Juve logo. In the end, every single desk in the classroom had a Juventus crest on it
Back then, communication was insanely limited. Getting any news from European football was next to impossible. We had no clue what the internet even was. Somehow you could find some news from England or Germany, but Italy and Spain? That was a completely different universe for us. Forget about watching Juventus games, even finding out who won the league or seeing the standings was almost a dream. Every now and then, very rarely, Turkish sports newspapers would print “Serie A standings” just to fill space.
And in those days, out of nowhere, came the big rumor: the infamous useless striker (and now national traitor) Hakan Şükür was linked with a move to Juventus! Del Piero was injured, Juve’s attack had taken a serious hit, and they were supposedly considering Şükür as a fix. For Turkey, at that time, this was massive news. A Turkish player, about to join the world’s biggest club, the reigning Champions League winners, Juventus! The TV, the newspapers... everything was flooded with it. The press dragged it on for weeks. For me, this was gold, because it meant daily Juventus coverage! Sadly, Juve quickly realized what a fucking lame donkey he was and passed. Instead, they signed another flop, Juan Esnáider, and a certain Thierry Henry.
During that whole saga, I discovered I could actually call up the sports newspapers’ news desks and ask for info. They didn’t always answer, but every few weeks I could at least get the scores and league table. Toward the end of the season, I called one of them again. I was 13 years old and just asked straight up: “Can you tell me who won the Italian league?” The guy on the other end paused for a bit and then said: “Lazio!” No way. A couple weeks earlier they had told me Juve were 6 points clear at the top, basically champions already. With Lippi, there was no chance of losing it. I slammed the phone down thinking: “These guys don’t know shit, they’re just messing with kids.” What I didn’t know was that Lippi had left Juve, and that we somehow lost the title on the very last matchday, slipping up against Perugia and handing it to Lazio.
By then, technology had moved forward a little. Not the internet yet, but something else that let me learn Juve’s squad and the league standings: computer games! Back then, football games didn’t come out every year. I knew the Vialli-Ravanelli-Del Piero Juve lineup by heart because it was in Sensible Soccer! But then came a game that did release every year: Championship Manager. Thanks to it, I finally knew who was in Juve’s squad, who left, who arrived, who the coach was, even how they did the previous season. It was a huge step forward for me. Finally, in 2001, the internet came to Turkey. It was insanely expensive, but even if I could only be online 10-15 minutes a day, I was reading Juventus news. That’s how my English started improving at a young age.
Forums were the main form of social media, and that’s how I ended up here. I think it was around 2004 or 2005. This site will always hold a special place for me because I learned so much about Juventus from here. My English wasn’t great back then. I could understand what I was reading, but since I was studying in a school with a heavy focus on German, I was hesitant to actually write. Now my English is good enough, but unfortunately, Juventus is far from its glory days.
Like I said, Galatasaray somehow managed to win again with their usual luck. I’m frustrated, lost a big bet, and instead of killing Arne Slot, I decided to write something here and dive a bit into nostalgia. If you made it this far, thanks for reading
