Juventus Stadium
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- Home Games of Juventus
- UEFA Europa League 2013/14
The Juventus Stadium is a pure football stadium in the Italian city of Turin, in which the Italian giants Juventus plays its home games.
The opening took place on 8 September 2011. The name of the stadium is expected to change as the company Sportfive has rights to the name. The Juventus Stadium was built on the site in the north of Turin, on the 1990-2009 was the Stadio delle Alpi. The most striking feature of the stadium's construction are the two 86 -meter-high pillar on the north and south sides behind the goals. They carry on steel ropes the roof structure.
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History
The former Juventus CEO Jean -Claude Blanc presented in January 2007, a new plan for an arena, similar to the Imtech Arena in Hamburg. The new stadium should have about 41,000 seats and cost around 105 million euros. The entire project should be linked to the awarding of the 2012 European Football Championship in Italy. On 18 April 2007, UEFA decided, however, that the European Championship would be held in 2012 in Poland and Ukraine.
Nevertheless, the association published in November 2008, the final design for the new building. As architects Hernando Suarez and Gino Zavanella were recovered. The entire complex is home to the new stadium with 41,000 seats and an entertainment center with several restaurants and shops and 4,000 parking spaces. In the end, the cost of building the new home of Juve totaled 120 million euro.
Since the season 2006/ 07 contributed Juventus and city rivals Torino FC play their home games at the Stadio Olimpico, the Stadio Comunale converted from. After the conversion of the delle Alpi Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino should be renamed to become sole home of FC Turin.
The Juventus stadium was opened on 8 September 2011. For the first game, Juve ran against English club Notts County, the oldest professional football club in the world, of which one 1903, the white-black- striped jerseys took over. The two teams parted with a 1-1 draw; the first goal at the stadium scored the Juve striker Luca Toni. He turned a Fabio Quagliarella of previously missed penalty in the margin. Three days later, the first competitive game on the second matchday of Serie A took place. In the 4-1 win against FC Parma Swiss Stephan Lichtsteiner could score the first goal in the new arena in a competitive match.
On March 20, 2012 it was announced that the final of the Europa League season will 2013/14 to take place in Juventus Stadium.
Facilities
Juventus Museum
The club Juventus Museum Museum or just J- Museum was built according to plans by architect Benedetto Camerana and opened on 17 May 2012. There are in different rooms, among other winners' trophies, images from the history of the club issued and recalled the key players of Juve. There will also be an interactive area. On the 25th anniversary of the disaster at Heysel 29 May 2010 club president Andrea Agnelli announced that a special room for the 39 victims of the stadium disaster would be set up.
Area 12
The Area 12 is a dedicated in October 2011 shopping mall with an area of around 30,000 square meters and more than 60 shops, including clothing, footwear and household goods stores and Juventus Fan Shop Store. The owner is the San Sisto Srl and the cost amounted to about 200 million euros. Mitbeteilig in the project were the company Nordiconad, Cmb Carpi and Unieco as well as the architecture firm Studio Rolla from Turin and Tecnicoop from Bologna. The operator of Area 12 is the CBRE. One of the largest stores in the center is open daily and the E. Leclerc - CONAD - hypermarket is one with 4,500 m², where you order the goods through the Internet and can pick up ready packed. Furthermore, an OBI, a H & M clothing store and a Euronics electrical appliances market. The visitors can also open several restaurants and bars. There are 2,000 parking spaces at the shopping center, of which 800 are underground, are available.
Walk of Fame
How modeled after the Hollywood Walk of Fame 50 -deserved player of the history of Juventus were honored with a star in the stadium. An internal Commission adopted in 2009 a pre-selection. From a list of over 100 players club and fan club members then chose from the 50 players. In the first selection, the Dutchman Edgar Davids was not among the players selected. There were massive protests from fans who prefer David wanted to see as the Poland Zbigniew Boniek among the honored athletes. Then, a second election was scheduled in early 2010. Of the total 12,655 votes cast Edgar Davids received 7,401 votes ( 58.48 %). By far the Boniek followed with 659 votes ( 5.21% ) and in third place with 512 votes, Michael Laudrup (4.05 %).
Gallery
Construction in June 2010
Interior ( East Stand )