All or Nothing: Juventus

The most difficult thing is to turn this group of 25 people into a team.

You must teach the new players the qualities

that allowed Juventus to become a winning team,

hard work and being a family.

I like having responsibilities, I like being under pressure.

After each game, there can be criticism.

I went through that as a player, I'll go through it as a coach.

Now, that's a nice one.

The word Juventus means victory.

We play to win it all every year.

To me, Turin is the city where... where I became great.

My family is here,

and if my family is with me, I can go to the Moon.

And then Juventus is above everything else.

Everyone needs to be focused and centered around a single goal,

the final victory.

The ambition is always the same, to win and play well.

Nothing else matters.

If you do the things that are right, you'll be better than the others.

Even if I'm 43 years old and I'm still here,

I still feel like a player,

because I want to get my hands dirty and give my all to win.

It's Ronaldo. Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldo.

Ronaldo with his left foot. What a cross!

Go, Fede! Go, Fede!

-Strong, go, go, go! It's a red. -No!

Ramsey runs toward the goal.

Shoot!

McKennie. It's two for Juventus!

-Go, go, go! -It's a foul!

We are not playing to win.

It's the game of a lifetime, can't win one challenge.

We can't play like this if we want to win the title.

Like this, we won't win.

It's a difficult year, a year of big decisions, of brave choices.

We built a new team.

I mean, seasons are still important, even when you're trying to grow.

Chiesa, at the edge.

Rabiot, Rabiot, he shoots!

Dybala!

Goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal.

Juventus has the advantage!

Juve, Juve!

Olé!

TURIN AUGUST 2020

A new season of football is about to begin,

and Juventus is ready to face radical changes

to keep their place among the best clubs in the world.

The news of this Saturday is the new beginning for Juventus.

RADIO 24 - FROM "TUTTI CONVOCATI" 8TH AUGUST 2020

Maurizio Sarri is out,

dismissed after the Champions League failure,

Andrea Pirlo in.

He is a first-timer since he has never coached before.

He can be an added value and give Juventus a new start,

and give back some of the juventinità that the team had lost with Sarri.

There is respect for a football legend like...

like him, absolutely.

Andrea Pirlo is a football legend.

As a player he won everything,

dictating the refined style that earned him the nickname "Maestro".

But none of us, no one, has a clue. No one can know how he will be.

If he'll be like Guardiola or just another average coach.

After battling together with Juventus and the national team,

now Pirlo and Buffon are together again, but in an unprecedented situation.

Between me and Andrea there is... brotherhood.

His failure would be also a personal failure for me.

And our number one, the champion, Gianluigi...

Buffon!

The Agnelli family, owners of the club since 1923,

led Juventus to unprecedented successes.

The team dominated the last decade, winning nine Serie A titles.

An unparalleled record in the history of European football.

At the center of this incredible series of victories,

a group of old friends now together perhaps for the last time.

They'll lead the growth of the new players in this year of changes.

That season, the season of the first title of this era...

GIANLUIGI BUFFON GOALKEEPER

...we ended it with no defeats.

I must say that I remember that evening with great pleasure.

Well, this is Quaglia, and then Leo, Chiello and Andrea Pirlo.

This is a sort of seven eleven, right?

Yes, a group... of hotheads that also have a great connection.

This is an essential value if you want to reach great goals.

I didn't expect Andrea to coach Juventus so soon.

GIORGIO CHIELLINI DEFENDER

We are not talking of a teammate that quit,

ten years ago and who is much older.

Andrea, in a way, started this winning streak for... Juventus.

When I heard that Pirlo would coach, I was happy but also surprised.

CRISTIANO RONALDO FORWARD

But I remember how it was to play at Real Madrid with Zidane.

He has been inside the dressing room and knows how we think.

You know...

LEONARDO BONUCCI DEFENDER

...when you've lived for so long with a great player

like the coach was... over the years,

it was exciting to see him on the other side.

The man who leads the vision of the club

is the president, executive chairman Andrea Agnelli

who, despite winning the title last year with another coach,

has new ideas and expectations for the team.

I've been president of Juventus for ten years.

When I look at last year, I... I tell you from the heart,

despite the things we won, last year was a shitty year, in my opinion.

Someone, even here, didn't give their best.

If I think of all the effort that the women and men at Juventus,

and we're 800,

we go on the pitch as 800, we win as 800 and we lose as 800.

We are a team, we must be united,

we must all pull in the same direction, no matter what.

I made a choice for the new coach that I strongly believe in.

But now it's up to the extended team to follow him no matter what, every day.

It will be a difficult year, I have the excitement I used to have.

Anyone who dares touch any one of you will have to face me first.

The rest is up to you.

DRESSING ROOM

This could be the last season for many of the older players.

Their example will be crucial for the new players.

Professionalism, charisma, will to always give the best.

Great, Gigione!

Come on, the head there.

He really thinks that the body is fundamental.

And it's partially true.

But in the end, it's just the head, guys. The energy you have in here.

-How is it? -Well, the weight is good, I'd say. 94.5.

Good... No, it's very good.

-Bye, Cri. -Bye.

The urine has a nice color, right?

I'm my own doctor, my own physician. My own mental coach.

My nutritionist, my physician.

If you do the things that are right, you'll be better than the others.

For example, I'll sunbathe for 20 minutes, and I know it will help me.

The sun is good for your body.

Obviously, if I'm here all day, it'll be bad for me and I'll get lines.

But 30 minutes make me feel well.

-At 36 years old, I'm still here... -You need to wear a shirt!

No!

The sponsor!

The sponsor is gone.

CARLO PINSOGLIO GOALKEEPER

You don't have much hair to cut.

-This way we can hide... -This.

Baldness and white hair.

This year, Juventus decided that the policy was to lower the age...

the age average to build a cycle,

like when... when I arrived ten years ago.

I've been lucky to get to Juventus

and find Buffon, Del Piero, Chiellini, Marchisio next to me,

who taught me what it meant to wear this jersey.

You couldn't...

You couldn't say,

"Today, I don't feel like it, I won't push much"...

LEONARDO BONUCCI DEFENSE

...because, after training, someone would come and pull your ears.

This is what we, now that we are the seniors,

must teach the new arrivals.

Thank you, Marco, Sam, everyone. Good luck with your work and your cuts.

Juventus must rebuild.

There are four or five main things to do...

it cannot be a market of... of pure preservation.

There is no ideal solution, it's not all smooth.

And I'm also curious to see

how Pirlo will set up the team tactically

because we've never really seen him.

But Juventus needs a striker, a number nine.

The man responsible for the radical change of Pirlo's team

is the managing director football area, Fabio Paratici.

It has been a difficult year,

a year of big choices, also of brave choices.

Because you cannot win without building.

That's what the president instilled in all of us,

we must change before changing.

We have many goalkeepers.

We'll keep an eye on defenders.

De Ligt is not with us until 15th of November.

In three, four months.

A striker...

-since Higuaín is leaving. -Yes.

That's necessary.

Over the years, Juventus signed some of the best players in the world,

such as Platini, Zidane, Baggio, and Del Piero.

In ten years working with the team, Paratici kept up the tradition,

and in 2018, surprised everyone

by signing the most expensive player in the history of football,

Cristiano Ronaldo.

How can I tell the president about this idea?

I made a preliminary remark.

TURIN

I said, "One, don't laugh.

Two, don't throw me out of the office.

"Let me finish, I'll explain everything, and we'll make our considerations.

"We could get Cristiano."

The president made half a smile, but I continued saying,

"If I stop, I'll never say it," so I continued.

But with the finances heavily hit by the COVID crisis,

Paratici is moving cautiously,

searching for new talent but with an eye on the balance.

And we need strikers.

So you need to know that this is the negotiation and this is the situation.