When we come across the words ?Italian passion?, most of us would probably think of two ideas immediately. The first idea is calcio or Italian football and the second is Formula One racing. Italian football can be traced back since the sixteenth century and still going strong in the present years. Formula One competitions can also trace back its popularity because of great winning records by Italian race drivers. The first Formula One or F1 champion is an Italian named Giuseppe Farina. Among the football teams which have made Italy famous for soccer is Juventus. Let us take a deeper look into this Italian football club considered as a sport passion among Italians and the entire world.



The Juventus Football Club is a worldwide popular football club based in Turin, Italy. It is one of the oldest Italian football clubs having been formed in 1897. Since then, the Juve, as the team is also called has made an amazing history composed of spectacular wins and great players. This long standing Italian club has continued to reap pounds of success as it is considered as the most successful teams in Italian football history. It boasts of a total of fifty-one trophies wherein forty is from local games while eleven are from European and worldwide competitions. These vast collection of trophies from a single team have been collected over the decades from FIFA World Cup, UEFA Cup, European Championships and numerous Italian Football Championship competitions.

With these great feats and the continued line of success, it is no big wonder why the Juventus Football Club has the widest fan base in all of Italy. In many countries in the world, there are also fans which vouch for the greatness of this football club. In fact, there are approximately 170 million fans scattered both inside Italy and in many countries in the world. With its amazing win record and its wide fan base, the Juve has also been a longstanding member of Europe's most prestigious clubs association, the European Club Association, a product of the old G-14.

Juventus is also home to great players which have made Italy known in the world of football. Rossi and Platini made their marks as Juventus players in the 1980s. In the middle part of the 1990s, a wave of great Juve players dominated the football scene. Such players include Ferrarra, Baggio, Vialli and Del Pierro. In the late 90s, the Juve Club won a series of competitions such as the European Super Cups. Zidane, Inzaghi and Davids were considered the club's great players of this time.

The Italian football club Juventus can be considered as the top Italian team based from total wins. However, Italy also boasts of other great football teams such as Roma, Milan, Internazionale, Fiorentina, and Torino. The football legacy in Italy is not only given due to Juve but to all the great teams and players who have sacrifice much for the worldwide prestige in football. It is no big wonder why generations of the past and present have long instilled this culture of sportsmanship, teamwork, discipline and hard work among their youth.