- Title: SOCCER-JUVENTUS/TRAINING Juventus train for Champions League final
- Date: 1st June 2015
- Summary: TURIN, ITALY (JUNE 1, 2015) (REUTERS) JUVENTUS PLAYERS ARRIVING ON PITCH COACH MASSIMO ALLEGRI AND PLAYER CARLOS TEVEZ ARRIVING ON PITCH JUVENTUS TEAM TRAINING VARIOUS JUVENTUS PLAYERS WARMING UP CARLOS TEVEZ IN CENTRE OF PLAYERS STRETCHING DEFENDER GIORGIO CHIELLINI IN CENTRE OF PLAYERS STRETCHING MIDFIELDER ANDREA PIRLO WARMING UP GOALKEEPER GIANLUIGI BUFFON IN GREEN JAC
- Embargoed: 16th June 2015 13:00
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- Location: Italy
- Country: Italy
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri brought his players onto the pitch on Monday (June 1) for one of their final training sessions before playing the final of the Champions League.
The Turin-based club comfortably secured a fourth straight Serie A title, beat Lazio to win the Italian Cup and will take on Barcelona in the Champions League final in Berlin on 6 June.
Italian sides can no longer match the spending power of clubs from Spain, England and Germany and reaching the semi-finals in itself is regarded as a success for Juventus, the first Serie A side to progress to the last four since Inter Milan in 2010.
Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri has already surpassed his predecessor Antonio Conte who won three successive Serie A titles but never managed to get beyond the Champions League quarter-finals where his side were crushed 4-0 on aggregate by Bayern Munich two years ago.
Allegri was greeted with suspicion by Juventus fans when he replaced Conte in June last year, but has won the supporters over by winning Serie A this season and bettering Conte's European record. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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