This victory crowned the efforts of the Club's pioneers, under Swiss president Alfredo Dick, with the help of a number of foreign players. Mr. Dick soon left the Club, however, after losing support from the majority of players, and founded his own soccer team, called Turin. He took with him a number of valuable foreign players.

The following years were not so easy for the team, and up to the First World War Italian soccer was dominated by Pro Vercelli and Casale. Juventus regained a high position just after the war. At that time the President was Corradini, a poet and man of letters. In 1923 the Club's Members unanimously elect as new President Edoardo Agnelli, son of the founder of the Fiat automobile company. The Club has now its own soccer field.

In the 1930s, with Carlo Carcano as a trainer and players such as Orsi, Caligaris, Monti, Cesarini, Varglien I and II, Bertolini, Ferrari and Borel II, the team won five consecutive national titles. This uninterrupted string of trophies went from 1930 to 1935, and at the same time players from the Club gave an important contribution to the Italian national team, which won the World Cup in Rome in 1934.

The Club's first steps in the international arena date to the same period, when it participated in the European Cup, illustrious ancestor of the Winner's Cup, reaching the semifinals four times. In 1947 Gianni Agnelli (see photo), son of Edoardo who had died tragically in a plane crash in 1935, became President. At this time the Club's most representative players were Carlo Parola, Hansen, Praest and Giampiero Boniperti, who was to become the Club's recordman for games played (444) and goals scored (177).

Juventus won again the National championship in 1950 and 1952. In 1953 Giovanni Agnelli was elected President, a position demanded two years later to his brother Umberto. The Club won the national championship in 1958, 1960, and 1961 with players such as Omar Sivori and John Charles, becoming the first soccer Club in Italy to have won ten national championships (1958).

Juventus returned to win in 1967, under Vittore Catella's presidency: the Club won nine national championships in fifteen years ('72/'86) plus all there was to win in the international arena: UEFA Cup (first success in 1977), Winner's Cup (1984), European Cup, Supercup and World Club Championship (1985). In these years the team was coached by Vycpalek, Parola and, above all, Giovanni Trapattoni. This was the time of great Italian players (from Zoff to Scirea, from Tardelli to Cabrini, from Causio to Paolo Rossi, Gentile, Furino, Anastasi and the current vice president Roberto Bettega) but also of foreign champions such as Michel Platini (see photo), who played for Juventus five seasons, winning two national championships, two European Cups, one World Club Championship, three times top scorer of the year and three golden balls.

These incredibly proliferous times were inevitably followed by less glorious moments, but in 1990 Juventus won both the UEFA Cup and the Italian Cup (under today's president Vittorio Caissotti di Chiusano, who took over from Boniperti, and coach Dino Zoff) and again in 1993 the UEFA Cup.

And last year, after nine years, Juventus won the national title once again and again the Italian Cup, a trophy the team won nine times since 1938. The League Super Cup game has been played against Parma, the other finalist in the 1994-1995 Italian Cup, and Juventus, for the first time, won it. Together with the national titles also international successes came, after an excellent Champions League season Juventus plays the final game for the title of European Champions against Ajax. A very aggressive game, but after the regular time the score is 1 all. Nothing happens during the extra time so the title is decided by penalty kicks. At the end, the Italian team's good performance makes the game.