How long does somebody have to suck at their job before they get fired? This question is the story of Juventus’s season thus far. For those who are not familiar with Italian football, Juventus Football Club is a professional football club based in Turin Italy. They compete in the top Italian football league, Serie A. Juventus are an Italian football giant with very high expectations every year, but the 2022-2023 season is not going as planned. The biggest part of the problem is easily our manager, Max Allegri.
Allegri used to be known as a great manager, as he lead Juventus to a league title every year from 2014-2019, but ever since he returned to the team in 2021, he has been a very suspect manager. Juventus had a frustrating 2022 season, but ended on a high note, so expectations were high coming into the year. In the present, Juventus was just embarrassingly eliminated from the Champions League (Europe’s most prestigious club football tournament) and are sitting at 7th place in the Italian league. 7th place is horrendous for a team like Juventus. Max Allegri puts together a horrible game plan every game, and sets up horrible offensive and defensive alignments. His time has been up for quite some time, and fans have been calling for him to get sacked. The management is refusing to make a coaching change and it is really frustrating because a new coach would greatly help this Juventus squad.
Although Allegri is a big part of the problem, injuries have played a big part in our downfall. The best Italian football player, Federico Chiesa, has missed the whole season because of a torn ACL in 2021. Luckily, he is making his way back and might return in a couple of weeks. On top of this, top players Angel Di Maria, Paul Pogba, Mattia de Sciglio, and Weston Mckennie have all missed significant time. It is hard to win games when you are missing so many important players. All seems lost at this point, but one could ask, where does Juventus go from here? The answer is up, because this team can’t go any lower than they are now. Juve needs to put their champions league elimination behind them, and grind away in Serie A. We can’t keep taking worse opponents lightly, and we have to treat every game like it is our last. If Juventus can somehow pull away and become the champions of Italy, everyone will put the early season failures behind them.
John, I know absolutely nothing about Italian football, but this blog made me want to learn more. I feel terrible that the team came in 7th after having had such amazing previous seasons. I wish them the best for the future, and they can always come back from this. Great Job!
I can’t say i’d ever heard of Juventus, but it’s super cool to learn about! You did a great job structuring this blog in a way that helps readers easily understand what you’re talking about, and gets them hooked and interested in a topic they likely had no idea about prior to reading. Another super interesting and informational blog, great work!!
I didn’t know about the Juventus before reading this blog, and I could still read it all the way through and understand everything. Just shows how amazing you are at your understanding and explanations of any form to sport that you’re covering! and it sucks that The Juventus had a terrible season, and hoping that they would recover from their injuries and develop a plan enough to win them the Champions of Italy.