La Stampa 18/03/00
A couple of things about Edgar Davids: never, repeat, never ask him
personal questions during interviews and always remember to turn off your
cellular phones. This is the advice given by journalists so that you might
get an idea of Davids' personality. Some teammates didn't know what to do
even when Davids's son was born, since he wanted to keep the news a secret
and his teammates didn't know if to congratulate him or ignore the issue.
Numbers about the Turin Derby:
1. It's the first Italian derby. The first match was played January 13th,
1907: Torino-Juventus 2-1.
2. The biggest comebacks: March 7th, 1982, from 0-2 to 4-2 for Juve, with 2
goals by Gaetano Scirea and single scores by Liam Brady and Marco Tardelli.
March 27th, 1983, in 3 minutes, the score goes from 0-2 to 3-2 for Toro,
goals by Beppe Dossena, Bonesso, and Torrisi.
4. Number of players that scored with both teams in the derby: Guglielmo
Gabetto (5 Juve, 5 Toro), Silvio Piola (3 Juve, 2 Toro), Vittorio
Sentimenti (4 Juve, 1 Toro), Aldo Serena (1 Juve, 1 Toro).
8. Hat-tricks scored in the derby: 6 by Toro players, 2 by Juve players. The last one was made by Gianluca Vialli, December 3rd, 1995: Juventus-Torino 5-0.
13. Goals by Giampiero Boniperti (in 21 matches), leading scorer in the derby.
14. Goals scored in the highest-scoring derby: December 9th, 1913, Torino-Juventus 8-6.
156. Derby played in Serie A: 60 victories for Juve, 45 ties, 51 victories for Toro.
215. Total number of derbies played: 84 victories for Juventus, 57 ties, 74 victories for Torino, 321 goals scored by Juve, 300 by Torino.
Pierluigi Collina will referee Juventus for the first time since
Lazio-Juventus 0-1, April 5th, 1998. After Filippo Inzaghi scored, Collina didn't see an handball by Mark Iuliano (always him, isn't it?) on a corner kick while trying to defend against Pierluigi Casiraghi.
The Primavera team will play against Cesena today in an away game. Coach Giampiero Gasperini was forced to call 5 players from the Allievi team (Stefano Rondinella, Felice Piccolo, Mattia Cassani, Filippo Gattari, and Matteo Paro) due to the many players missing. Domenico Maietta has a knee sprain, Alessandro Frara has an ankle sprain, Fabio Bracco, Salvatore Papa, and Andrea Gasbarroni all have the flu, Marco Gorzegno and Massimiliano Marchio have to serve a 1-match suspension, Marco Rigoni was called up by Carlo Ancelotti, and Andreas Isaksson's tendon inflammation became acute again. Moreover, Giuseppe Sculli has a back problem and, even though he has joined the team, he won't play.
The Primavera will play this Wednesday a league match against Piacenza.
