Juve ready to go top

January 6, 2000
Juventus Official Site

By making the most of Lazio's set back at Venezia, Juventus could go clear at the top of Serie A. The main obstacle to Juve achieving this aim will be a battling Verona team, who will arrive at the Delle Alpi with confidence high after a three match unbeaten run in the league. Carlo Ancelotti is calling on his players to be totally focused on the match at hand and not fall prey to the so-called smaller clubs as Juve have already done on occasion this season. The Juve coach should only make two changes to an otherwise unchanged side with Gianluca Zambrotta coming in for his namesake Gianluca Pessotto and Igor Tudor replacing Paolo Montero who since returning from Uruguay has only managed two training sessions.

La Repubblica today reports two interesting facts on Juventus stars, Alessandro Del Piero and Edgar Davids. The first of which was unearthed by Maurizio Crosetti during an interview with Del Piero about his studies at the University of Urbino, where he has embarked on a four-year course (22 exams) in Sociology. Del Piero who attends courses two or three times per week explains: "It's about issues relevant to society and the times we live in. And something that can help a sportsman approach life after sport without feeling like an alien or worse." Michael Zebboudj, the course administrator remarked: "He is a model student. Here there is nowhere to hide as every three lessons there is a test. Del Piero had already studied English with us and then decided to try for a degree. We are sure he will succeed in his endeavours. He joins in student activities and attends student functions and parties. He is a nice guy."

Many fans have contacted juventus.com requesting information on where they can purchase the book "Caro Alex ti scrivo" [Dear Alex I write to you] by Xavier Iacobelli and Deborah Bonetti. For further information, please contact: www.italway.it/aziende/smsportevents/

The other interesting fact reported by La Repubblica concerns Edgar Davids. "Super fast birth by Davids' partner. Back at home eight hours later," ran the headline. The story continued: "The baby named Gyatso, which weighed in at just over three kilos caused a bit of a stir on 29 December at the Sant'Anna hospital, when its twenty-two year old mother Sarah Hagens checked herself out of hospital only eight hours after giving birth..."
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