Juventus Torino Soccer News

MILAN, Italy (AP) _ Juventus wants Claudio Ranieri as its coach next season and will try to persuade him not to return to the English Premier League with Manchester City, according to Gazzetta dello Sport on Friday. Ranieri, who quit Parma Thursday after helping the Italian club avoid relegation from the Serie A, is Juve's first choice to replace Didier Deschamps after 2006 World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi ruled himself out, the Italian sports daily reported. Deschamps quit ...

Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro won the Golden Ball award Monday, the first defender in 10 years to be named Europe's best player. Cannavaro, who played for Juventus last season but then moved to Real Madrid after helping Italy win the World Cup, got 173 points in France Football magazine's annual poll of 52 journalists from around the world. Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was second with 124 points, followed by Arsenal ...

Juventus won its sixth straight match in Italy's Serie B and now has two points in 18th place. Cristiano Zanetti scored the lone goal in the 32nd minute to lead Juventus over Triestina 1-0 Saturday. The Turin team started the season with minus-17 points because of its role in a match-fixing scandal. ``We didn't play particularly well but we won and that is the most important thing,'' Zanetti said. ``We'll take the three points. We need them.'' Pavel Nedved ...

Cristiano Zanetti scored in the 31st minute as Juventus beat Treviso 1-0 in Serie B soccer action Monday for its fifth straight win. The victory improved Juventus to a league-best 5-1-0 record and left it one point short of erasing the 17-point penalty it received for its role in the Italian match-fixing scandal. Geneoa leads Serie B with 15 points. Mauro Camoranesi set up Zanetti's goal with a well-placed pass ...

Juventus is expecting a ``substantial'' reduction of its points penalty from Italy's match-fixing scandal after presenting its case before an arbitration board Wednesday. Juventus was stripped of its last two Serie A titles, demoted to Serie B and docked 17 points by a sports tribunal in July. ``We can expect a substantial reduction of the penalty,'' Juventus president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli said after the hearing, which lasted almost two hours. ...

The attacking partnership of David Trezeguet and Thierry Henry was once the envy of Europe. It now looks likely to be over after France's surprise defeat to Scotland. It is three years since the pair last combined well _ in a 3-0 away win against Germany _ and Trezeguet's future looks bleak after France's 1-0 loss in European Championship qualifying on Saturday. Since scoring the golden goal against Italy in ...

Juventus and three other clubs at the centre of Italy's match-fixing scandal could have their point penalties reduced by an arbitration board this week. The board, which was created by the Italian Olympic Committee but acts independently, is the highest grade of justice in Italian sports. Juventus, Lazio and AC Milan will appear before the board on Wednesday. Fiorentina will have its hearing Thursday. Juventus was stripped of its last ...

Defender Massimo Oddo scored twice in leading Lazio over Torino 4-0 in Serie A on Saturday. Atalanta was held to 1-1 by visiting Reggina in the only other Serie A match. In Serie B, David Trezeguet bagged both goals as demoted Juventus beat Piacenza 2-0. Oddo scored from the penalty spot in the 55th minute and deflected in a long-range shot 13 minutes later. Striker Tommaso Rocchi opened the scoring ...

Juventus sat back and enjoyed its new second-division status while Serie A leaders Inter Milan and AS Roma were losing midweek Champions League games. After drawing their season opener at Rimini, Juventus has won three straight, capped by a 4-0 drubbing of Modena last weekend. ``Those of us that stayed are happy because we've realized that Serie B isn't so bad,'' midfielder Pavel Nedved said. ``We're a little like rock ...

Argentina midfielder Javier Mascherano almost signed with Juventus, according to coach Didier Deschamps. ``He was very close to Juventus, but then other circumstances took over and it wasn't possible to get him,'' Deschamps said in Wednesday's edition of Italian daily Corriere dello Sport. Mascherano, who came to prominence at this year's World Cup, instead joined West Ham from Brazilian club Corinthians in August _ one of the biggest transfer coups ...