The fifteen Juventus champions most loved by the Agnelli family

Edoardo, Gianni, Umberto, Andrea. Each Bianconeri president has had his favorite players, not always and not just for the class. Putting them in line can be nothing more than a fascinating and impossible game, if only for the fact that Edoardo and his nephew Andrea have not seen even one in common (text by Sergio Baldini)

15) Peter Anastasi . Inter had practically taken him, with whom he was playing a friendly during which a photographer informed him that Varese had sold him to Juve: Agnelli had convinced Borghi, owner of Varese and Ignis, adding a supply of engines to the price for refrigerators.eri.

14) Paolo Rossi . He was compared to Leonardo's Mona Lisa by Giussy Farina, president of Vicenza who in 1978, to resolve the attacker's co-ownership deal with Juventus in his favor, valued him at 2 billion and 400 million, a figure that caused a scandal. Strongly wanted by the lawyer, Boniperti and Trapattoni, Rossi was bought back by Juve in 1981, despite his being disqualified for football betting. And by training in black and white he prepared for the triumphant 1982 World Cup.

13) Roberto Baggio . The nostalgia of a beauty who had vanished from the Juventus field with Platini's farewell to football (and also the nostalgia of victory, which had done the same) in 1990 prompted the lawyer to buy Roberto Baggio from Fiorentina. A love tormented and initially not reciprocated by Baggio, then withered in Agnelli who during the 1994 World Cup compared his appearance before the match against Mexico (and before the Divine Codino got in shape and dragged Italy to the final) to that of "a wet rabbit". A love which, however, had previously prompted the lawyer to compare Baggio to Raphael.

12) George Chiellini . In 2004 one of the first purchases following the death of Umberto Agnelli and then a pillar of Andrea's Juve and his friend. Perfect example of Juve style also in the ferocious grit on the pitch and in the absolute education off.

11) Gianluigi Buffon . The link between Umberto Agnelli's Juventus, with Bettega, Giraudo and Moggi at the helm, and Andrea's was Gigi Buffon, Zoff's heir capable of even surpassing the master. He made it in time to win, earning the applause of the Avvocato, as well as those of the Doctor, and then became a pillar of Andrea's Juve victories, of which he is a true friend. In between, when Gianni and Umberto were already gone, the choice that made him one of the black and white symbols, that of staying in Serie B at the height of his career and when he was the best goalkeeper in the world as well as world champion.

10) Dino Zoff . He was the perfect emblem of many aspects of that "Juventus Style": sobriety, elegance, charisma, elegance, determination. A Juventus goalkeeper in the 1970s and early 1980s, he defended the beginning of the Bianconeri's climb to Europe, winning the 1977 UEFA Cup, Juventus' first international trophy.

9) Charles Word . Passed from the Fiata team to the Juve youth team, he made his debut in the first team in 1939 and in 1947, when Gianni Agnelli became president, he was the leader and central defender (centromediano, to use the exact term of the time). As well as in 1949-50 and 1951-52 when Juve won the first two Scudetti with the lawyer as president. And just in the first of those two championships Parola was photographed while he performed the most famous of his bicycle kicks, which later became the symbol of the Panini stickers, to fend off an opponent's throw.

8) Paul Montero . He embodied the warrior spirit that the Agnellis have always appreciated, but also combined with the left foot of a great defensive playmaker. For Andrea then he was the idol of adolescence, for that grit - but let's call it wickedness, in the sporting sense of the term - that made him adored by millions of fans.

7) Roberto Bettega . Forward who still today would be defined as modern, for his ability to withdraw and participate in the game, and at the same time ancient, for his prowess and malice in the penalty area. Example of determination in reacting to illnesses and injuries, like Boniperti, albeit to a less incisive extent in his second capacity, was a star on the field (in the Avvocato's Juve) and president (in the one that had the Doctor as guardian deity) and winner in both roles.

6) John Charles . Umberto, in 1955, became the youngest president in black and white history. And two years later Juve's reconstruction began with its first big coup, a few weeks before that of Sivori: the purchase of John Charles from Leeds. A signing that marks an era and the birth of one of the strongest Juventus ever, a centre-forward loved for strength and loyalty.

5) Raimundo Orsi . The first champion in Juventus history. He became the star of the five Scudetti in a row between 1931 and 1935, making the lawyer dream, and as a native he also conquered the World Cup with Italy in 1934, Umberto's birth year.

4) Alessandro Del Piero . Frictions are also part of loves. The one between the Agnelli family and Alessandro Del Piero was no exception, whom we ideally place at the foot of the podium because he united two generations, that of the lawyer and the doctor and that of Andrea. And never mind if there was friction with Andrea, at the moment in which the then president decided that Pinturicchio's story at Juventus had come to an end. Pinturicchio, formerly: Renaissance painter to whom Gianni Agnelli compared the young Del Piero. In almost two decades he became the man of records in the history of Juventus, making Gianni and Umberto rejoice and then also signing Andrea's first Scudetto as president.

3) Giampiero Boniperti . Elegance and rigor, one of the first purchases of the lawyer who was immediately fascinated by the peasant's cunning: they had agreed that for each goal he would give him a cow and he always chose a pregnant one. Perhaps he ignited the Agnellis less with purely fan passion, but he perhaps enjoyed even greater consideration off the pitch, so much so that he was entrusted with the task of rebuilding Juventus in the 1970s as president, a role he held until 1990 and then held again from 1991 to 1994, until he became the icon of Juventus.

2) Omar Sivori . Umberto Agnelli's greatest coup as president, wanted with such strength and fan passion as to make him say "And I'm buying it anyway!" to the executives who advised against buying it because it was too expensive. As for the lawyer, the mix of dazzling talent and fascinating rebellious spirit of the Argentine bewitched him to the point of making him perhaps coin the most ingenious of his many ingenious definitions: «Sivori is like a vice: you know it hurts, but you can't help it."

1) Michel Platini . One of those who made two generations dream: a hit on the market and Gianni's favorite champion, admired by Umberto, the idol of a child Andrea. Two generations and three members of the family, but Agnelli is undoubtedly the lawyer closest to Platini, for whom Le Roi, in addition to being a champion of sublime talent, almost represented an alter ego in the field for class, elegance, style and irony. "In Juve no one has ever been at his level and if, as I hope, one day someone should surpass him we will reluctantly admit it," he said of the Frenchman, to whom he gave a Platinum ball after Michel had given him for his 70th birthday. one of his three Ballon d'Ors.