World Cup preparation: 90 short minutes about the drama queen on the stage of world football
What kind of publisher is it that makes books like this and always allows for new, amazing adjacencies in its programmes? It's Berenberg. Now ZEIT Italy correspondent and SZ sports reporter Birgit Schönau is publishing a vade mecum there about probably Europe's most storied club: Juventus Turin. "La Fidanzata" it headlines - the fiancée, as devoted fans call their club. Others deride Juve as the Old Lady. Trophies, tragedies and scandals. For nearly 100 years, Juve has been owned by the Agnelli family, who are as dazzling as they are powerful and who, in addition to the club, own the Fiat car company. While investors from all over the world transform football into a gigantic entertainment industry, Juventus still remains a family business, albeit with footballers of world renown: from Boniperti to Zidane, from Khedira to Buffon to Zoff. Together with journalist and author Christoph Schröder ("I whistle!") Birgit Schönau looks with you behind the black and white facade of this Italian bride and discovers in her colorful entourage communists, cardinals, king's sons and revolutionary leaders.
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