Turin, the capital of the Piedmont region, Italy's third largest city, is Europe's largest automobile producer and is also an ancient city with a long history, with a large number of classical and baroque buildings preserved to this day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The city is rich in culture and history, with numerous art galleries, churches, palaces, opera houses, gardens, museums, libraries and many cultural heritage sites. Turin is world-famous for its Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical French architecture, while museums such as the Egyptian Museum and the Minaret of Antonelli are also world-famous.

At the same time, the city was once one of the most important political centers in Europe, the first capital of Italy after the unification of history, and during the Second World War, it was the most important center of industry, commerce and trade in Europe.

It's a cosmopolitan city that combines classical tradition and modernity, but Turin is even more famous for its football atmosphere.

On the map, Italy's land area looks like a football boot from afar, and the football fanaticism of the national team is undoubted, and Turin is even more fanatical among the fanatics.

In this city, there are two famous European teams, one is called Torino Football Club, and the other is called Juventus Football Club.

The former is an established club in Italian football, having won a total of seven Serie A top-flight titles and five Coppa Italia titles.

The latter Juventus, nicknamed "The Old Lady", is one of the oldest clubs in Italy and the team that has won the most Serie A trophies, with a total of 34 league trophies, 5 Italian Super Cups, and 10 Italian Cups. They have also been impressive in Europe, winning two European Cups and three UEFA Cups.

If English football has entered the era of the Premier League, Manchester United is the undeserved number one giant of the Premier League, then Juventus can definitely be regarded as the number one giant of Serie A, although teams such as AC Milan and Inter Milan in Italy have also made shocking achievements, but only in terms of the league championship trophy, no Serie A team can compare with it.

This decorated Serie A giant has also produced countless top superstars for world football. Piero, Nedved, Zinedine Zidane, Gianluigi Buffon and other legends are all from this team, and even the current UEFA president Michel Brown. Platini was part of this team.

Juventus's glorious history and pivotal position in European football need no more to describe, but after the beginning of the new century, such a century-old club gradually fell into a slump, which broke out in 06 The phonegate scandal that shook world football was interpreted to its peak, Juventus was sent to the second division and was deprived of the league championship in 05 and 06.

After experiencing the time of the phone gate, the Serie A league, which was once known as the small World Cup, gradually went downhill, and Juventus, which was sent to the second division, was also struggling in a difficult situation. The likes of Piero, Nedved, Camoranesi, Gianluigi Buffon and Trezeguet, despite being penalised at the start of the season, Juventus started with a losing league points and eventually returned to the top flight a year later in the second division.

The old lady who returned to the top flight was like a new year, bringing in players on a large scale, strengthening the team, and regaining the league championship trophy at breakneck speed.

However, due to the decline of Serie A, although Juventus regained the dominance of Serie A, their results in Europe are hardly satisfactory. So far, their best result in the past few seasons has been to reach the quarter-finals.

And this season, they have once again reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and they are extremely forward and eager to take another step forward.

In fact, after returning to the top league, Juventus has been smooth sailing in the league, but it has repeatedly failed in the European arena, and the Premier League team is Juventus's biggest sufferer.

To be precise, with the decline of Serie A, the performance of Premier League teams in Europe has become stronger and stronger, and almost all Serie A teams have struggled to break through the blockade of Premier League teams and achieve good results in the Champions League.

Juventus has repeatedly encountered the resistance of Premier League teams, and after rushing out of the group stage, as long as they encounter the Premier League giants, they are basically sent home.

It is worth mentioning that in the 07 Champions League, Arsenal and Juventus met in the quarterfinals, and Arsenal easily kicked Juventus back to their hometown 2:0 over two legs home and away.

Juventus once again stopped in the quarter-finals, and since then the two teams have also formed a bond.

And this time the two teams met again in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Arsenal naturally wants to maintain the situation that the Premier League teams have a clear advantage over Serie A teams in recent years, while Juventus wants to break the "curse" and be ashamed.

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The away and home fixtures were a favourable factor for Arsenal, who were ready to travel to Italy's third-largest city, Turin, after hosting West Ham United at home to a narrow 1-0 win over West Ham United.

Unlike London, which is always foggy and hazy all year round, Turin is much cooler because of its backdrop to the Alps, but the temperature is much cooler than London, and although it is already mid-April, there is a fresh breeze blowing, which still makes people feel the chill in the air.

Qin Shou and his teammates came to this historic city, and did not encounter the fierce scene of being chased and intercepted by local fans in the novel, although there are some old grudges between Juventus and Arsenal, but to put it bluntly, it is just because of the competition on the football field, and the fans go to trouble with the visiting team at every turn, which can only be seen in a country like Turkey that is so fanatical about football that it loses its mind.

In Turin, the arrival of all the members of Arsenal did not attract the "hostility" of local fans, on the contrary, because there are many superstar players in the team, such as Sanchez and Ozil, there are also many supporters in the local area, especially Qin Shou, the new world footballer, is a large number of fans, so many local fans held posters and portraits of Qin Shou and others, and warmly greeted them at the door of the hotel where they stayed.

The pre-match preparations were also carried out in a step-by-step manner, with Arsenal going to Juventus' home stadium of the Alpi Stadium for acclimatis, in addition to doing some fitness exercises in the hotel's gym.

A big club has to have the courage of a big club, and although the two sides are about to meet each other, Juventus did not make any mistakes, nor did they add any obstacles, and they cooperated with the open pitch and allowed Arsenal to adapt to the training on the pitch.

A day later, the entire Arsenal squad stepped onto the Alpi Stadium again, and today is the official start of the game, and the two giants will face off in a fierce battle on the pitch.

When the team first arrived in Turin, many fans came to "chase the stars", holding portrait posters of Qin Shou, Ozil and others, shouting, asking for autographs and group photos, but today, the city's fans are unanimous to the outside world, and the stands that can accommodate more than 40,000 people are full, and the fans have made a huge noise, roaring and singing songs to cheer for the home team.

Before the start of the game, the two teams were warming up on the field, and Qin Shou also ran into Juventus' captain Buffon when he was moving his body. To be precise, this old woman's meritorious minister took the initiative to come over and talk to Qin Shou.

Ji'an Luigi. Gianluigi Buffon is one of the best goalkeepers in world football today, and there is no doubt that even the word "one" has been removed. The Italian goalkeeper, who played for Parma's first team at the age of 16, has been consistent in his nearly 20-year career, winning countless honors and honors, including league, Champions League and World Cup titles.

Although he is now over 35 years old, he is still in great form, and he is the undisputed number one goalkeeper for Juventus and the Italian national team. And the reason why he can be called the world's No. 1 goalkeeper is because after so many years of career ups and downs, in the process, many excellent goalkeepers have emerged, such as Kahn, Lehmann, Casillas, Dida...... These great goalkeepers were once tied with Gianluigi Buffon as the best goalkeeper of our time, but as time went on, they either retired or fell into decline, and only Gianluigi Buffon remained strong and continued to be regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.

For this alone, Buffon has left everyone else behind, and it can be described as an evergreen tree in today's world football.

Qin Shou is naturally no stranger to this legendary Italian door god, but most of them have heard from friends, or have seen his reports and deeds on the news, and this is the first time they have been in contact with him in reality.

However, Buffon is a senior in football, and he is a legendary player that Qin Shou has long longed for, when he saw Buffon coming over, Qin Shou immediately stopped his warm-up activities, and then quickly greeted him.

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