Champions: here's Basel
/09 12 2002
Two weeks after the great comeback in La Coruna,
Juventus is ready to play again in the Group D of
Champions League: on Wednesday, for the second day
of the second round of the competition, whiteandblacks
will host Basel, while in Manchester the Red Devils
will host Deportivo. In the Group standings United
is first with three points, while Juventus and Deportivo
have one and Basel none.
Juventus will be back then at Delle Alpi, where in the
first round of the competition won all the three matches
played, without conceding any goal: 5-0 against Dynamo Kiev,
2-0 against Newcastle and 2-0 against Feyenoord. Against
the Swiss team, the goal is to continue this winning tradition.
Basel is one of the revelation of this edition of the Champions
League and will face for the first time whiteandblacks in an
official match.
Basel and Juventus, in fact, met twice in Switzerland in the
60's for the Coppa delle Alpi, with whiteandblacks winners of
both the matches. In the Champions' Cup the Swiss team met
Bologna in the 1968/1969 edition: the Italian team went through.
In its country Basel has won till now nine times the National
Championships and six times the National Cup: last season
redandblues won both the competitions, after a long struggle
against Grassophers, which is also this year the main rival.
Now Basel is second in the National league, two points behind
Grassophers: the league has now stopped for the Winter pause
and will re-start in February.
This year the Swiss team gave its best in Champions League.
In the second preliminary round Basel outscored the Slovakian
Zilinia, before a great performance in the final preliminary
round against Celtic Glasgow: defeated in Scotland 3-1, Basel
gained the qualification beating 2-0 the Scottish team at home.
In the first phase Basel did even better, sending off Liverpool
in Group B and reaching the secon phase with Valencia.
The protagonists of that huge results were the two Argentinian
forwards Julio Hernan Rossi and Christian Gimenez, alongside
Ivan Ergic, young and talented player discovered by Juventus
in Australia, where he grew.
The trainer is Christian Gross, 48 years old, who played mainly
in Swiss teams and, as a trainer, arrived at Basel in 1999,
after having coached for a year the English team of Tottenham
Hotspurs in 1998/1999.
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