On Thursday 1 February 2024, an event was held at Vinovo as part of the Juventus Studium training programme, which kicked off in 2020 and has resumed this season with the regular participation of high-profile speakers from the football world and beyond.
The event on Thursday featured none other than Massimiliano Allegri as the guest speaker, who was introduced by Chief of Staff, Federico Cherubini. The men’s first-team coach met the coaching staff working with young male and female players in the press room at the Training Center in Vinovo, kicking off his speech with the impressive project involving Next Gen, previously known as the under-23s, and connecting it with the careful management of the transition from the under-19s into the first team.
Allegri spoke about the difference that he has experienced first-hand as Juventus coach in relation to the step up from Primavera youth football to the first-team squad before and after the creation of the under-23s and he highlighted the positive differences that have been triggered by the inception of the under-23s.
Several other topics were covered as well, from the focus on talent to the importance of the discipline that every Juventus player needs to have, which Allegri focused on in particular, given that there can be no shortage of discipline from the youngest youth team all the way up to the first team at a club like Juventus. It is an area that makes the club unique and different from the rest.
To sum up, it was a wonderful morning of sport and sporting culture, which concluded with Gianluca Pessotto giving Allegri a present on behalf of everyone at the event including the message “We’re ever so grateful to you for supporting us in developing our young players”.