18 January 2023
From the Conference Room of the Allianz Stadium, the first words from Gianluca Ferrero after his appointment as the new Juventus president of Juventus, and Maurizio Scanavino as the club's new CEO.
PRESIDENT GIANLUCA FERRERO
Good morning everyone, today I have assumed the role of President of Juventus with great emotion and with great pride. In this my first public appearance, a thought of deep gratitude goes to the presidents that have preceded me, some of whom I have spent periods of my life with. In particular I would like to thank President Andrea Agnelli, who gave me this beautiful shirt today at the end of the meeting. I hope to live up to it and give it the honour it deserves. Thank you Andrea for this gift and for this surprise.
My first thought as president goes to the fans of this team, fans who have always been its strength and heart. In the meeting, but also previously, I've had the opportunity to meet and talk to some of them and I found them full of doubt and fear, worried about the future of our club and team. I want to be very clear. When I made this commitment, I took it with the idea of giving my best. Together with the Board of Directors elected today and the new Chief Executive Officer, we will work to build a future for Juventus that is worthy of its past, a glorious past spanning 125 years that has led this club to sporting glory and to become the strongest Italian football club.
When I speak about Juventus, I am talking about all of Juventus, those that work on the pitch and those that work off the pitch. As you know, challenges await us in the coming months and that we as the Board of Directors believe we have the experience, competence and determination to defend Juventus and our team in front all the competent institutions, whether criminal, sporting or civil. We will do it with determination and rigour, we will also do it calmly and without any form of arrogance. We have always respected and will always respect all those called on to judge us, but what we want is equal respect for us, for the club and for our team, to be able to discuss with seriousness and rigour in front of the competent institutions the motivation behind our actions. With this I thank you and give the floor to Maurizio.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MAURIZIO SCANAVINO
I will guarantee maximum commitment to Juventus and I want to make available all the experience I have gained. These two months as CEO have been very intense and I'd also like to take the opportunity to thank my colleagues for their availability. I have found highly motivated, highly capable people, who work with great passion, as well as a series of projects already underway for the near future, but also with a longer timeframe.
When I talk about people, I'm talking about the best-known people at the club, such as the coach or the sporting director, but also all the others who work in the club's other activities. And when I talk about projects, for the sporting area I want to mention Next Gen, which is proving to be an extraordinary and very strategic project, already able to feed talent to the first team and, from what they tell me, and which can be seen, there are many other players coming through the youth system that are ready to blossom.
There are many projects outside the sporting field as well. The main objective is to expand the Juventus fanbase, on an international scale and among the youth. We think that important goals can be achieved by leveraging Juventus history and identity. The sporting and corporate objectives remain unchanged, this too is part of the history of Juventus, which has always known how to combine success on the pitch with sustainability and commercial results and we will also aim to continue to do this.
