Juventus and Fiorentina are two Italian teams steeped in illustrious elegance and darkly dwellings. They have graced the game with fantastic players, both domestically and at international level, have both been punished and had tarnished reputations with match-fixing in the Calciopoli scandal, and now are both again at the top of Serie A fighting for glory and honours. It has been a credit to the strength and quality of both clubs that their returns have been welcome and swift.

Both teams not only employ world superstars like Alessandro Del Piero, Pavel Nedved, Amauri, Adrian Mutu, Alberto Gilardino and Sebastian Frey, but have also produced some fantastic, young Italian internationals, in Sebastian Giovinco and Riccardo Montolivo.

When thinking about the players who have graced both shirts, the list includes some of the most impressive Serie A names. Of course the most prominent and important is Baggio, but others such as Angelo Di Livio (the man whose loyalty most inspired Fiorentina’s rise from Serie C), Moreno Torricelli, and contemporary protagonists such as Adrian Mutu and Giorgio Chiellini can be included too.

Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by Dan
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