Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Getting To Know Villarreal
Friday night at 20:45hrs at the Arechi stadium in Salerno, Juventus will be busy playing a friendly against Spanish side Villareal. The “yellow submarine”, as it is called in Spain due to the colour of its home jersey, is the third Spanish team which Ferrara’s team will be meeting this pre-season after Seville and Real Madrid, which were both beaten by 2-1.
Villareal has risen to the football top teams in the last ten years, since it won the promotion to the Primera Division in 1998. In just a few years, the team became one of the most important in Spain, thanks to the transfer market managed by Fernando Roig, who managed to sign important players spending very little on the South American market, starting from former Juventus player Juan Pablo Sorin who joined Villareal in 2006, Brazilian born and Spanish citizenship holder Marcos Senna as well as promising youngsters like Giuseppe Rossi who has become a strong point of the Italian national team.
Villareal took little time to establish itself in Europe, qualifying for the UEFA Cup which it eventually lost in the derby of the Valencia community against Rafa Benitez’s Valencia in 2004.
That same season ended however, memorably for the team from the province of Castellòn, who ended the Liga in third place thus qualifying for the Champions League for the first time. The best result obtained in the top European competition was the final which the team lost against Arsenal in 2006.
Villareal finished the 2008-2009 season in 5th place, qualifying for the Europa League.
Juventus.com
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