Juventus Training Center (Vinovo)
Vinovo | |
Location | Vinovo |
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Coordinates | 44°58′40″N 07°36′58″E / 44.97778°N 7.61611°E |
Owner | Juventus F.C. |
Type | Football training facility |
Capacity | 400 |
Construction | |
Broke ground | 2004 |
Opened | 2006 |
Construction cost | € 12.5 million |
The Juventus Training Center (colloquially known as "the Vinovo") is a football training facility owned by Juventus, located in Vinovo a comune 14 kilometres southwest of the city of Turin. Designed by GAU and Shesa,[1] the training ground features modern facilities and was opened in August 2006. The facility measures a total of 162,900 square meters and originally cost € 12.5 million.
Owned through Campi di Vinovo S.p.A., controlled by the club to 71.3% until 2003,[2] until 2018, it was used as a training ground for the Juventus men's team until the construction of the new training center;[3] it is now exclusively used for the matches and training for that of the Juventus youth sector (already from 2017), and that of the women's team.[4]
Facilities
The training area includes:[5][6]
- eleven regular playing fields (nine in natural grass and two in synthetic grass), of which:
- one of reduced size;
- one with a mobile pressostatic cover, used in case of cold and bad weather;
- the "Campo Ale & Ricky" (dedicated to the memory of Alessio Ferramosca and Riccardo Neri, youths of the young bianconeri who drowned in a facility pond[7][8]), with a 400-seat grandstand, reserved for matches of Juventus Women and of all the Juventus youth sector;
- a swimming pool that allows counter-current swimming and hydro massage;
- a physiotherapy center;
- a gym for heating and muscle building;
- soccer tennis;
- seven locker rooms for competitive sports (one for Juventus Women and six for youth teams);
- two warehouses.
The media center includes:
- a hotel of about 350 m²;
- a sports medicine center;
- a room for technical meetings;
- the JTV television studios;
- the press room, which can accommodate up to 30 journalists, for press conferences.
References
Notes
- ^ (in Italian) Gallery Project: Juventus Center - www.studiogau.it.
- ^ (CONSOB 2007:47, 107)
- ^ "Il primo allenamento al JTC!" (in Italian). juventus.com.
- ^ "Women, prime corse alla Continassa!" (in Italian). juventus.com. 16 March 2018.
- ^ "Centro allenamenti Juventus" (PDF) (in Italian). studiogau.it.
- ^ "Prospetto informativo OPV 2007" (PDF) (in Italian). consob.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-10.
- ^ "Ranieri lancia il turn over, ecco Trezeguet e Amauri" (in Italian). la Repubblica. 12 September 2008.
- ^ "Tragedia al centro bianconero, muoiono due giovani della Berretti" (in Italian). 15 December 2006.
Other publications
- "Prospetto informativo OPV 24 maggio 2007" (PDF) (in Italian). Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2007.
External links
- [1] (in English, Italian, Chinese, Indonesian, and Japanese)