1949–50 Juventus FC season explained

Club:	Juventus Football Club
Season:	1949–50
Manager:	Jesse Carver
Chairman:	Gianni Agnelli
League:	Serie A
League Result:	1st
League Topscorer:	John Hansen (28)^[1]
Season Topscorer:	Giacomo Mari (38)
Stadium:	Stadio Comunale
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Prevseason:	1948–49
Nextseason:	1950–51

During the 1949–50 season Juventus Football Club competed in Serie A.

Summary

The team clinched its 8th title despite a colossal 1–7 home defeat against Milan with a superb hat-trick of Swedish striker Gunnar Nordahl. The championship was a reward to chairman Gianni Agnelli who built this team buying Danish players unknown at the time. In the summer he transferred in an Argentinian midfielder Rinaldo Martino from San Lorenzo to boost the club performance.^[2]

In this season, Jesse Carver replaced fellow Englishman William Chalmers as head coach of Juventus, and a less rigid and physically demanding training schedule paid off for Hansen. In the club, Hansen had an irreplaceable partner in another Danish player from the 1948 Olympics team, Karl Aage Præst. Præst was a left winger with electric dribbling skills who scattered opponents through the field and produced precise crosses to Hansen, who netted them thanks to his violent and accurate headers.^[3] Juventus won the 1949–50 Serie A championship with Hansen scoring 28 goals in 37 games.^[4]

Squad

Source:^[5]

Competitions

Serie A

See main article: 1949–50 Serie A.

Matches

Statistics

Squad statistics

Source:^[6]

Players statistics

Appearances

• 36.Alberto Bertuccelli
• 8.Romolo Bizzotto
• 35.Giampiero Boniperti
• 1.Filippo Cavalli
• 37.John Hansen
• 35.Sergio Manente
• 38.Giacomo Mari
• 1.Amos Mariani
• 33.Rinaldo Martino
• 34.Ermes Muccinelli
• 35.Carlo Parola
• 32.Alberto Piccinini
• 37.Karl Aage Præst
• 6.Pietro Rava
• 3.Ermanno Scaramuzzi
• 37.Giovanni Viola
• 10.Pasquale Vivolo

Goalscorers

• 28.John Hansen
• 21.Giampiero Boniperti
• 18.Rinaldo Martino
• 13.Ermes Muccinelli
• 11.Karl Aage Præst
• 4.Giacomo Mari
• 2.Carlo Parola
• 2.Alberto Piccinini
• 1.Pasquale Vivolo

External links

• Book: Fabrizio Melegari (a cura di).. Almanacco illustrato del calcio - La storia 1898-2004, Modena . Panini, 2004..
• Book: Fabrizio Melegari e Luigi La Rocca. Storia del Campionato Italiano dal 1947-48 al 1949-50; Calciatori 1964-65. edizione speciale per "La Gazzetta dello Sport" Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, Modena, 2005.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Maurizio Mariani. Italy 1949/50. 12 May 1999.
2. News: Jeff Israely. All In The Family. https://web.archive.org/web/20070302121024/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207766-3,00.html. dead. March 2, 2007. TIME. 3. 25 June 2006. 2 April 2011.
3. Book: Lundberg, Knud . Dansk Fodbold . Knud Lundberg. 1. Fra Breslau til Bronceholdet . 1986 . Rhodos . Copenhagen . 87-7245-132-7 . 14–15 .
4. Book: Lundberg, Knud . Dansk Fodbold . Knud Lundberg. 1. Fra Breslau til Bronceholdet . 1986 . Rhodos . Copenhagen . 87-7245-132-7 . 16 .
5. Web site: Stagione 1949/50. myjuve.it.
6. Web site: Maurizio Mariani. Italy 1949/50. 12 May 1999.