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Hundreds of fans gathered in front of the Allianz stadium in Turin singing "Ronaldo, bring us the Champions (League)", the deadliest striker of all time in the European competition in front of his team medical Monday.
The 33-year-old came out of the club's medical center to sign autographs and shake hands amid the hoarse chants of his name before heading back inland for further tests.
The winner of the Golden Ball five times will be officially unveiled to world media at a press conference scheduled at 6:30 pm (4:30 pm GMT), during which he will sign a four-year contract which will earn him a reported 30 million euros per season.
Ronaldo fever hit Turin after the announcement last week of its transfer of 100 million euros from European champion Real Madrid, whose Italian reports will cost the Juve a total of 350 million euros.
Many young people who came out to greet their new hero wore Juventus shirts featuring "Ronaldo" and number 7, which were sold like hotcakes in the city.
Others wore t-shirts with the message "Bem-vindo" – "welcome" in Portuguese – that 5,000 merchants wore on posters in the northwestern city of Italy before the arrival of Ronaldo Sunday night.
A Turin glacier even invented a "CR7" cone, consisting of a Portuguese cherry liquor and chocolate chips.
The mood of joy was not universally shared. His expensive signing upset the leaders of a minority union in a car factory in southern Italy owned by Fiat-Chrysler, itself owned by the same holding company as Juventus.
They called for a protest strike on Monday, but only five of the 1,700 factory workers declared themselves in favor of dismissed action as a "cascade" by larger unions representing workers in Melfi, in the region of Basilicata.
Juventus supporters hope that the arrival of Ronaldo will push them to the top step of Europe.
Fresh out of her seventh Serie A title in as many years and four consecutive doubles, the Old Lady of Italian Football fought to turn domestic domination into European success by striving to conquer the Holy Grail of the continent.
"Our hope is to win the Champions League, which for the moment is the only goal we have not managed to conquer," says Francesco, 38, of the Tuscan city of Pisa.
"The coming of Ronaldo will only bring good things to Juventus … He will help others learn things that only champions like him can do."
Ronaldo scored 120 goals in the Champions League, more than anyone in the history of the competition, and has won four of the last five editions with Real Madrid.
Juve has not won the competition since 1996 but reached the finals in 2015 and 2017, where they were respectively beaten by the former Barcelona club and Ronaldo.
Mario, 47, from Brescia in Lombardy, rose at 4:30 (02:30 GMT) to be at the stadium in time to see Ronaldo.
He was at Allianz Stadium for the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinal last season – won 3-0 by Madrid – when Juve fans stood up to applaud the incredible goal of Ronaldo.
The team of Mbadimiliano Allegri has been eliminated from the Champions League by Ronaldo in the last two seasons. The Portuguese scored twice in the 2017 final and were awarded the controversial penalty that thwarted the incredible return of Juve after three goals. down and saw them go out in the quarterfinals.
"I applauded him because he scored a spectacular goal and now we can watch him," Mario explains.
"I went to Cardiff for the final of the Champions League 2017 where he gave us a slap, now he must pay us back with interest."
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