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ROME (AFP) – Juventus fans gave Cristiano Ronaldo an enthusiastic welcome on Monday (July 16th) as the club was preparing to unveil the superstar's summer signing, which they say will bring back trophy of the Champions League in Turin. Gathered in front of the Allianz stadium in Turin, they sang "Ronaldo, bring us champions (league)", while the deadliest striker of all time in the European competition made a brief appearance before his review Medical Monday
. A year-old emerged from the club's medical center to sign autographs and shake hands amid the raucous chants of his name before returning to the interior for further tests.
The winner of the Golden Ball will be officially unveiled to media around the world. a press conference scheduled for Monday afternoon, in which he will sign a four-year contract that will bring him 30 million euros ($ 47.8 million) per season.
Ronaldo fever hit Turin after last week's announcement of its € 100 million transfer from Real Madrid's European champion, whose Italian reports will cost 350 million euros. 39 euros to Juve.
Many young people who came to greet their new hero were wearing Juventus shirts with "Ronaldo" and number 7, which was sold like hotcakes in the city.
Others wore t-shirts with the message "Bem-vindo" – "welcome" in Portuguese – that 5,000 merchants put on posters in the northwest Italian city before the arrival of Ronaldo late Sunday
A Turin glacier even invented a "CR7" cone, with a Portuguese cherry liquor and chocolate shavings.
The atmosphere of joy was not universally shared. His expensive signing has upset the leaders of a minority union in a car factory in southern Italy owned by Fiat-Chrysler, in turn owned by the same holding company as Juventus.
They called for a protest strike Monday. 1700 workers declared themselves in favor of the action rejected as a "waterfall" by larger unions representing workers in Melfi, in the region of Basilicata
Supporters of Juventus hope that the arrival from Ronaldo will push them to the highest European table. Fresh out of her seventh Serie A title in as many years and four consecutive doubles, the Old Lady of Italian Football has struggled to turn domestic dominance into European success as they strive to conquering the Holy Grail of the continent
The Champions League is for now the only goal we have not managed to conquer, "says Francesco, 38, of the Tuscan city of Pisa. 19659002] "Ronaldo will only bring good things to Juventus … he'll Ronaldo scored 120 goals in the Champions League, more than anyone else in the history of the competition, and won four of the last five editions with Real Madrid. 19659002] 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 in the morning. He was at the stadium in time to see Ronaldo.
He was at the Allianz stadium for the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final – 3-0 against Madrid – when Juve fans stood up to cheer
The team of Massimiliano Allegri has been eliminated from the Champions League by Ronaldo in the last two seasons. The Portuguese scored twice in the 2017 final and scored the controversial penalty that thwarted an incredible Juve. After losing three goals, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
"I applauded him because he scored a spectacular goal. Now we can have fun watching it, "says Mario.
"I went to Cardiff for the final of the Champions League 2017 where he slapped us. Now he must repay us with interest. "
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