Well, supporting your club/team in the bad moments (playing in Serie B for your case) is what makes you a real fan. If you support your club only in the good moments then you're nothing more than a gloryhunter.
I had the opportunity to talk with a lot of Juve fans and most of them were arrogant and under-estimating Barcelona, only talking about divers/cheaters/uefalona and all this bullshit. When I went to many juve forums to also read the general opinion , I find the same reactions ; arrogance and lack of respect towards FCB.
Not saying that you're all the same, because we also have a lot of disrespectful fans, but "what your fans have been through in the last 10 years" isn't an excuse.
I never liked your club nor Italian football in general (apart from AC Milan), I have a very bad image of Italy after what happened against France in 2006. However, I respect your club and your team, and will definitely congratulate you on Saturday if you deservedly win the game.
True that, but I think that most of our fans are those who have been trough those dark times, I mean lets be honest, before this CL Final the world would have slighted Juventus. Our exposure on International Competitions had been very poor until now. Most of the new fans or gloryhunters wouldn't have put an eye on our team, specially since everybody seems to think that our Championships are bought and that the Serie A is awful. Our market must be pretty slim compared to teams who have had recent international success such as Barcelona. This year a lot of people must have jumped in the boat, as they did with Borussia or Atlético on previous years, that's for sure.
I guess that's the world's perspective of Barcelona, just as the world perceives us as cheaters because of the Calciopoli. Stupid stereotypes that keep being perpetuated unfounded. We should just ignore those kind of comments. Personally I'm pretty positive towards the final, I believe that Marchisio is better than Busquets, Vidal is better than Rakitic and Pogba is better than Iniesta at the moment, that our defense is pretty solid and that our attack could give you trouble, I don't think that's arrogant or disrespectful. Deluded? Probably you could call me that if you see things different. One of our fans saying that we'd make it to the final would have been called deluded too. Taking into account what must of us have been trough in the last 10 years, as I said before, give us the right to at least be positive about the game and be happy to be in the final against a side like Barcelona.
Thankfully I can say the same about Barcelona, personally I don't like the team, I do love Messi and Iniesta and think highly of Neymar, but as a team you're not my favorite, I like you better than Real Madrid at least
. But I do respect the club. If we lose probably I'll be mad and curse against your team, but I guess that's just expected from every other fan in a Champions League Final. I still hope we win, Buffon lifting the CL trophy in the same stadium he lifted the WC 9 years before after all the shit he has been trough would be a dream for every Juventus fan, seems like fairy tale.
See, things like the one bellow are way more disrespectful in my opinion. Real Madrid fans did this same sort of stuff, but I don't really mind it.
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