Why Juventus and Italy Need a Foreign Influence.

Juventus have always been a team that has always chose Italian players over foreigner or Italian coaches over foreigners. During the teams entire existence this philosophy has worked out pretty well for them until the last 4 seasons. After the world cup Italian Football was decimated by scandal and even now to this day new scandal has rose in the Italian game. This scandal has turned the Italian into what I would call boring football. Italian Football has always been on the slower side due to its tactical game but after 2006 it has become dreadful. Juventus are the team that suffered most since 2006 by being relegated, stripped of 2 titles and losing a host of world class players and not to forget there top class coach in Fabio Capello. Since returning to Serie A 3 years ago they have steadily moved up on the tables coming 3rd and then 2nd. After the 2008-09 season Juventus saw fit to replace there coach with another Italian coach and midway through the season they fired that coach and replaced him with another Italian coach. As of now Juventus sit in 7th place 6 points off the final Champions League spot and dont look in any shape of form to come near that last spot.

Juventus's game has become stale and predictable. They are a one dimension team that can not adapt to other styles of play successfully. The most surprising stat of all though is their defensive record. Juventus have always been a team that strives towards defense but this year they have they are tied 4th for the worst defense in the league. Never in my days have I ever heard such a stat linked to Juventus. If Juventus hired a foreign coach I believe they would improve dramatically because in all the major leagues around Europe you are seeing a team brand a football, a fast paced ball moving style of football because of the new generation coming into the teams. These young players seem to all have pace and have a certain flair to them to want to become the next big thing in Football but in Italy you aren't seeing this instead they are fading into a tier 2 league because of this unwillingness to let young players play and not allow foreign influence in there league. Italians are hard headed on their ways and dont like change, why do you think you see the same old players playing for the same team and still starting! Italians have this mind set that your young until your 26, then you can play regularly. With this mind set the Italian game will not last much longer and will eventually lose interest and lose fans which will ultimately mean less money and less expensive players. Italians have always had amazing youth systems, you see it in their U21 international set up. Always the favorites to win the European Championships but for some reason after that event you dont see them anymore until there old because their respective clubs feel them to young and instead of playing them they send them out on loan to a lower seated team to be benches as well or sent to Serie B where they play a bit more then usual. One thing Italians are the best in the world for is wasting young talent.

If Juventus or the league in general started having foreign owners and foreign coaches you will see more interest in the league and more interest from foreign players like the early 90's when Serie A was considered the best league in the world. Until then though Italian football will continue to decline and pretty soon Serie A will turn into no more then a amateur league for retired players who still think they can play with the best.