Captain against juve - Who should it be tonite
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:46 ami think carragher
I think it'll be Sami actaully, as he was the team representative at the ceremnoy they held in Turin for the Heysel 39.
In memory of the Heysel
“We were brought here by our wish to remember and honour the Bianconeri friends who were victims of such tragedy and to express to their families solidarity and affection from all the Juventus world”
These were President Franzo Grande Stevens’s words to open the commemoration ceremony that took place this afternoon at Juventus headquarters, to honour the 39 victims who, on May, 29th 1985, tragically lost their lives at the block Z terrace of Heysel Stadium.
The ceremony was held in front of the monument commissioned by Juventus and inaugurated one year later and which has been at the Club headquarter since May, 29th 1986 to remember the 39 victims and their wish for real sport.
The ceremony was attended by: on behalf of Juventus, President Franzo Grande Stevens, Chief Executive Antonio Giraudo, Vice President Roberto Bettega, Director General Luciano Moggi and Commercial Director Romy Gai; on behalf of Liverpool, President David Moores and CEO Rick Parry. Besides the two clubs’ captains, there were Otello Lorentini – President of the permanent Committee against violence in sport “Roberto Lorentini and Giusy Conti” – Raffaele De Santis – President of the Committee of Victims in France and Belgium – Ian Rush, Phil Neal, Giampiero Boniperti and Architect Dante Grassi, who’s the author of the monument.
The President of UEFA Lennart Johansson and Chief Executive Lars-Christer Olsson could not attend the event but they sent a message which was read during the ceremony.
At the end of the ceremony, Del Piero and Hyypia brought a bunch of 39 white roses at the base of the monument.
