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...managed to contain the violence inside by retrofitting stadiums American style, with assigned seats instead of terraces for standing, and by offering more season-ticket plans. Yet the learning curve has been tragic. A brutal 1985 melee in Brussels, in which Liverpool fans charged at supporters of Italy's Juventus, left 39 people dead in the panic. Nearly 100 fans died in a crowd-control disaster in Sheffield...
...million?or nearly a third?of all its supporters live in Asia. So, in 2000, the club opened its first Asian store, in Singapore, hawking everything from player figurines to cell-phone straps. Crosstown rivals Man City now have shops in China, while European clubs AC Milan, Barcelona and Juventus have each opened boutiques in Tokyo...
Elkann's duties now are centered at the company's investment group, IFIL, which has broadened its holdings to include banking, retail and ownership of Turin's soccer team, Juventus. But the core of the business is still cars, and that is where Elkann's mettle will be tested. Fiat saw its share of the Italian auto market fall from 60% to 39% in the late 1990s, before striking a stock-swap deal with General Motors in 2000. Fiat needs to reaffirm the brand at home and expand abroad. That was perhaps Gianni Agnelli's greatest achievement--and could...
...Juventus (Italy) €30 million; two players from Parma - Marco Di Vaio and Stephen Appiah - are among the five roster additions...
...club Manchester United, probably the most valuable sports franchise in the world (about $1 billion), has planted its flag in America during a four-city exhibition tour that saw Man U matched against some of Europe's glamour teams, including Glasgow Celtic from Scotland (a 4-0 win), and Juventus from Italy (4-1). According to promoters, it took only one hour for Man U to sell out its Aug. 3 game against Barcelona at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field. Likewise for its Giants Stadium appearance against Juventus. All this without the flamboyantly blond David Beckham, auctioned off to Real...