Grande Torino 2.0

Grande Torino!

They haven't shown much in the last three or four decades, but they are one of the most successful Italian teams when it comes to youth: they've won Serie A Primavera (a competition to Olympic format: U21 plus a couple of dispensation-players) the most of all teams ( 9x).

I remember them mostly for the UEFA Cup finals (home and away) against Ajax, back in 1992: the first leg in Turin was an absolute cracker! Italian football was at its absolute peak back then: Milan, Sampdoria or Juventus - the Italian champions went almost automatically to the Europa Cup final, so to get the edge on them (on away goals, no less) was both a miracle as well as the start of the Golden Age of Ajax, where each and every time Ajax had the better of an Italian side until the døped up 1996 team of Juventus stopped us in the Champions League final. Because of that, Ajax shares good memories with Torino and bad ones with the city rival.