Juventus Training Center (Vinovo)

The Juventus Training Center (colloquially known as "the Vinovo") is a football training facility owned by Juventus, located in Vinovo a comune 14 kilometres southwest of the city of Turin. Designed by GAU and Shesa,[1] the training ground features modern facilities and was opened in August 2006. The facility measures a total of 162,900 square meters and originally cost €12.5 million.

Owned through Campi di Vinovo S.p.A., controlled by the club to 71.3% until 2003,[2] until 2018, it was used as a training ground for the Juventus men's team until the construction of the new training center;[3] it is now exclusively used for the matches and training for that of the Juventus youth sector (already from 2017), and that of the women's team.[4]

Facilities

The training area includes:[5][6]

The media center includes:

• eleven regular playing fields (nine in natural grass and two in synthetic grass), of which:
• one of reduced size;
• one with a mobile pressostatic cover, used in case of cold and bad weather;
• the "Campo Ale & Ricky" (dedicated to the memory of Alessio Ferramosca and Riccardo Neri, youths of the young bianconeri who drowned in a facility pond[7][8]), with a 400-seat grandstand, reserved for matches of Juventus Women and of all the Juventus youth sector;
• a swimming pool that allows counter-current swimming and hydro massage;
• a physiotherapy center;
• a gym for heating and muscle building;
• soccer tennis;
• seven locker rooms for competitive sports (one for Juventus Women and six for youth teams);
• two warehouses.

• a hotel of about 350 m2;
• a sports medicine center;
• a room for technical meetings;
• the JTV television studios;
• the press room, which can accommodate up to 30 journalists, for press conferences.

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