Now, Juventus get to face another team other than themselves.
The Old Lady begins the Guinness International Champions Cup against Everton tonight at the ballpark by the Bay, AT&T Park — a place that I may or may not have visited in the past four days for a completely depressing and pathetic baseball game even though my seats were totally awesome. It's the first game in what will be a three-game run in eight days for Juve, who will travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles over the weekend and then to Miami to meet up with the seven other teams and wrap up the tournament on Aug. 7.
With the Supercoppa just a little more than two weeks away, we're getting oh-so-close to when manager Antonio Conte wants his club to start getting into serious game shape (if they haven't gotten there already). And Wednesday night in San Francisco is just another step in that direction, even though a lot of the regular starters might not feature all that much at AT&T. But there's still the fact that they're in preparation stages — not only getting back to prime fitness, but working out the kinks and having the new signings adapt.
And what a better way to give Conte a birthday present that includes one of his favorite things — a win.
