Stekelenburg reveals Juventus contact and backs Enrique: Serie A news
A.S http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gianluigi-Buffon-c14833 during his Ajax days.
Buffon came close to leaving the Turin giants before the 2009/10 season and the club contacted several keepers to find a replacement. However, the Italian international was convinced to stay with the Old Lady and they never came
in for Stekelenburg again.
“There was a time in the past when it was thought that Gigi Buffon would leave Juventus. That was when I was contacted by the club, but nothing ever came of it.”
Roma will host Juventus in their next league game at the Stadio Olimpico Rome on Monday, December, 12, 2011 and the Giallorossi stopper is ready to take on the league leaders. The Dutch international joined the capital club from
Ajax in the summer transfer window. The 29-year-old spent almost 10 years at the Dutch club and admitted that he wanted to play abroad and was tempted by the Roma project.
“I wanted to have an experience abroad and the Roma project was an intriguing one,”
Roma have got off to a slow start in the 2011/12 season and have picked up only 17 points in 13 games played thus far. Manager, Luis Enrique, is under severe criticism and the fans have started to lose patience with him. However,
Stekelenburg has backed the former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 B coach and insisted that he is working really hard with the team and the players are behind him. The stopper is confident that the project will be successful in the future and believes that a win against Juventus
will get them moving in the right direction.
“He is a passionate guy. You should see how carefully he works during the week and the relationship he has established with the team. We are coming off the back of two defeats, but we played with 10 men for most of the game in
Florence.”
The Dutchman injured himself in a horrible collision with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lucio-c22597, in the second week of the season and had to miss a handful of matches. Stekelenburg has made only six appearances this season.
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