User:Wikipediæ philosophia/History of Juventus F.C.

Early years
In the late 19th century, football began to take hold throughout Europe. In 1896, some students of the third and fourth class of the Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio in Turin would gather after class around a bench not far from their school, opposite the Platti confectionery, towards what is now Corso Re Umberto, on the corner of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II. They would discuss sport, especially football, and started to play it, so much so that the following year they founded a civil society "for fun, for enjoyment, for desire of novelty". The society's founding date is unknown; conventionally, the date of 1 November 1897 is used. Its first meeting took place was held in the backroom of the Canfari brothers' bicycle workshop, at 42, Corso Re Umberto. During the meeting, there was a vote to decide the name of the society where Sport-Club Juventus was chosen. Enrico Canfari described the vote as follows:

Juventus' first headquarters was located in Via Montevecchio in 1898. However, the increase of members forced it to change its headquarters to 4, Via Piazzi. The following year, Juventus changed name to Foot-Ball Club Juventus. Canfari described the reason for that:

On 11 June 1899, Juventus' first documented friendly match took place, against the representative of the Germano Sommelier Technical Institute.